Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 116 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

[MacRumors]

Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced four years ago in March 2016. Apple designed the Safari Technology Preview to test features that may be introduced into future release versions of Safari.

Safari Technology Preview release 116 includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Web Extensions, Web Inspector, Web Audio API, MediaRecorder, CSS, Rendering, JavaScript, WebAuthn, Media, Web API, URL Parsing, Storage Access API, Accessibility, and WebDriver.

The current Safari Technology Preview release is the built on the new Safari 14 update included in macOS Big Sur with support for Safari Web Extensions imported from other browsers, tab previews, password breach notifications, web authentication with Touch ID, and more.

The new Safari Technology Preview update is available for both macOS Catalina and macOS Big Sur, the newest version of the Mac operating system.

The Safari Technology Preview update is available through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences to anyone who has downloaded the browser. Full release notes for the update are available on the Safari Technology Preview website.

Apple's aim with Safari Technology Preview is to gather feedback from developers and users on its browser development process. Safari Technology Preview can run side-by-side with the existing Safari browser and while designed for developers, it does not require a developer account to download.

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[xxnemoxx]

Safari Feels a bit snappier after the update.

 

[opfor]

Performance is better than Safari 14.0 but still worse than Safari 13.1, e.g. scrolling. Tested on Catalina in instagram.com/explore with Safari 13 and the Tech Preview and the difference is still noticeable.

 

[maneta]

Performance is better than Safari 14.0 but still worse than Safari 13.1, e.g. scrolling. Tested on Catalina in instagram.com/explore with Safari 13 and the Tech Preview and the difference is still noticeable.

Yes indeed...i really don't know what they changed on version 14.
Also on facebook's news feed and tumblr...the scrolling it's really laggy.

 

[BulkSlash]

Hopefully this will sort the random crashes I was seeing. Everything would be fine and then clicking a link would very occasionally cause it to close without even an error message.

 

[JDGwf]

Still has tons of ES6 interpreter bugs

I just submitted a big one to the Safari team.