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Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 126 With macOS Monterey Features

Updated for me today (via VPN) with no issues. 2015 iMac on Big Sur 11.4.

Runs very fast, works great. I like the new tab handling and groups.
 
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Wildhope said:
I can't get it to download. Was it pulled?
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It never showed up in Software Update for me, so I redownloaded it from the STP website after deleting the old version and it's Library folder (username/Library/SafariTechnologyPreview) and restarting. A rework like this really will work best with a fresh start in terms of the .app and .plist files. It isn't like the prior several builds which aren't that different.

It has not been pulled. It works very very well. I'm not ready to do betas yet on my devices including that of macOS Monterey or even installing Safari Beta, so this is my way of trying some of these new technologies. I LOVE the new Safari! It's faster, cleaner, and seems to be more on par with what I expect from a Chromium browser which I also use. It has pulled me off of Microsoft Edge 91. I really feel like it's also better on YouTube. It just has less jank overall.
 
macguy2021 said:
It never showed up in Software Update for me, so I redownloaded it from the STP website after deleting the old version and it's Library folder (username/Library/SafariTechnologyPreview) and restarting. A rework like this really will work best with a fresh start in terms of the .app and .plist files. It isn't like the prior several builds which aren't that different.

It has not been pulled. It works very very well. I'm not ready to do betas yet on my devices including that of macOS Monterey or even installing Safari Beta, so this is my way of trying some of these new technologies. I LOVE the new Safari! It's faster, cleaner, and seems to be more on par with what I expect from a Chromium browser which I also use. It has pulled me off of Microsoft Edge 91. I really feel like it's also better on YouTube. It just has less jank overall.
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how big was your download file? doing this did not work for me at all
 
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macguy2021 said:
It never showed up in Software Update for me, so I redownloaded it from the STP website after deleting the old version and it's Library folder (username/Library/SafariTechnologyPreview) and restarting. A rework like this really will work best with a fresh start in terms of the .app and .plist files. It isn't like the prior several builds which aren't that different.

It has not been pulled. It works very very well. I'm not ready to do betas yet on my devices including that of macOS Monterey or even installing Safari Beta, so this is my way of trying some of these new technologies. I LOVE the new Safari! It's faster, cleaner, and seems to be more on par with what I expect from a Chromium browser which I also use. It has pulled me off of Microsoft Edge 91. I really feel like it's also better on YouTube. It just has less jank overall.
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Can you upload the .dmg file? Because I can't download using the link from Apple at the moment, it looks like they pulled it down.
 

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LFC2020 said:
Same could be said about the other platforms as well, should’ve called WWDC 2021, WWDC2020.
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It’s funny that so many of us were asking Apple to slow down, stabilize thing, improve things, fix bugs. From descriptions of the beta experience it sounds like they did that. But now people are complaining that there were not enough big changes. I recognize that we each have different needs but it does show that you can’t win in this game.
 
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SMGreenfield said:
Hard to understand all the great experimental work in Safari, when Safari is consistently the most incompatible of the major web browsers. I like Safari, but I’m always switching to FireFox or Chrome because some website I using won’t work properly on Safari. Why is that?
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The question is “why are crappy sites using Chrome specific features without testing on any other browsers?”
 
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Tagbert said:
It’s funny that so many of us were asking Apple to slow down, stabilize thing, improve things, fix bugs. From descriptions of the beta experience it sounds like they did that. But now people are complaining that there were not enough big changes. I recognize that we each have different needs but it does show that you can’t win in this game.
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Maybe one day they’ll fix the iCloud contacts names disappearing whenever they feel like it, shame they haven’t fixed it since iCloud got introduced.
 
macguy2021 said:
It never showed up in Software Update for me, so I redownloaded it from the STP website after deleting the old version and it's Library folder (username/Library/SafariTechnologyPreview) and restarting. A rework like this really will work best with a fresh start in terms of the .app and .plist files. It isn't like the prior several builds which aren't that different.

It has not been pulled. It works very very well. I'm not ready to do betas yet on my devices including that of macOS Monterey or even installing Safari Beta, so this is my way of trying some of these new technologies. I LOVE the new Safari! It's faster, cleaner, and seems to be more on par with what I expect from a Chromium browser which I also use. It has pulled me off of Microsoft Edge 91. I really feel like it's also better on YouTube. It just has less jank overall.
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Still not able to download for Big Sur
 
triptolemus said:
Pulled or whatever else. The Big Sur version is busted.

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I'm using it on Big Sur 11.4.

I had redownloaded it when I posted that it hadn't been pulled and it opened, but I just now deleted my downloads folder contents, and redownloaded and I'm getting this error now. It must have been because I had downloaded a file before that passed verification. And now that I've deleted the original DMG because I was just sure it hadn't been pulled but wanted to verify, I cannot upload it.
 
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After 6 months I'm honestly still experiencing quite a few compatibility issues with many websites, in safari.

For example gifs often fail to load or play back chugging (they don't on firefox on the same mac) and sometimes there's some troubles with javascript on selected websites
 
Tagbert said:
It’s funny that so many of us were asking Apple to slow down, stabilize thing, improve things, fix bugs. From descriptions of the beta experience it sounds like they did that. But now people are complaining that there were not enough big changes. I recognize that we each have different needs but it does show that you can’t win in this game.
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Probably the same people that hated the new look of iOS 7, but also wants a complete new look.

Am I the only one who is excited for all the new features in this WWDC. I look at Android and they’re doing new colors system wide, and coping all of Apple privacy features, Windows 11 looks like discount MacOS. And this is all free. We don’t pay for it, and every year a phone as old as iPhone 6S gets a fresh update.
 
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macislife said:
Big Sur link has been removed from https://developer.apple.com/safari/download/ , there is now only Monterey link.
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It now states Big Sur support is "coming soon".

Other than the crash on launch issue which I described how to fix, STP 126 has been incredibly stable for me. I assume because so many people had this launch crash issue and didn't know how to fix it, Apple is working on a patched version that deletes the folder I described when 126 is first installed to prevent this issue from happening. Because it is a complete rewrite, there is no way of getting around not deleting the STP folder in username/Library. Not if you want a stable experience, anyhow.
 
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