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Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 165 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

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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.

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Safari Technology Preview release 165 includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Web Inspector, CSS, JavaScript, Layout, Media, Forms, Web Animations, WebCrypto, WebGL, Loading, Web API, Accessibility, and Web Extensions.

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.

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MisterK said:
Wasn't there supposed to be some new Safari extension framework that was more interoperable with Chrome extensions? I recall something being said about that a while back. Safari extensions are both weirdly rare and hard to search through.
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Was wondering the same thing. It was said in a keynote a while ago if I remember well.
 
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Happy camper with Edge. Also have STP installed and try it from time to time, what a joke of browser. You will be blown away by the "less worse" desing and features of Edge. Collections, bookmark management, strat page with my favorite sites is BASIC and Apple removed that years ago and made Safari a lackluster product that is brings no joy in using the internet...
Just kill it, Apple. It is pathetic since many years ago and there is no indication that a capable human is designing the user experience in Safari.
 
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MisterK said:
Wasn't there supposed to be some new Safari extension framework that was more interoperable with Chrome extensions? I recall something being said about that a while back. Safari extensions are both weirdly rare and hard to search through.
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I think this is already in. It's just that Safari wasn't supposed to support all the features of Chrome extension API, just a small subset. Turns out the subset was so small that nobody bothered to transition.
 
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MisterK said:
Wasn't there supposed to be some new Safari extension framework that was more interoperable with Chrome extensions? I recall something being said about that a while back. Safari extensions are both weirdly rare and hard to search through.
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There is. It was introduced at WWDC 2020 and there's a tool for automatically(-ish) converting Chrome extensions. I don't think Safari supports everything Chrome does, which prevents µBlock, for example. They may be limited for privacy reasons, as Apple usually claims, or maybe they're just not a priority. You need to pay for the developer program and I'd imagine that puts off a lot of extension developers. See https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/28/safari-web-extensions/.
 
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Octavius8 said:
Happy camper with Edge. Also have STP installed and try it from time to time, what a joke of browser. You will be blown away by the "less worse" desing and features of Edge. Collections, bookmark management, strat page with my favorite sites is BASIC and Apple removed that years ago and made Safari a lackluster product that is brings no joy in using the internet...
Just kill it, Apple. It is pathetic since many years ago and there is no indication that a capable human is designing the user experience in Safari.
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Edge sucks, IMHO. Tried it, hated it. Plus it is a lot slower
 
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MisterK said:
Wasn't there supposed to be some new Safari extension framework that was more interoperable with Chrome extensions? I recall something being said about that a while back. Safari extensions are both weirdly rare and hard to search through.
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It's a work in progress: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions

Basically they're working through the Webextensions API with the focus being on harmonising and documenting then once done the respective browser engineers implement it with some browsers implementing it a lot quicker than others depending on how much legacy code can be refactored and bought into compliance with the API.
 
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Octavius8 said:
Happy camper with Edge. Also have STP installed and try it from time to time, what a joke of browser. You will be blown away by the "less worse" desing and features of Edge. Collections, bookmark management, strat page with my favorite sites is BASIC and Apple removed that years ago and made Safari a lackluster product that is brings no joy in using the internet...
Just kill it, Apple. It is pathetic since many years ago and there is no indication that a capable human is designing the user experience in Safari.
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Agreed with Safari being a lost cause at this point. It is so far behind any other browser at this point, especially on the Mac.

I did use Edge until Microsoft bloated that up nice and fat with a bunch of lame features, like the shopping drop down, side bar BS etc. You can't even customize a new tab in Edge unless you use an extension, as the FORCE their junky Bing world down your throat on new tabs. There should be an epileptic warning when that page comes up there is so much junk on it.

Chome, it just works and works well. Ublock Origin is your best friend.
 
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Octavius8 said:
Happy camper with Edge. Also have STP installed and try it from time to time, what a joke of browser. You will be blown away by the "less worse" desing and features of Edge. Collections, bookmark management, strat page with my favorite sites is BASIC and Apple removed that years ago and made Safari a lackluster product that is brings no joy in using the internet...
Just kill it, Apple. It is pathetic since many years ago and there is no indication that a capable human is designing the user experience in Safari.
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You definitely live in a different dimension. Granted, I no longer use browser bookmarks, but Safari continues to be my preferred browser. I do use Chrome for some sites, and have used tried to make Firefox and Brave my default browser in the past, but keep coming back to Safari. Keychain integration remains the most valuable reason.
 
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nostra999 said:
Yet another release where blurred backgrounds in google meet don't work

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Is there a reason that you're using Google Meet in the browser instead of using the native Mac client app? I do see that the native app is tagged with "(Original)", so maybe they are not maintaining that app?
 
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