Safari 3.1 is available

Posted Mar 18th 2008 11:00AM by Dave Caolo
Filed under: Software, Internet, Internet Tools

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.

Tags: safari, safari 3.1, Safari3.1, software update, SoftwareUpdate

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)

3-18-2008 @ 11:13AM

Drew Baumann said...

They included the click empty tab space to create new tab! Ive been waiting for this!

3-18-2008 @ 11:14AM

Luigi193 said...

Your right!!! Thats awesome!

3-18-2008 @ 11:14AM

DJCarbon43 said...

Yay for ACID 3! ^_^

Can't wait till Webkit hits 100/100.

3-18-2008 @ 11:15AM

kelly Denison cole said...

the page loads blow

3-18-2008 @ 11:21AM

William said...

Windows version is 22.65 MB

3-18-2008 @ 11:33AM

mingistech said...

The Windows version was a 18.6MB download for me.

3-18-2008 @ 12:17PM

William said...

More info on my install: Windows XP SP 2 under Parallels.

3-18-2008 @ 11:23AM

john said...

Only 39 MB running software update under 10.5.2.

3-18-2008 @ 1:26PM

agfrg said...

Yeah, that's right, only 39MB.

Not tested yet, don't want to reboot. :)

3-18-2008 @ 11:24AM

estratton said...

Any word on if it kills the current Saft build?

3-18-2008 @ 12:34PM

Galley said...

It is most definitely broken, and trying to find updated versions on the Saft site is an exercise in futility.

3-18-2008 @ 4:35PM

JD said...

Last update, someone instructed thusly to get Saft to cooperate with a minor update of Safari. It might not work for this update if they changed actual Safari functionality.

1- Show Package Contents on Saft (right click)
2- in Contents/Resources/Saft.bundle
3- Show Package Contents again
4- open Contents/Info.plist
5- change "SaftSupportedSafariBuild" Array with [whatever it says when you go to About Safari -- mine is currently 5523.15]

Let me know if it works -- I can't bear even a day without Saft, so I won't risk it myself yet.

3-18-2008 @ 11:28AM

Alex said...

Oh Yea!
I just tried it out and it's the bomb diggidy!
http://hacktheiphoneitouch.blogspot.com/

3-18-2008 @ 11:32AM

Aron Trimble said...

Does it seem a little snappier to anyone else?

3-18-2008 @ 11:34AM

Scott K said...

Still crashes loading https behind a proxy. Useless while I am at work.

3-18-2008 @ 11:42AM

iGO said...

Slowest Version yet!...In my Windows desktop, 15 to 20 seconds to load the homepage, after Safari displays. Hitting the back button, after viewing a video...easily 10 to 15. I see the back button shows depressed but just hangs for 15 seconds before the page actually goes back. Tried restarting but same exact results... Very poor from my experience. Thank Mozilla for Firefox!

3-18-2008 @ 11:44AM

emil Hedaya said...

It broke my 1Password button. If you use 1Password, I'd hold off.

3-18-2008 @ 11:45AM

T56 said...

Hey, was History Coverflow in 3.0? Or is that a brand new (and very cool) 3.1 feature?

3-18-2008 @ 11:49AM

snverhallen said...

What do you mean History Coverflow?

3-18-2008 @ 11:54AM

T56 said...

Well, there's a Coverflow button named History Flow that shows your browserhistory in coverfow view. Very fast and extremely handy..

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