Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 150 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

[MacRumors]

Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced 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 150 includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Web Inspector, CSS, Shadow DOM, JavaScript, Web Animations, Web Share, WebAuthn, Web API, Rendering, and Accessibility.

The current Safari Technology Preview release is built on the Safari 16 update and it includes support for feature coming in macOS Ventura such as Live Text, Passkeys, Web Extension improvements, and more.

The new build of Safari Technology Preview is compatible with machines running macOS 13 Ventura, unlike prior versions of Safari Technology Preview, but it no longer works with macOS Big Sur.

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.

Article Link: Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 150 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

 

[nortonandreev]

The same build as the one in Ventura beta 4.

 

[6787872]

it's a shame safari has such a horrific extension system or it would be a decent browser.

 

[Octavius8]

Who uses Safari anymore?.
I switched to Edge and I am mediocrely happy with it, which is light years less terrible user friendly than Safari. Not sure I made sense
The pinned home page was good and when Apple removed it, along with the 1998 bookmarks management interface I switched to a 2005 style browser. Ah, the good old days of 2015 when Safari was “fast and focused”…

 

[PsykX]

Who uses Safari anymore?.
I switched to Edge and I am mediocrely happy with it, which is light years less terrible user friendly than Safari. Not sure I made sense
The pinned home page was good and when Apple removed it, along with the 1998 bookmarks management interface I switched to a 2005 style browser. Ah, the good old days of 2015 when Safari was “fast and focused”…

Bookmarks management sucks, but Safari's the fastest browser.
I can't trade it for anything else at the moment.

 

[temende]

I keep running into this Safari bug (?) where I'll go to a url in a new tab and it'll quickly flash the page before going back to an empty tab.

 

[nvmls]

The echo chamber in this browser is massive.

 

[nvmls]

Bookmarks management sucks, but Safari's the fastest browser.
I can't trade it for anything else at the moment.

Fastest? lol.. try the others, seriously.. even swiping back & forth pages it's probably among the slowest ones.

Bookmarks management suck? What about extensions? dev tools? tab groups? cookie management? privacy tools? RAM management? no built-in ad blocker, compact view with the same UI glitches since beta 1, sometimes even icloud.com fails to load while working fine in other browsers, media playback is a pandora box depending the site, issues with most productivity domains from Google, Atlassian, Microsoft, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

 

[tracker_oz]

Fastest? lol.. try the others, seriously.. even swiping back & forth pages it's probably among the slowest ones.

Bookmarks management suck? What about extensions? dev tools? tab groups? cookie management? privacy tools? RAM management? no built-in ad blocker, compact view with the same UI glitches since beta 1, sometimes even icloud.com fails to load while working fine in other browsers, media playback is a pandora box depending the site, issues with most productivity domains from Google, Atlassian, Microsoft, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

Wow! I wish that I had your "milli-second response" eyes! Seriously though, Safari loads cached pages very, very fast, and using far less resources than Chrome-based browsers.

Something that is worrying me, and I know many others too, is the move towards the bad-old days of "works best with..." or "only works with...". Apparently, we are no better than our predecessors. I am disappointed that so many users on this forum are helping to make this happen.

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important
of all the lessons that History has to teach."​

Aldous Huxley​

 

[nvmls]

Wow! I wish that I had your "milli-second response" eyes! Seriously though, Safari loads cached pages very, very fast, and using far less resources than Chrome-based browsers.

Something that is worrying me, and I know many others too, is the move towards the bad-old days of "works best with..." or "only works with...". Apparently, we are no better than our predecessors. I am disappointed that so many users on this forum are helping to make this happen.

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important
of all the lessons that History has to teach."​

Aldous Huxley​

Mrs. Simmons, welcome!

Yea, and after writing that profound reflection, Mr. Huxley opened Chromium.

Seriously, maybe something like:

"How dare you apple consumers switch to better browsers, when ours it's so good the entire user base should be using it."

Safari Director​

 

[OddMacFan]

I’d love to know how to make Safari into the “fastest browser.” I begrudgingly use Edge most of the time because its page load time and general operation is noticeably faster than Safari on my MBP 16. Safari’s UI looks better and it has better integration, but it’s quite a bit slower for me.

 

[swrobel]

Another potential Pulitzer winner from MR

 

[ja']

I keep running into this Safari bug (?) where I'll go to a url in a new tab and it'll quickly flash the page before going back to an empty tab.

omg, me too! this is the worst!!! which kind of Mac do you have?

 

[3Rock]

Max studio here and I have absolutely no problem with Safari. I will never use chrome but I do like safari no matter who says differently.

 

[temende]

omg, me too! this is the worst!!! which kind of Mac do you have?

14" MBP w/ M1 Pro

 

[chickeneaster]

I like Chrome and Safari but Safari, for me, seems more streamlined and snappier, I presume because of the fact that ot uses less RAM for its pages and tabs

 

[needsomecoffee]

My 2012 MacBook Pro -- which does everything I need without delay -- does not support more modern MacOS's.

Does the most current MacOS Safari support PWA installs yet ??

Thx.

 

[Ashbash75]

I'm only using safari because of keychain but the extensions are rather limited e.g. decent ad blocker.

On my windoze machines, it's firefox.

 

[Kraszim]

I gave up on safari recently due to very limited content blocking options. Webpages recently become such a mess with miriads of different cookie popups etc. that trying to use them without content blocking is not particularly pleasant. Firefox does it way better. It's a shame really as Safari is best integrated with macOS, and in my opinion faster.

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

Max studio here and I have absolutely no problem with Safari. I will never use chrome but I do like safari no matter who says differently.

You also appear to be the type of person that thinks saying what hardware they have makes their input more valuable. Glad to know Safari works on your Max Studio and in other news the earth is round...

 

[richinaus]

14" MBP w/ M1 Pro

Same here, same problem…..

 

[chevyboy60013]

I basically only use safari, occasionally use Firefox and will never use chrome. Can’t stand chrome at all.

 

[Futurix]

Looks like they removed the pointless "Home Page" from the home page 🥳