Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 160 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 160 includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Web Inspector, CSS, Rendering, Web Animations, SVG, Media, JavaScript, WebAssembly, Service Workers, Accessibility, Editing, and Web API.

The current Safari Technology Preview release is version 16.4 and is compatible with machines running macOS Ventura and macOS Monterey.

The Safari Technology Preview update is available through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences or System Settings 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 160 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

Don’t sleep on using technology preview as your main browser!

 

[silverlakerCA]

I can't use Safari - it stalls/hangs on too many websites - for now apparent reason or logic.
The minute I switch to Firefox or Edge, no such problems.

 

[swrobel]

Whoever writes these: never stop never stopping

 

[pianostar9]

Don’t sleep on using technology preview as your main browser!

Exactly, everyone knows you have to build WebKit from source nightly and use that as your main browser...

You can't use the Build Archives; you have to do it yourself or it's not good enough.

 

[livmatus]

have they finally fixed the issue when one cannot drag a tab out of a Safari window (or to another window) without it breaking the whole thing ?

 

[imnotthewalrus]

you had me curious...so I just dragged this tab to my desktop with no problem.

 

[livmatus]

from time to time it works ... but just google the problem... it's been there since Monterey

 

[seanmills1020]

Preview 161 will add random BLINK tags to a website.

 

[lkrupp]

I can't use Safari - it stalls/hangs on too many websites - for now apparent reason or logic.
The minute I switch to Firefox or Edge, no such problems.

I use Safari exclusively. It NEVER stalls or hangs on any website. Whatever you are doing, stop it.

 

[lkrupp]

from time to time it works ... but just google the problem... it's been there since Monterey

Googling doesn’t prove there’s a problem at all. It works for me as well, always has. There’s nothing to fix.

 

[maxdefcon]

The only thing I wish Apple would do is update Safari outside of macOS updates.

 

[Vashetti]

The only thing I wish Apple would do is update Safari outside of macOS updates.

They do, I'm stuck on Monterey and recently received Safari 16.2 through Software Update.

 

[AUGUSTU5]

Safari is the biggest pile of horse **** ever developed. It often stalls, website freeze completely, loading speeds are super slow and unresponsive. Not all the time, but it is the times you need it, it falls flat on its face. - Still using it daily because of artificial Password Limitation crap with Touch ID and Keychain. Whoever says, that Safari never hangs is using it wrong. For your daily web browsing needs, an iPod touch would be plenty. As a Full Time Developer it often frustrates me. Force Quitting is an hourly routine. THANK goodness Mapple realized it, and Macs automagically have a handy shortcut for this. Cmd + Q is the savior of all Safari Users. - PS: My colleagues think the same

 

[michelb76]

Safari is the biggest pile of horse **** ever developed. It often stalls, website freeze completely, loading speeds are super slow and unresponsive. Not all the time, but it is the times you need it, it falls flat on its face. - Still using it daily because of artificial Password Limitation crap with Touch ID and Keychain. Whoever says, that Safari never hangs is using it wrong. For your daily web browsing needs, an iPod touch would be plenty. As a Full Time Developer it often frustrates me. Force Quitting is an hourly routine. THANK goodness Mapple realized it, and Macs automagically have a handy shortcut for this. Cmd + Q is the savior of all Safari Users. - PS: My colleagues think the same

This really sounds like a you problem. I'm a developer and I have been using for YEARS without many problems.

 

[michelb76]

have they finally fixed the issue when one cannot drag a tab out of a Safari window (or to another window) without it breaking the whole thing ?

nope, that still in there but seems to occur less often. Hard to reproduce though.

 

[d4cloo]

I stopped using Safari because it does not support profiles, making it hard to switch between them (e.g GSuite).

 

[livmatus]

Safari is the biggest pile of horse **** ever developed. It often stalls, website freeze completely, loading speeds are super slow and unresponsive. Not all the time, but it is the times you need it, it falls flat on its face. - Still using it daily because of artificial Password Limitation crap with Touch ID and Keychain. Whoever says, that Safari never hangs is using it wrong. For your daily web browsing needs, an iPod touch would be plenty. As a Full Time Developer it often frustrates me. Force Quitting is an hourly routine. THANK goodness Mapple realized it, and Macs automagically have a handy shortcut for this. Cmd + Q is the savior of all Safari Users. - PS: My colleagues think the same

I can relate. It also often stalls for me... plus the issue with tabs I mentioned above.

I switched from Chrome to Safari because of said Touch ID (payments, Keychain) ... and also because of excessive SSD usage when using Chrome (especially when streaming videos).

Tho Chrome was at least reliable and there are adblockers that actually work (e.g. uBlock Origin)

I was dragged into the ecosystem and hoped for almost seamless experience ... yet Apple can't figure out some basics... it often feels like testing on their site is virtually non-existent.

 

[livmatus]

Googling doesn’t prove there’s a problem at all. It works for me as well, always has. There’s nothing to fix.

interesting logic

 

[silverlakerCA]

This really sounds like a you problem. I'm a developer and I have been using for YEARS without many problems.

I'm a consumer, heavy user of the web. And Safari craps out most of the time, hanging on websites that launch immediately on Firefox or Edge.

 

[nvmls]

I use Safari exclusively. It NEVER stalls or hangs on any website. Whatever you are doing, stop it.

Good one.

 

[nvmls]

This really sounds like a you problem. I'm a developer and I have been using for YEARS without many problems.

It's an abomination for development.