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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!)
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Drew Baumann said 11:13AM on 3-18-2008
They included the click empty tab space to create new tab! Ive been waiting for this!
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Luigi193 said 11:14AM on 3-18-2008
Your right!!! Thats awesome!
DJCarbon43 said 11:14AM on 3-18-2008
Yay for ACID 3! ^_^
Can't wait till Webkit hits 100/100.
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kelly Denison cole said 11:15AM on 3-18-2008
the page loads blow
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William said 11:21AM on 3-18-2008
Windows version is 22.65 MB
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mingistech said 11:33AM on 3-18-2008
The Windows version was a 18.6MB download for me.
William said 12:17PM on 3-18-2008
More info on my install: Windows XP SP 2 under Parallels.
john said 11:23AM on 3-18-2008
Only 39 MB running software update under 10.5.2.
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agfrg said 1:26PM on 3-18-2008
Yeah, that's right, only 39MB.
Not tested yet, don't want to reboot. :)
estratton said 11:24AM on 3-18-2008
Any word on if it kills the current Saft build?
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Galley said 12:34PM on 3-18-2008
It is most definitely broken, and trying to find updated versions on the Saft site is an exercise in futility.
JD said 4:35PM on 3-18-2008
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.
Alex said 11:28AM on 3-18-2008
Oh Yea!
I just tried it out and it's the bomb diggidy!
http://hacktheiphoneitouch.blogspot.com/
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Aron Trimble said 11:32AM on 3-18-2008
Does it seem a little snappier to anyone else?
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Scott K said 11:34AM on 3-18-2008
Still crashes loading https behind a proxy. Useless while I am at work.
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iGO said 11:42AM on 3-18-2008
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!
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emil Hedaya said 11:44AM on 3-18-2008
It broke my 1Password button. If you use 1Password, I'd hold off.
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T56 said 11:45AM on 3-18-2008
Hey, was History Coverflow in 3.0? Or is that a brand new (and very cool) 3.1 feature?
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snverhallen said 11:49AM on 3-18-2008
What do you mean History Coverflow?
T56 said 11:54AM on 3-18-2008
Well, there's a Coverflow button named History Flow that shows your browserhistory in coverfow view. Very fast and extremely handy..