Apple Announces Release of Safari 5 with Extensions - But Where Is It?

[zztype]

Ditto for me. Upgrade completely killed Safari, now using Firefox. 10.5.8, Dual G5 2.0 gHz, 4 gb RAM. Went looking for older versions, but all now point to Safari 5 download. Anybody?

Safari 5 won't display any web page and keeps crashing for me.

Mac OS X 10.5.8, MacBook Pro 2,53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

PLEASE, anybody have a link to downgrade?

Thanks!

 

[MotleyPete]

Ditto for me. Upgrade completely killed Safari, now using Firefox. 10.5.8, Dual G5 2.0 gHz, 4 gb RAM. Went looking for older versions, but all now point to Safari 5 download. Anybody?

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Do you have any addons or plugins installed? They are the usual culprits for this kind of behaviour.

 

[Stridder44]

It's not you only... This was announced as the number one new feature by Apple... Something no other browser has... Isn't it amaaaazzing?

All joke aside... you're for real?

Are you for real? What are you, 10 years old? We're all just making observations here, and he's right, the gradient did change.

Bull***t.

I can upgrade the firmware for the NIC and SCSI/SAS controllers, and their drivers, on my Windows systems without requiring a reboot.

It's pretty sad if OSX makes you reboot for an application library update.

Yeah dude I can totally see how waiting those 30 seconds for your Mac to restart could really hinder your ability to live a normal life.

A direct comparison is DirectX update, which many system apps depend on to draw images. If you were to update DirectX, you will be required to reboot as well.

While 100% agree with the rest of your post, this part isn't exactly true. If you download the DirectX installer (which checks every file and brings anything outdated up to the latest version), it does not need a restart. I've done this countless times (albeit, only in Windows 7/Vista) because for whatever reason, Microsoft doesn't want your OS to have the latest DX version (or even offer it in Windows Update, even as an optional update), and never once has it required a restart. If you have Windows, run the updater to see for yourself.

 

[mavix]

You could try /Library/Applications Support/SIMBL/Plugins or ~/Library/Applications Support/SIMBL/Plugins and see what's installed in there.

No, I don't even have a SIMBL folder on my Applications Support. And I can't remember installing any plugin for Safari. This is so frustrating...

 

[ViViDboarder]

Are you for real? What are you, 10 years old? We're all just making observations here, and he's right, the gradient did change.





Yeah dude I can totally see how waiting those 30 seconds for your Mac to restart could really hinder your ability to live a normal life.

Still, it shouldn't require a reboot. Ubuntu rarely does. Oh well. Not a big deal though, just silly.

 

[MotleyPete]

No, I don't even have a SIMBL folder on my Applications Support. And I cna't remember installing any plugin for Safari. This is so frustrating...

Ah, ok then. Just thought I'd mention it.

Good luck.

 

[Mal]

Still, it shouldn't require a reboot. Ubuntu rarely does. Oh well. Not a big deal though, just silly.

It's an update to WebKit, which is a core system component and is used by a wide variety of applications (Dashboard, Mail, Help Viewer). Makes sense, even though I'd rather not have to reboot either (it was good for me, I discovered some issues when I did).

jW

 

[Stridder44]

Go to a site like arstechnica or engadget and once you click an article look in the address bar for a 'reader' button to appear. Click that and it will display that article in reader mode.

Oh wow, that's awesome. I mean I knew about the Reader thing, but I wasn't aware it would load multiple pages. So while this article is actually 3 pages long, opening the Reader will load all 3 pages at once so you simple scroll down to view them all. AWESOME Such a time saver (and potentially bandwidth too if you're on a really slow network).

 

[Ramvolter]

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[AdeFowler]

Tabs on Top here also. No setting for it. Some ppl are just lucky(?)

Some people just lie through their teeth

 

[GGJstudios]

wow tabs on top are back.

Tabs on Top here also. No setting for it. Some ppl are just lucky(?)

Screen capture (including "About Safari" window), or it didn't happen.

 

[jimmyjoemccrow]

All those people linking readability as a similar app weren't far off the mark:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/08/safari_reader_based_on_open_source_project/

 

[Mac.]

Anyone know a good AD-BLOCKER that will work with this?

 

[Dale Sorel]

Dang, I'm going to revert back to Safari 4.1

Ditto for me. Upgrade completely killed Safari, now using Firefox. 10.5.8, Dual G5 2.0 gHz, 4 gb RAM. Went looking for older versions, but all now point to Safari 5 download. Anybody?

That's something I've been trying to figure out... where can you download older versions of Safari?

 

[Ramvolter]

Screen capture (including "About Safari" window), or it didn't happen.

Ok, i was mistaken...I blame the fact that i don't use Safari.

 

[Weaselboy]

Anyone know a good AD-BLOCKER that will work with this?

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/32851/safari-adblocker

Safari Adblocker works.

http://safariadblock.com/

Also, the same dev that made Adblock for Chrome has ported over a version for Safari extensions.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Ok, i was mistaken...

No you weren't. You're just one of those posters.

 

[jimmyjoemccrow]

Anyone know a good AD-BLOCKER that will work with this?

glimmerblocker

 

[MikhailT]

While 100% agree with the rest of your post, this part isn't exactly true. If you download the DirectX installer (which checks every file and brings anything outdated up to the latest version), it does not need a restart. I've done this countless times (albeit, only in Windows 7/Vista) because for whatever reason, Microsoft doesn't want your OS to have the latest DX version (or even offer it in Windows Update, even as an optional update), and never once has it required a restart. If you have Windows, run the updater to see for yourself.

Interesting because it did ask to reboot for me. Maybe it was something else. I'll check next time.

 

[creator2456]

http://safariextensions.tumblr.com/

List of all extensions currently available.

Already installed the Youtube HTML5 Fullscreen one and it works great. Can't wait for more to come.

 

[Mac.]

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/32851/safari-adblocker

Safari Adblocker works.

http://safariadblock.com/

Also, the same dev that made Adblock for Chrome has ported over a version for Safari extensions.

glimmerblocker

Thanks both!

Does this happen to anyone else?

I click the "Download" button on a website, and instead of the download starting immediately, it opens up a new tab, the page loads up and then nothing happens...

I have to right-click "Download Linked-File" to actually download it!

 

[MikhailT]

http://safariextensions.tumblr.com/

List of all extensions currently available.

Already installed the Youtube HTML5 Fullscreen one and it works great. Can't wait for more to come.

Note, you can double click the file (.safariextz files) to install it. No need to go to the Extensions setting to drop it in. Also the extensions work on new tabs/windows, you have to refresh all the previous tabs to get the extensions to work on it.

 

[Poncho]

Crash city here. Reckon it's new version of Tasty Apps conflicting with new version of 1Password or something.

 

[Weaselboy]

Thanks both!

Does this happen to anyone else?

I click the "Download" button on a website, and instead of the download starting immediately, it opens up a new tab, the page loads up and then nothing happens...

I have to right-click "Download Linked-File" to actually download it!

I just tried it and it DL normally for me without the problem you are seeing.

 

[benthewraith]

Did not see the refresh button when right-clicking. Page scrolling is rough.