Apple Safari is Apple's web browser that comes bundled with the most recent macOS. Safari is faster and more energy efficient than other browsers, so sites are more responsive and your notebook battery lasts longer between charges. Built-in privacy features are stronger than ever. It works with iCloud to let you browse seamlessly across all your devices. And it gives you great ways to find and share your favorites. Put it all together, and no other browser offers such a rich web experience.
Safari for Mac has a condensed and minimalistic interface that offers mac users faster, private browsing with fewer interruptions and extended battery life.
When you download Safari for Mac you will get enhanced protection against invasive malicious software and customizable private browsing options to protect your information.
While browsing privately in Safari, pages that you visit in private mode will not appear in your browsing history list.
The Safari browser uses fewer system resources and allows extended browsing times while iCloud allows you to sync all your web activity seamlessly across devices.
A vast library of extensions available to enhance usability and productivity in the workplace or at home.
How to Update Safari on a Mac?
- Open "System Preferences" and click on the "Software Update" icon.
- If you have an update available it will list the version of macOS that you will be updating too, and what is going to change.
- To start the update there will be an "Update" button.
Note: this is on macOS Catalina as older versions require that you use the "App Store" to update Safari.
Safari Features
- Intelligent Tracking Prevention - enhanced privacy protection
- Reader mode - read without ads and other distractions
- Safari App Extensions - to customize the browsing experience on macOS
- Web Inspector - create custom audits with the new audit tab for running tests against web content
- Use iCloud to sync seamlessly across all your devices
- Browse Desktop sites with Ipad or iPhone
- Enhanced support for the most popular productivity websites
- Dark mode support for websites
- Enhanced password protection
- Sign in With Apple account to Safari now supported
- New Changes sidebar in the Elements tab
- Added the Device Settings menu
- New Security tab in the resources view
- Safari Developer Tools
- Pay with Apple Pay
- Customizable RSS feeds
Compatibility
The default browser for Apple devices and there are no official versions of Safari for other devices. Apple no longer supports Mac OS 10.14 for Macbooks older than 2012.
Known Issues
- No support for WebSQL
- No support for Legacy Safari Extensions
- Can't update Safari on OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or earlier
- no support for windows
- Poor support for new web technologies and open source formats
CSS
- Fixed MediaQueryList.matches to update the parent document layout for viewport-dependent media queries.
- Fixed transfers of min and max sizes for CSS aspect-ratio to be constrained by defined sizes.
- Fixed gap to be accounted for by using the unclamped subgrid track sizes to compute track positions.
- Fixed calculating block size to use the correct box-sizing.
- Fixed the transferred min and max sizes to be constrained by defined sizes.
- Fixed: Use intrinsic ratio of replaced elements when computing flex sizes.
- Fixed negative content sizes when using box-sizing: border-box with border and padding.
- Fixed setting scrollTop on a fixed element with overflow breaking scrolling on a page with overscroll-behavior: none.
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