Apple Seeds Safari 5.1 Developer Preview for Mac and Windows to Developers

[MacRumors]

Alongside yesterday's high-profile developer seeds of OS X Lion Developer Preview 4, the first iOS 5 beta, and several iCloud-related betas including iTunes 10.5 and iPhoto 9.2, Apple also provided developers with a developer preview version of Safari 5.1 for both Mac and Windows. According to an announcement on Apple's developer portal, Safari 5.1 brings a number of enhancements to the company's flagship browser and will be available to the public sometime this summer.

Safari and Mac Developer Program members can download Safari 5.1 Developer Preview and take advantage of new technologies, including support for full-screen webpages, media caching with the HTML5 application cache, and better graphics acceleration on Windows.

A number of new APIs supporting Safari Extensions are also included in the update, which will presumably be made available to the public alongside the release of OS X Lion.

A separate Safari 5.0.6 release is available for developers to test on Mac OS X Leopard systems.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Safari 5.1 Developer Preview for Mac and Windows to Developers

 

[Hellhammer]

So, is this available for Snow Leopard or Lion? I know Lion's Safari is 5.1 by default but this could be just an upgraded version for Lion.

 

[MonkeySee....]

yeah, available to the public in the summer which starts 21st June in the UK i believe, so this I assume will be released for all platforms when lion becomes available?

 

[dickie001x]

Check the new setting!

 

[e-coli]

I certainly hope this brings dramatic improvements over the current version. Safari is currently so unbelievably slow I can't even bring myself to use it. Pinwheels everywhere, and I have the latest hardware with maxed out RAM.

After the last update, this Apple's browser became really, really bad.

 

[Žalgiris]

I certainly hope this brings dramatic improvements over the current version. Safari is currently so unbelievably slow I can't even bring myself to use it. Pinwheels everywhere, and I have the latest hardware with maxed out RAM.

After the last update, this Apple's browser became really, really bad.

Safari is pretty fast here and this version is even faster.

 

[Yvan256]

I certainly hope this brings dramatic improvements over the current version. Safari is currently so unbelievably slow I can't even bring myself to use it. Pinwheels everywhere, and I have the latest hardware with maxed out RAM.

After the last update, this Apple's browser became really, really bad.

Mac mini Core 2 Duo with 8 GiB RAM and stock 5400 RPM 2.5" drive. Safari isn't slow at all. Plug-ins and Java are disabled.

Try to disable your plug-ins (in the Security options). Flash is probably the problem.

 

[MonkeySee....]

I certainly hope this brings dramatic improvements over the current version. Safari is currently so unbelievably slow I can't even bring myself to use it. Pinwheels everywhere, and I have the latest hardware with maxed out RAM.

After the last update, this Apple's browser became really, really bad.

wow i've had no issues with it on my iMac. really quick.

 

[koen]

I certainly hope this brings dramatic improvements over the current version. Safari is currently so unbelievably slow I can't even bring myself to use it. Pinwheels everywhere, and I have the latest hardware with maxed out RAM.

After the last update, this Apple's browser became really, really bad.

I certainly hope then that you filed plenty of bug reports with Apple, so they know about these issues and fix it.

 

[e-coli]

I certainly hope then that you filed plenty of bug reports with Apple, so they know about these issues and fix it.

Plenty.

 

[Mobius 1]

Check the new setting!

yeah, it's on chrome and firefox for the past 2 years or something



i hate how safari takes up HDD space by collecting every single data from a website.

and the extensions suck compared to firefox's



LONG LIVE FIREFOX

 

[aimbdd]

Ha. Firefox is such bloat on macs.
It used to be good...

 

[42streetsdown]

i wonder what the differences are between this and the webkit nightlies

 

[blackboxxx]

i wonder what the differences are between this and the webkit nightlies

Safari 5.1 uses Webkit2 that has multi-process architecture with tab and plugin sandboxing.
This is not yet available in the nightlies.

 

[caspersoong]

I hope it bloats less on PC. Or I will have to get a Mac soon.

 

[MonkeySee....]

I hope it bloats less on PC. Or I will have to get a Mac soon.

You're gonna get a mac just for safari!? good going!