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Safari 5.1 brings Reading List, gestures, full-screen and more

by Victor Agreda, Jr. Jul 20th 2011 at 11:50AM

safari 5.1 availableAnother expected update today was Safari, and right on schedule 5.1 is now available. The new features include Reading List (similar to the venerable Instapaper) and multi-touch gestures beyond what was previously supported (earlier versions of Safari supported two-finger swipes to go forward and back when traversing web pages).

There's also full-screen browsing like that found in many other Lion apps, better search, a downloads popover, Resume (also found in Lion apps), and some welcome privacy and features like Private Autofill.

You can download Safari 5.1 here. You will need Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or newer.



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Carrespondent

Are there plans for Safari to include the syncing of bookmarks, history and possibly settings across Mac and PC versions (a la Chrome, Firefox)? I hope so.

July 21 2011 at 10:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ameya

I was hoping they would bring the popover download window to the pc version of safari... Disappointed a few more months and I won't care Mac mini here I come :D

July 20 2011 at 12:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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George

I think that's because overlays are an API in Lion and Windows doesn't have it available.

July 20 2011 at 4:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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codeman38

Yep, that's probably exactly the reason. The download popup isn't there in Safari 5.1 on Snow Leopard, either.

July 20 2011 at 10:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down
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