Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 175 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 175 includes fixes and updates for Accessibility, CSS, Editing, Media, Web API, and Web Inspector.

The update now features content coming in Safari 17 alongside macOS Sonoma. On Sonoma, the browser offers Profiles for separating browsing data like History and Favorites, web apps, and improved private browsing mode. Features for all operating systems include Feature Flags (replacing Experimental Features), a redesigned Develop menu, Live Text support for vertical text recognition in images and videos, HEIC support, and JPEG XL, a new image format with an improved compression algorithm for better image quality at smaller file sizes than JPEG.

The current Safari Technology Preview release is compatible with machines running macOS Ventura and macOS Sonoma, the latest version of macOS that Apple is beta testing right now.

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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[segfaultdotorg]

Can't find the download on my iPad mini 2. Plz halp!

 

[boswald]

How much faster can it get? It already flies on my iPhone.

 

[segfaultdotorg]

They need to bring back Internet Explorer for OS X! Start a petition!

 

[winxmac]

They need to bring back Internet Explorer for OS X! Start a petition!

Safari for Windows would be better...

 

[SexExpert]

It's nice to see that Apple have finally added favicons to bookmarks in the bookmarks bar, but you cant turn the text off, and if you set the text to an empty string so your bookmark bar is just icons, Safari ignores your change. I want a bookmarks bar with just icons, dammit.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Again, this doesn't bring Sonoma features such as web apps , if you install on Ventura , right ?

 

[Kottu]

Do people use Safari TP as the main browser?

 

[PsykX]

It's nice to see that Apple have finally added favicons to bookmarks in the bookmarks bar, but you cant turn the text off, and if you set the text to an empty string so your bookmark bar is just icons, Safari ignores your change. I want a bookmarks bar with just icons, dammit.

Since the last 3-4 years you can pin then on the left of your tab bar and it does just that.

 

[MacGizmo]

Since the last 3-4 years you can pin then on the left of your tab bar and it does just that.

We don't want to Pin the sites, just have them show favicons with no text on every tab while they're open – which obviously Safari doesn't do.

 

[lkrupp]

It's nice to see that Apple have finally added favicons to bookmarks in the bookmarks bar, but you cant turn the text off, and if you set the text to an empty string so your bookmark bar is just icons, Safari ignores your change. I want a bookmarks bar with just icons, dammit.

Feedback - Safari - Apple

Tell Apple about it.

 

[MauiPa]

Do people use Safari TP as the main browser?

I do, have for years. I encounter no problems. I have read some web sites use non standard codecs and other stuff that is non standard might not work - but that is why there are standards and why sites should comply

 

[MauiPa]

Again, this doesn't bring Sonoma features such as web apps , if you install on Ventura , right ?

It does if you install Sonoma.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

It does if you install Sonoma.

Impressive

 

[nvmls]

Since the last 3-4 years you can pin then on the left of your tab bar and it does just that.

"Just that"... sure.

 

[mudflap]

Do people use Safari TP as the main browser?

Yep. For years now.

 

[ErikGrim]

Do people use Safari TP as the main browser?

Yes. For some reason mainline Safari keeps logging me out of Facebook and any accounts that uses FB for logins (such as Kinja). TP has never had this issue.