Safari 3.1 is available

In keeping with the 2008 tradition of Tuesday morning updates, Apple released Safari 3.1 today for both OS X and Windows -- marking the transition out of beta status for the Windows build. At 143MB (for the Leopard version, at least), there's a lot of changes, including

Improved JavaScript performance
Standards support, including CSS 3 web fonts, HTML 5 video and audio elements, and SVG advanced text
Developer benefits like editing CSS in the Web Inspector
Caps lock alert in password fields (Yay!)

There's much more, of course, and you can read the full change log here. Note that installation requires a restart. Apple's page describes Safari as "the world's fastest browser," but of course your mileage may vary.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

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Source: http://www.apple.com/safari/

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babarali

i don't know this thing so i'll no pass the comments

April 22 2008 at 3:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

meteorplum

3.1 seems to have broken page up/down using the Fn-arrow key combo on my G4 PowerBook running Tiger. When it's broken, each page up/down moves two windows-full of text. The weird thing is, it seems to be broken only in looking at RSS feeds of a certain length or less. Currently, it appears that it's definitely happening where the screen is displaying about 1/10 of the total feed, but everything works if the screen/content ratio goes up to 1/15. Very strange indeed.

March 20 2008 at 7:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kennee Wong

Anyone noticed that Apple has removed the ability to open previous and next page as tabs with the third button click?

I'm missing this feature badly. BTW the double click to open new tab is kinda neat.

March 20 2008 at 3:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

martin

Yup - somehow, the Safari (on Tiger, iBook G4) update has broken gmail; when I press the shift key whilst writing a message the input box loses focus and I have to use the mouse to get back to the box. Which is quite annoying.

March 19 2008 at 4:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dom Barnes

Anyone else having problems opening links set to open in a new window? Doesn't seem to wanna play nice for me

March 19 2008 at 4:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dom Barnes

Just tried the Acid test on various browsers.
Safari 3.1 - 76/100
Camino 1.6b3- 53/100
Firefox 2.0.0.12 - 52/100

Win for Safari 3.1

March 19 2008 at 4:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fuzzmanmatt

3.1 broke my arrow key scrolling in Google Reader. It seems to work everywhere else, though.

March 19 2008 at 3:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James

Concerning the Acid3 test; RealPlayer is getting a higher score than any other browser I have. 74 vs. 75.

March 19 2008 at 2:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James

I feel like a traitor saying this, but I just downloaded Firefox 3b4 and I'm lovin' it. It starts up quicker, loads pages quicker, and looks almost identical (maybe a little more cluttered) but I'm gonna stick with it until Safari bumps it up to match.

Ever since Safari 3 was released, I've gotten numerous random crashes. This new release didn't change that :'(

March 19 2008 at 2:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ian

Can you run both 3 and 3.1 or is it upgrade only?

Thanks.

March 19 2008 at 12:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply