Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 120 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

[macbequick]

I don't get the point way of reporting? Is this an article are is this a notification?

This is literally a copy/paste post where they update links based on the version being released. It says the same ****ing thing every time. But the copy is literally saying the same ****ing thing every time:

"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"

This sentence has been the same all 120 times this article has been re-published.

What would be super interesting and show real effort is if they actually wrote an article with actual substance on this. Maybe wait to highlight a new interesting feature? And not just report every time Apple releases a new version of this?

Maybe I'm alone on this and just being super cranky? I don't know? I never get anything useful from the MacRumor article copy. Only that there is a new release (which I already know when MacOS prompts me to download the new version and then lists what features the new update includes).

 

[Blowback]

ANYONE❓⁉️❓

For Q #1: Yes...if I read you correctly; when I open a website in either it ONLY opens in that version of Safari.
For Q #2: Just received an update yesterday. The updates arrive just as per other Apple applications. Check your Prefs/updates .
Hope this helps.

 

[k.alexander]

For Q #1: Yes...if I read you correctly; when I open a website in either it ONLY opens in that version of Safari.
For Q #2: Just received an update yesterday. The updates arrive just as per other Apple applications. Check your Prefs/updates .
Hope this helps.

Thanks.
Q1. I'm saying I receive a Safari Push Notification (see screenshot below). From the Notification Center (see picture), I click on the notification. Both Safari and STP open up and load the site. This is in light of the fact that STP is running and is set as a default web-browser, and Safari is not running. Seems like they share a lot of the settings, including the ones for individual websites and among other things their notifications. If I'm missing something on how to properly configure these two browsers to have only one of them load when I click one of these push notifications, can someone please enlighten me, as I'm getting a little tired of banging my head against the desk in trying to figure this out.

Q2. So you go to App Store > Updates to update? I wasn't getting all day yesterday, but I can at least understand that as I'm running Big Sur on a "technically" unsupported late 2012 Mac Mini (which btw was easy to install and update with .1 updates, and runs 100% fine).

 

[Blowback]

Thanks.
Q1. I'm saying I receive a Safari Push Notification (see screenshot below). From the Notification Center (see picture), I click on the notification. Both Safari and STP open up and load the site. This is in light of the fact that STP is running and is set as a default web-browser, and Safari is not running. Seems like they share a lot of the settings, including the ones for individual websites and among other things their notifications. If I'm missing something on how to properly configure these two browsers to have only one of them load when I click one of these push notifications, can someone please enlighten me, as I'm getting a little tired of banging my head against the desk in trying to figure this out.

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Q2. So you go to App Store > Updates to update? I wasn't getting all day yesterday, but I can at least understand that as I'm running Big Sur on a "technically" unsupported late 2012 Mac Mini (which btw was easy to install and update with .1 updates, and runs 100% fine).

I never did any configuration ....just downloaded the STP sometime last year. Haven't seen what you're seeing in #1. For updates I've been receiving the usual 'You have updates....' whatever the actual wording is...Yesterdays update showed up in 'System Prefs....Software update'. Using 2017 MBP with Big Sur 11.2.1 and Safari 14.0.3 and STP Release 120 (Safari 14.2, WebKit 16612.1.2.6). I don't always have both open at once but often do....usually to different pages though both have all of my bookmarks. Hope this helps.

 

[k.alexander]

I never did any configuration ....just downloaded the STP sometime last year. Haven't seen what you're seeing in #1. For updates I've been receiving the usual 'You have updates....' whatever the actual wording is...Yesterdays update showed up in 'System Prefs....Software update'. Using 2017 MBP with Big Sur 11.2.1 and Safari 14.0.3 and STP Release 120 (Safari 14.2, WebKit 16612.1.2.6). I don't always have both open at once but often do....usually to different pages though both have all of my bookmarks. Hope this helps.

Ahh, ok, so the update comes from within System Preferences -- ok that completely answers #2.

As for #1, can you do me a favor, and test out what happens if you get a Safari Push Notification and then click on it. Does the page (that the notification is for) get loaded in both STP AND Safari?

 

[Blowback]

Ahh, ok, so the update comes from within System Preferences -- ok that completely answers #2.

As for #1, can you do me a favor, and test out what happens if you get a Safari Push Notification and then click on it. Does the page (that the notification is for) get loaded in both STP AND Safari?

Just tried it and the Notification page only opened in Safari. Kinda makes sense as I don't remember 'setting up' or being asked to set-up Notifications in STP ?.

 

[k.alexander]

Just tried it and the Notification page only opened in Safari. Kinda makes sense as I don't remember 'setting up' or being asked to set-up Notifications in STP ?.

Thanks. Just Safari? Not STP? Yeah this is annoying. Mine opens in both. Seem like you can't really configure one vs the other, or configure STP to be the one true default browser (short of maybe fully deleting Safari, which I'm not sure is such a good idea in MacOS). I'm really trying to switch away from Chrome, but if it's not one thing, it's something else.

 

[Blowback]

Thanks. Just Safari? Not STP? Yeah this is annoying. Mine opens in both. Seem like you can't really configure one vs the other, or configure STP to be the one true default browser (short of maybe fully deleting Safari, which I'm not sure is such a good idea in MacOS). I'm really trying to switch away from Chrome, but if it's not one thing, it's something else.

Check all of your settings. Doesn't make sense to me that a Notification (same as you mean by 'push Notification' right?) would open in both as only Safari should be your 'real' browser and STP a 'work in progress...' OR: Mine is the wrong set-up??? Anyone else care to opine?

 

[k.alexander]

Check all of your settings. Doesn't make sense to me that a Notification (same as you mean by 'push Notification' right?) would open in both as only Safari should be your 'real' browser and STP a 'work in progress...' OR: Mine is the wrong set-up??? Anyone else care to opine?

Thanks, not sure what other settings to check. In Preferences for both Safari and STP, so Safari or STP > Preferences > Websites > Notifications -- both Safari and STP show for ex MacRumors as "These websites have permission to show alerts in Notification Center", and both show "Allow" for Macrumors and a handful of other sites that I want to get notifications from. I tried a bunch of times yesterday, for ex. setting this screen under Safari to "Deny" while leaving it on STP as "Allow"; I also tried deleting or "Removing" the Macrumors page under this notifications screen from Safari but leaving it in STP. The two browsers definitely share settings, because no matter in which order I tried to change these setting, no matter if I had one browser open while the other closed, or if I deleted/removed them from both and only re-added them under STP, they're basically in some degree of sync and the end result is either both browsers load the site once I click the notification from that site, or if I mess enough with removing from one but keeping the notification active in the other, I break it and neither browser loads it. So that's it, just trying to figure out if this is indeed how it is supposed to work.

Looked under System Preferences > Notifications. Can't seem to change the way it works under there.

Is there another setting you guys can suggest.

PS: Just looked up how to disable Safari altogether (now this is just a matter of principal for me to figure out) -- one suggestion was through the Get Info window in Finder, by disabling permissions to launch the app; did that, and somewhat unsurprisingly now notifications won't launch Safari (because I just disabled permission to run Safari) but they also seem to do nothing/have no effect on STP, i.e. the notification site does not get loaded in STP; so that's a non-starter.

 

[Blowback]

Thanks, not sure what other settings to check. In Preferences for both Safari and STP, so Safari or STP > Preferences > Websites > Notifications -- both Safari and STP show for ex MacRumors as "These websites have permission to show alerts in Notification Center", and both show "Allow" for Macrumors and a handful of other sites that I want to get notifications from. I tried a bunch of times yesterday, for ex. setting this screen under Safari to "Deny" while leaving it on STP as "Allow"; I also tried deleting or "Removing" the Macrumors page under this notifications screen from Safari but leaving it in STP. The two browsers definitely share settings, because no matter in which order I tried to change these setting, no matter if I had one browser open while the other closed, or if I deleted/removed them from both and only re-added them under STP, they're basically in some degree of sync and the end result is either both browsers load the site once I click the notification from that site, or if I mess enough with removing from one but keeping the notification active in the other, I break it and neither browser loads it. So that's it, just trying to figure out if this is indeed how it is supposed to work.

Looked under System Preferences > Notifications. Can't seem to change the way it works under there.

Is there another setting you guys can suggest.

PS: Just looked up how to disable Safari altogether (now this is just a matter of principal for me to figure out) -- one suggestion was through the Get Info window in Finder, by disabling permissions to launch the app; did that, and somewhat unsurprisingly now notifications won't launch Safari (because I just disabled permission to run Safari) but they also seem to do nothing/have no effect on STP, i.e. the notification site does not get loaded in STP; so that's a non-starter.

Ah...reminds me of when I'd balance my bills ledger and be 'off' by a few cents...know the feeling🙁! Just guessing but could be that its a 2012 mini??? If you don't get any answers here try the Apple forums. Either way you now have me more interested. To repeat: I'm not a tester...if you are could that have something to do with it? Maybe leave Safari alone (I would ) and re-install the STP???

 

[srbNYC]

Is there any way to make the Technology Preview the default app for links etc.?
Update: Never mind, I did my research and found it in System Preferences/General. Sometimes I autonomically ask you folks before using good ol' DuckDuckGo.

 

[srbNYC]

Two weird issues with this release:

1. Can only sporadically get Command-N to open a new window. Quitting and restarting helps, but then it fails again.
2. Pinned tabs don't "stick." I create them in one window, and they don't appear in the next, or when I restart.

 

[Blowback]

Two weird issues with this release:

1. Can only sporadically get Command-N to open a new window. Quitting and restarting helps, but then it fails again.
2. Pinned tabs don't "stick." I create them in one window, and they don't appear in the next, or when I restart.

Make sure to alert Apple....

 

[srbNYC]

Was surprised to see bugs in basic function, more than in the new features—but I guess anything can break anything.

 

[Tev11]

ANYONE❓⁉️❓

You get updates for Safari TP via System preferences, just like normal Safari does on older OS's (like how you can have Safari 14 on Catalina).

If you're getting notifications strictly for Safari, then it'll open Safari. If its for Safari TP, then it'll open STP.

If it's just a normal notification, then it'll depend on what you set as a default browser. You can have Safari TP as your browser default.

 

[k.alexander]

You get updates for Safari TP via System preferences, just like normal Safari does on older OS's (like how you can have Safari 14 on Catalina).

If you're getting notifications strictly for Safari, then it'll open Safari. If its for Safari TP, then it'll open STP.

If it's just a normal notification, then it'll depend on what you set as a default browser. You can have Safari TP as your browser default.

Thanks. But not sure how to set it up to "get notifications strictly for Safari ... or ... for Safari TP". Seems like I delete notifications for each website in Safari and/or STP > Preferences > Websites > Notifications; then go through just STP to get up notifications for websites again, they show up in the Safari > Preferences > Websites > Notifications settings. And vice versa. And clicking on these notifications opens both browsers. This is after STP has been set as default browser in System Preferences. Again, if I'm doing something wrong, someone correct me.

 

[flowsy]

Anybody else getting a slightly different font on google.com ? Nope, hallucinating...

 

[nph]

Which one is more energy efficient?

 

[srbNYC]

OK, this is minor and/or silly, I know, but I wish they abbreviated Safari Technology Preview in the menu bar. It's such a long name, it forces some of my other menu items not to appear when I'm in the browser. 🤷‍♂️