Apple Releases Safari 12 for macOS Sierra and macOS High Sierra

[RossoNunzio]

I'm on it... thanks so much for the help.

can you see the update of Safari in software update? I have the same mac yours with 10.3.6 just put but I do not see update for safari and I wanted to avoid installing pkg not taken directly from the Apple site.

 

[Weaselboy]

can you see the update of Safari in software update? I have the same mac yours with 10.3.6 just put but I do not see update for safari and I wanted to avoid installing pkg not taken directly from the Apple site.

Yep... it came up as an update in the App Store app for me.

 

[RossoNunzio]

Yep... it came up as an update in the App Store app for me.

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Thanks ... I solved with a logout from macAppStore which is one of the worst macos apps on the High Sierra.

 

[Peter_M]

Adblock plus just released a compatible extension for safari

available on the App Store

Yes, I can confirm that it now works again.

 

[DotCom2]

Adblock plus just released a compatible extension for safari

available on the App Store

Thank you for posting this.
Just installed and works fine!

 

[MacSince1985]

Safari now suffers from the same color management as Chrome. Colors are over-saturated on wide gamut displays. Time to switch to Firefox if I don't want to go blind.

 

[ItWasNotMe]

Broke the BBC.co.uk website for me, my main site for news and sport. All the following work perfectly in previous Safari and current Chrome:

• Randomly forgets my login when starting Safari, so often I now need to log-in again
• Randomly forgets my login when opening a new tab from an already logged-in page
• Generally loses entries when I post on the bulletin boards
• A few times gave message about undefined variable (or similar), immediately revisiting the same page its then fine
• Loses about 25% of embedded jpg images, either works perfectly or loses most of those on a page

This applied to previous version of Safari as well, Chrome always works fine

• 50/50 whether it beach-balls if I try to play embedded video clips

So, just changed my default browsing habits...

 

[nevilleward]

[*]Improves security by discontinuing support for most NPAPI plug-ins

This is what I am having trouble with - one of the systems I use regularly is in Silverlight. But, Silverlight no longer even shows up in "Plug-Ins". I downloaded and re-installed a few times before I realized Apple had broke it on me.

Any suggestions? From my understanding, Silverlight is not actively supported anymore by Microsoft.

 

[Peter_M]

Broke the BBC.co.uk website for me, my main site for news and sport. All the following work perfectly in previous Safari and current Chrome:

• Randomly forgets my login when starting Safari, so often I now need to log-in again
• Randomly forgets my login when opening a new tab from an already logged-in page
• Generally loses entries when I post on the bulletin boards
• A few times gave message about undefined variable (or similar), immediately revisiting the same page its then fine
• Loses about 25% of embedded jpg images, either works perfectly or loses most of those on a page

This applied to previous version of Safari as well, Chrome always works fine

• 50/50 whether it beach-balls if I try to play embedded video clips

So, just changed my default browsing habits...

Look on the bright side though, BBC's journalism is pretty biased and weak (with a few exceptions ofc). Better to read something else anyway.

I've always found various issues here and there with Safari, if you want something that "always" work, go with Firefox or Chrome. Safari is still my go-to web browser, mostly out of habit I guess.

 

[ItWasNotMe]

Look on the bright side though, BBC's journalism is pretty biased and weak (with a few exceptions ofc). Better to read something else anyway.

I've always found various issues here and there with Safari, if you want something that "always" work, go with Firefox or Chrome. Safari is still my go-to web browser, mostly out of habit I guess.

So much for standards though that Chrome and Safari don't even lay out the same page in the same manner. For example Live cricket, Safari shows refreshing scores alongside refreshing text, whereas Chrome shows one or the other. So were it reliable I'd prefer Safari but it breaks so often I increasingly use Chrome..

Now off topic:

Agree with the journalism comment though, BBC trying to reinvent itself as social media rather than serious commentary. Also has dual (or triple or more) standards on quoting web-links; covers its pages in Twitter links you can't opt out of and then may or may not moderate out your comment if you include a link, even when its a link to one of the Twitter items that its put on its page.

 

[jordii]

Is there any alternative for Sessions Safari Extension?
I didn't realise Safari 12 does not support this extension...

I reverted to Safari 11 for this reason.

SafariRestore looks like it might do the trick. Would you mind reporting back if you do try it?
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I'm guessing this would make me lose (access to) my Sessions data? May have to delay the upgrade until later.

Improves security by only supporting legacy Safari Extensions that have been reviewed by Apple

I downgraded to Safari 11 because of this, but it looks like SessionRestore might be the solution. Please report back if you try it!

 

[fmalloy]

[*]Improves security by discontinuing support for most NPAPI plug-ins

Security is so tight now that Apple will no longer even let me view my own security IP camera because the web page viewer relies on an H.264 plug-in that is now suddenly unsupported. Gee, thanks for looking after me!

I guess Apple is being the ultimate helicopter parent - telling you what you can and can't view.

Pretty soon Safari will be locked down so tight that you won't be able to access any web site except store.apple.com.

But it's for YOUR protection.

 

[DrBrush]

Breaks Zotero, which is an online reference management system. Zotero say that they will (cannot?) comply with the requirements Apple puts into Safari and therefore recommend that everyone that uses Zotero moves away from Safari to FireFox or Chrome.

Well done Apple.

 

[bestlaw]

I reverted to Safari 11 for this reason.

SafariRestore looks like it might do the trick. Would you mind reporting back if you do try it?

I think the name is changed to "Session Restore".
You can download it from https://safari-extensions.apple.com
I tried this extension for two days.
I would say "Sessions" is more user friendly. The interface is more clear and easy to use.
Function of "Session Restore" is similar to "Sessions".
For example, in Settings you can check "Autosave session every x minutes" and "Open Sessions page on startup.
However, if you want to edit (drag/remove) the hyperlinks in each session that you saved, you need to right click your mouse to click "SessionRestore Edit" first.
"Session Restore" can at least fulfil my needs so I won't revert to Safari 11. It's too time consuming.
I think you can install these 2 extensions and compare to see if you can accept "Session Restore" or not.

 

[fmalloy]

Breaks Zotero, which is an online reference management system. Zotero say that they will (cannot?) comply with the requirements Apple puts into Safari and therefore recommend that everyone that uses Zotero moves away from Safari to FireFox or Chrome.

Well done Apple.

The hubris of Apple is unbelievable. To completely eliminate plug-ins and extensions, and just expect/demand everyone to comply is disgusting. Truly the 900lb gorilla.

I wish someone would come along and completely change the WiFi standard, Bluetooth standard, and LTE protocols and just tell Apple to "deal with it".

 

[KGB7]

I’m highly surprised, Apple doesn’t provide a proper adblocker in Safari. Or as an add on option.

 

[Peter_M]

Hmm, it seems all the free adblockers don't block various ads anymore in Safari. Was this done on purpose by Apple? So now I need to buy an Adblocker, that might not even work properly - judging by the free ones.
This was the final straw for me, I'm now using Firefox instead.

 

[vishkash]

dear friend,
please help me to solve this problem
I am using MacBook Pro [early 2011]
Internal
Sata internal physical disk 500.11gb
-Machintosh 249.7gb

*the problem is that i made partition for windows 10 (249gb) and i ERASED IT.
-now if i tried to create partiton i cant able to do/
=can u pls give some idea??????

 

[Pearl Wisdom]

dear friend,
please help me to solve this problem
I am using MacBook Pro [early 2011]
Internal
Sata internal physical disk 500.11gb
-Machintosh 249.7gb

*the problem is that i made partition for windows 10 (249gb) and i ERASED IT.
-now if i tried to create partiton i cant able to do/
=can u pls give some idea??????

You should ask this as a new question rather than burying it within an unrelated discussion. Sounds like you need a back up for one or more of your partitions, and that you might need to do some things with Disk Utility.

 

[vishkash]

You should ask this as a new question rather than burying it within an unrelated discussion. Sounds like you need a back up for one or more of your partitions, and that you might need to do some things with Disk Utility.

dear member,
if u have some steps showing HOW to do just send me so that it will be useful for me to sort out??

 

[Sally G]

That does not work for me. My old, non-compliant extensions are gone from that pane and when I redownload and try to install them, I get this. Clicking OK just closes the popup.

Am I missing something?

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Friefox is doing the same thing; I just upgraded after having not used/upgraded for multiple versions, and about half the plug-ins/extensions were disabled “legacy”, deemed unsafe or developers could not deal with the extensive changes required. Not loving all of this; glad I am old.

 

[jordii]

Since this needs to be repeated every time Safari is launched, I wonder if there's any way to make an applescript do this. If so, I could use a launcher app (e.g. Alfred) to trigger the script whenever Safari needs to be launched (to be more precise, one scripted action would launch Safari, and another one would restart the extension...and this script would launch via keyboard shortcut whenever I want to start Safari).

Well, then you have to get your hands dirty.

Download the extension, change the file extension from .safariextz to zip. Extract files.

Click "Show Extension Builder" in Develop menu. On the lower left corner there is a plus button. Click it. Then choose the "Add Extension".

When you get asked to, open the folder where the extracted files of your extension are. Then click "Run" in the upper right corner of Extension Builder.

Done. Now your extension shall be working like a charm.