Apple Releases Safari 3.1

[interfuse]

I like Safari. It's neat, simply, and fast. But as for functionality and overall efficiency, Opera beats any browser available IMHO.

I highly recommend people give Opera a good try. A "good try" meaning, use it for a couple of weeks or so, not just a quick 10minute "trial".

One thing that I hate with Safari (& Firefox) is that you need to use both hands for the keyboard shortcut of alternating between tabs. This is annoying, especially in Safari when the cursor is in a text box, the tab shortcut key doesn't even work.

 

[uNext]

BLAH safari is and will always be nothing more than a second class browser.

firefox or opera all the way.

 

[Kar98]

Just downloaded and my wife seems alot snappier!!

Damn! Why yes, she is!

 

[darwinian]

Webkit Nightly

Whats the Link for the Nightly Builds?

http://nightly.webkit.org/

 

[clevin]

To anser my own question:
Apparently, safari 3.1 is using a webkit branch more than 60 days old.

Its javascript benchmark is 18% slower than recent nightly webkit, and 19% slower than today's firefox 3.

Acid3 is only 75/100, compare to webkit nightly's 92/100, firefox 3 nightly's 70/100.

 

[mozmac]

I really never found a problem with the previous version... now if they only allow HTML images to be seen instead of HTML coding that would be awsome.

I mean they are making it faster (it was already fast), moving tabs (they already had that in previous version).

When on a web site like say ebay. And you are doing somehing like html img[lkdjflajdlkaj <---example

In preview in Firefox you will see the image... in safari you will see html img[...

Once they alow this, i will switch to safari.

You know, I'm a computer geek and web developer, and I can't follow what you said.

 

[Kar98]

One thing that I hate with Safari (& Firefox) is that you need to use both hands for the keyboard shortcut of alternating between tabs.

Unless you got extremely short and stiff hands, command and any number up to 6 (7 is a stretch, 8's right out) on the number row, shouldn't be a problem to reach with jsut the left hand.

 

[morespce54]

Safari 3.1 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X Leopard® or Mac OS X Tiger® version 10.4.11, a minimum of 256MB of memory and is designed to run on any Intel-based Mac or a Mac with a PowerPC G5, G4 or G3 processor and built-in FireWire®. Safari 3.1 for Windows requires Windows XP or Windows Vista, a minimum of 256MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor.

Funny...
Can someone explain to me why a built-in FireWire is required to browse the Web?

 

[eastcoastsurfer]

I hope they didn't add any new features, because then they would have to charge for it.

Oh wait...

 

[Island Dog]

No noticeable differences here.

 

[morespce54]

OMG!!! Safari is snappier!!!

...Sorry, I wont do it again (ever, I promised)...

 

[sunfast]

Can someone explain to me why a built-in FireWire is required to browse the Web?

I think it's because all the machine built since firewire was included are powerful enough to run safari well - not that firewire per se is require

 

[swb1192]

noooo!!!!

Safari 3.1 has lost 1Password compatibility!

Ugh... I'm going to have to use Time Machine and back up Safari... I can't do without 1Password!

 

[Eraserhead]

To anser my own question:
Apparently, safari 3.1 is using a webkit branch more than 60 days old.

Nice and old then, I think they found a bug they'd introduced in the newer versions.

Of course I was wrong about 3.1 passing Acid3, but its come out sooner than I expected too.

 

[Macula]

Works fine for me. I went to Google.com and all showed up as it should have.

I do have the problem: After installing 3.1, the Google logo has indeed been replaced by a small question mark.

Clearing caches didn't help.

 

[lucasgladding]

You mean you can't use Safari 3.1 on a MacBook Air? Apple often uses built-in Firewire to specify which G3 models can handle application requirements. Beige G3 models are officially unsupported by most recent software and (I think anyway) they were the last models without Firewire built in.

Funny...
Can someone explain to me why a built-in FireWire is required to browse the Web?

 

[xenotaku]

blah blah blah, I'll stick with Camino, thanks.

 

[Beric]

The Pith Helmet ad-blocker apparently doesn't work, according to other sites!

Can't download. Pith Helmet makes it possible to navigate sites that would otherwise be impossible to use, and wipes out those annoying ads.

 

[Gerwin]

Crap on windows: gives a memory error when shutting down. Has problems with proxy. I love Safari, I use it on my Mac, but at work, with windows, it has always been complete rubbish. It uses the proxy settings from IE FGS!

 

[WalrusCP]

noooo!!!!

Safari 3.1 has lost 1Password compatibility!

Ugh... I'm going to have to use Time Machine and back up Safari... I can't do without 1Password!

Thankfully the developers for 1PW are great - they'll have it supporting 3.1 by tomorrow I bet.

 

[slffl]

Yet Digg still doesn't work with it. Get your s@&% together Digg.

 

[swb1192]

Thankfully the developers for 1PW are great - they'll have it supporting 3.1 by tomorrow I bet.

If they do, I'm going to be the happiest person on earth. I can't live without 1Password, it is a marvelous program.

 

[Jonathan_W]

Just installed safari 3.1 , i think its faster.

work:
safari stand
concierge
twicetab
inquisitor

not working:
1Password
SafariTabs

You don't need Twicetab anymore as the new version of Safari allows you to double click on the tab bar for a new tab. However Safari doesn't do the automatic paste link feature which Twicetab has when you double click for a new tab (if a link has been copied beforehand).

1Password works for me

Does anyone know how to use the "Open Page With" feature in the Develop menu of Safari's menu bar with TextMate? If I click on this context menu, I don't get any sub context menus

 

[clevin]

Nice and old then, I think they found a bug they'd introduced in the newer versions.

Of course I was wrong about 3.1 passing Acid3, but its come out sooner than I expected too.

IDK, Apple's developing structure is so murky, I really have no idea how they grab code from webkit, how they decide where to start, and how they incorporate new progress of webkit after their branching of safari 3.1 (apparent not much at all).

I think of no reason for those who use webkit nightly to "upgrade/downgrade" to safari 3.1.

 

[xUKHCx]

Nice and old then, I think they found a bug they'd introduced in the newer versions.

Of course I was wrong about 3.1 passing Acid3, but its come out sooner than I expected too.

The way that webkit is incorporated into safari naturally means it will be an older version as they take the build and test and tweak etc. for a while before releasing it to the masses.

I was thinking just yesterday about why apple hasn't released 3.1 and came to the conclusion that they were waiting for 100/100 in acid3 with webkit so they could say they were the first mainstream browser to pass.

However I was wrong. But I use webkit so I am nice and up to date. All those one 3.1 don't know the meaning of snappy.