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

Interestingly enough, Safari 5 scores higher than Chrome 5 in the updated HTML5Test.com (208 vs 142).
Not that these tests matter that much anyway, they're both great browsers sporting the same rendering engine.
 
Seriously!!!! Go through this every time I restart Safari. Overall a very disappointing release. Can't wait for them to fix it to get me back to where I was in 4.x


TheQuestion said:
For those having netflix issues, try this per the apple support forums

"The customer service rep talked me through this temporary fix:

1 - Activate the Develop menu in Safari and switch the User Agent to Safari 4.1 (Safari will auto-reload the page once you do this)
2 - (if logged in to Netflix) Log out of Netflix and then log back in under older User Agent.
3 - Netflix streams again!

Notes:
(1) Customer Service Rep said I would have to do this each time I re-start Safari because the User Agent setting defaults back to auto when Safari starts.
(2) I also noticed that the User Agent setting is only for the current tab (I browse using several tabs)...just FYI for everyone."

Thanks to all!
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I'm thinking of ditching firefox for a while and staying with Safari...how do I migrate my book marks to safari?
 
Dale Sorel said:
That's something I've been trying to figure out... where can you download older versions of Safari?
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You're kidding, right... all the smart, cool folks on this board and no one can tell me where I can download older versions of Safari?
 
iDarbert said:
Interestingly enough, Safari 5 scores higher than Chrome 5 in the updated HTML5Test.com (208 vs 142).
Not that these tests matter that much anyway, they're both great browsers sporting the same rendering engine.
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Really? My results were:

Safari5 : 208 and 7 bonus points

Chrome5: 197 and 7 bonus points

Firefox 3.6: 139 and 4 bonus points.

This is all on a Mac.
 
Dale Sorel said:
You're kidding, right... all the smart, cool folks on this board and no one can tell me where I can download older versions of Safari?
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You can't, why do you think Apple released new versions of Safari in the first place? To get people to use them and scrap the older versions, because the newer versions are better, depending on who you ask.
 
iWonderwhy said:
You can't, why do you think Apple released new versions of Safari in the first place? To get people to use them and scrap the older versions, because the newer versions are better, depending on who you ask.
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So I guess everyone's comparisons of the old and new are based on memory. Unless you kept a copy before updating.
 
This is a fabulous update, much faster. I have no idea how something that has been around for a long time was suddenly made so much faster. It is a pleasure to use and I really what the motivation would be to get an earlier version. I was on here for hours just zipping round the www cuz it was actually fun.

Not a fan of ATT unphones, but this is good stuff.
 
Mac. said:
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!

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I had that once, it was a problem with Speed Download.
If you had that installed, use the official uninstaller.
 
I've been a harsh critic of Apple lately, but I have to say I've yet been able to crash this version of SAFARI.

5.0 rocks in my opinion.

And I tested on various PowerPC and INTEL Macs.
Maybe all my crash reports have paid off after all this time. :)

And it is so much faster.

The need for Google Chrome is diminished now in my opinion, at least on Macs.
I just don't see how Google can compete in the browser market with Safari being faster and Chrome including spyware.

I'll admit I've not yet tested Safari 5.0 on a PC yet. I can only run so many computers at once! LOL
but I'll try to post my results later today.

But so far I'm lovin SAFARI 5.0

PS: At one point, I had switched to WEBKIT betas and I periodically used FIREFOX, but I don't think that's necessary anymore. This version of Safari is especially wicked fast on Powerpc Macs.
I'm amazed.

Thank you Apple. :)

PPS: BUT BRING BACK THE SNAPBACK FEATURE DAMNIT!
Am I the only person in the world who loved that feature?
 
iWonderwhy said:
Really? My results were:

Safari5 : 208 and 7 bonus points

Chrome5: 197 and 7 bonus points

Firefox 3.6: 139 and 4 bonus points.

This is all on a Mac.
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The test must've been updated again, I get the same score as you do with Google Chrome now :)
 
What's the difference between safari allowing extensions and the 1password extension I've been using in Safari forever? Are they just providing a support system they didn't before, or am I confused on what an extension is? It seems that they've been around for awhile.
 
msw123307 said:
What's the difference between safari allowing extensions and the 1password extension I've been using in Safari forever? Are they just providing a support system they didn't before, or am I confused on what an extension is? It seems that they've been around for awhile.
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The way extensions were provided before was through SIMBL, which basically hacks into Cocoa applications.
This new extension system works directly from inside Safari, is officially supported by Apple and is "cleaner".
 
Dale Sorel said:
You're kidding, right... all the smart, cool folks on this board and no one can tell me where I can download older versions of Safari?
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Safari 4.0.5 from Apple's support site:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL877

What's the best way to replace 5, there's no uninstaller, and 4.0.5 won't install over top of the newer version.

(For me, 5 is crashing every time I click on a pdf link)

edit: maybe it's Adobe pdf viewer plugin?
 
gesundheit said:
Safari 4.0.5 from Apple's support site:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL877

What's the best way to replace 5, there's no uninstaller, and 4.0.5 won't install over top of the newer version.

(For me, 5 is crashing every time I click on a pdf link)

edit: maybe it's Adobe pdf viewer plugin?
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That's not a full copy of Safari 4. It's only an update, which requires that Safari 4 already be installed. You can't update Safari 5 to 4.0.5.
 
Installed S5 on my work PC/XP Pro. Much, much better than previous version for Windows. It even looks like the MacOSX version now. I will replace FF as my default browser.

One thing I'm missing though is some extension or add-on that can resize the window similar to IE Developer or FF Developer toolbar option have. Anybody knows of such an add-on?
 
gesundheit said:
Safari 4.0.5 from Apple's support site:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL877
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Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.

What's the best way to replace 5, there's no uninstaller, and 4.0.5 won't install over top of the newer version.
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I just used Pacifist to put Safari.app onto my desktop.

GGJstudios said:
That's not a full copy of Safari 4. It's only an update, which requires that Safari 4 already be installed. You can't update Safari 5 to 4.0.5.
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It is a full copy of Safari 4.0.5 (6531.22.7). As I said, just use Pacifist to extract Safari.app wherever you want.

Now I can compare the two side by side :)
 
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