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Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 177 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 177 includes fixes and updates for Web Inspector, CSS, Rendering, Popover, Media, JavaScript, Web API, Accessibility, and Apple Pay.

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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Kind of disappointed with the implementation of Profiles on Safari by Apple.

Unless I am missing something, it does not actually completely separate the different Profiles?

Like I would like to have a „Private“ and „Work“ Profile with its own Bookmarks, Saved Passwords and Reading list but as far as I could see, it just throws everything together, which makes Profiles somewhat pointless to have?

I don’t need to have my Tool logins from work saved on my Private profile, nor do I need my private bookmarks appear among my work related things
 
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I've been using STP as my default browser for some time now. It has a few of the features slated for Safari 17 in Sonoma. Very stable and no compatibility issues yet.
 
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Please correct me if I am wrong, but aren't passwords a system service in Keychain.

If correct that would explain why your different profiles have all of your passwords.
 
I've been using mainly Edge for two years now, although my heart lies with Firefox since its release.

Edge is great, and I think it's the best option we have today in terms of balance of features (compatibility with other OS, performance on any machine, UI, whatever), but it's not clean enough for my liking, and it has too many options that I don't use and pollutes the UI. On the other hand, Safari's way too clean and lacks some options I like (such as leaving only the favicon for bookmarks).

Anyway, I hope Safari finds it's way eventually as little by little some other apps became very good options over the competition, such as Apple Music and Maps. I finally made the switch to them this year and am very happy).
 
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contacos said:
Kind of disappointed with the implementation of Profiles on Safari by Apple.

Unless I am missing something, it does not actually completely separate the different Profiles?

Like I would like to have a „Private“ and „Work“ Profile with its own Bookmarks, Saved Passwords and Reading list but as far as I could see, it just throws everything together, which makes Profiles somewhat pointless to have?

I don’t need to have my Tool logins from work saved on my Private profile, nor do I need my private bookmarks appear among my work related things
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I just checked and mine has separate profiles for data history and favorites for each profiles I created.
 
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I like Safari and want to use it, but tab search is lacking. Chrome lets me move between tabs across all Chrome windows with the shift-command-A hotkey and lets me select a tab without ever leaving the keyboard. It's so annoying that Safari is almost functional, but drops the ball at the finish line forcing me to click the tab.
 
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If only I could install uBlock Origin on it, I would switch to Safari as my main browser immediately. :apple:

...but I can't, so I'm still on Firefox. 🥲
 
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omiks said:
I've been using mainly Edge for two years now, although my heart lies with Firefox since its release.

Edge is great, and I think it's the best option we have today in terms of balance of features (compatibility with other OS, performance on any machine, UI, whatever), but it's not clean enough for my liking, and it has too many options that I don't use and pollutes the UI. On the other hand, Safari's way too clean and lacks some options I like (such as leaving only the favicon for bookmarks).

Anyway, I hope Safari finds it's way eventually as little by little some other apps became very good options over the competition, such as Apple Music and Maps. I finally made the switch to them this year and am very happy).
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What's your take on its AI chat co-pilot ?
 
Well its been quite a few weeks since WWDC... So I thought I would see if there is anything more re: Safari's support for PWAs using the years-old standard for other browsers. Most interested in local storage. How is IndexedDB handled ?? Does it get deleted if inactive N days ?? Nothing yet that I can find. Not feeling good about this -- why is there so little info ?? Seems that Apple might just be providing a "PWA Wrapper" for running a web page vs. a pure Web App install which respects local storage permanency. Hope I am wrong.
 
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Well its been quite a few weeks since WWDC... So I thought I would see if there is anything more re: Safari's support for PWAs using the years-old standard for other browsers. Most interested in local storage. How is IndexedDB handled ?? Does it get deleted if inactive N days ?? Nothing yet that I can find. Not feeling good about this -- why is there so little info ?? Seems that Apple might just be providing a "PWA Wrapper" for running a web page vs. a pure Web App install which respects local storage permanency. Hope I am wrong.
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I've been using the new Safari PWA wrapper to wrap the JIRA website since beta 1 of Sonoma and it's worked great. It feels like an, restarts and opens when rebooting the computer, etc...
 
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I've been using the new Safari PWA wrapper to wrap the JIRA website since beta 1 of Sonoma and it's worked great. It feels like an, restarts and opens when rebooting the computer, etc...
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Yes the "PWA wrapper" feature is a benefit, but does Apple's implementation mean that the IndexedDB storage component of the wrapped app is put in a separate location which is accessible on-line/off-line and permanent vs. the IndexedDB setup and run by the browser when you open the web page ?? Pretty important distinction. Hopeful we will find out. Thx.
 
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