Safari Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Friday Favorite: Lazarus Extension for Safari saves your form text

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 16th, 2011)

Don't you hate that sinking feeling you get when you spend five to ten minutes filling out a form -- and then you lose all the data because of a hiccup in your Internet connection, or because of Safari's tab reloading quirks? Before that happens ...

Gmail's web app adds multiple accounts, mobile signature

by Mike Schramm (Sep 22nd, 2011)

I do have my Gmail account connected to my iPhone's Mail app through IMAP, but occasionally there are still times (mostly when searching my archived mail) that I need to use the mobile Safari web app version of the popular mail service. So it's ...

Mobile Safari still dominates mobile browsing

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 2nd, 2011)

Mobile Safari continues its reign as the dominant mobile browser according to new data from web analytics firm Net Applications. Mobile Safari grabs a respectable 53% of mobile browser usage share, while its closest competitor, Opera Mini, grabs ...

Safari browser growth outpaces Chrome in July

by Steven Sande (Aug 1st, 2011)

Apple's Safari browser is gaining usage share dramatically, with its largest increase ever during the month of July. Net Applications provides metrics on a regular basis showing how various web browsers are faring in terms of usage, and the July ...

OS X Lion Bug: Safari guzzling massive amounts of RAM

by Chris Rawson (Jul 27th, 2011)

After installing OS X Lion last week, one of the things I've noticed is that Safari tends to run away with enormous amounts of RAM over time. A subprocess called "Safari Web Content" will sometimes use over a gigabyte of RAM. Since my Mac maxes ...

1Password, Lion and that new Safari extension

by Dave Caolo (Jul 25th, 2011)

1Password version 3 was recently made available with Mac OS X Lion compatibility, enhanced keyboard shortcuts and, most notably for Safari users, a new Safari extension. The new extension borrows heavily from its Chrome counterpart and represents a ...

Lion: Restoring Safari's download list keyboard shortcut

by Steven Sande (Jul 23rd, 2011)

Oh, those poor Mac OS X Lion developers. They work their tails off to get a new version of OS X out to us, and then people immediately find things that they liked better in the old version. Red Sweater Software founder and über-geek ...

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

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 20th, 2011)

Another 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 ...

Full-screen web apps should get a JavaScript boost in iOS 5

by Mike Schramm (Jun 17th, 2011)

Lots of information about iOS 5 is still hidden under the developer NDA, but here's one tidbit that's sneaked out: Some web apps will be faster under the new operating system. So says one developer over on a coding message board; it confirms the ...

Safari 5.1 Developer Preview for Mac and Windows seeded to developers

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 7th, 2011)

In addition to developer previews of iOS 5 and Lion, Apple has seeded the developer preview of Safari 5.1 to Mac and Windows developers. According to Apple's Developer website, Safari 5.1 Developer Preview takes "advantage of new technologies, ...

Mac OS X Lion feature 'Reading List' to compete with Instapaper and ReadItLater

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 30th, 2011)

MacRumors has discovered a new Safari feature that will compete with Instapaper and ReadItLater in the latest Mac OS X Lion Developer build. The feature, called Reading List, allows users to save web pages for later reading. It's represented in the ...

Apple confirms some WebKit optimizations unavailable to iOS Apps

by Dana Franklin (Mar 18th, 2011)

The web performance enhancements included in Apple's latest mobile operating system, iOS 4.3, are exclusively available to the Mobile Safari web browser, an Apple spokesperson has confirmed. The optimizations, which double JavaScript performance in ...

Use AppleScript to open current Safari URL in Google Chrome

by TJ Luoma (Mar 14th, 2011)

I've been using John Gruber's suggestions from Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It to avoid installing Adobe Flash by using Google Chrome (which includes its own version of Flash) whenever I run into a page that has ...

Safari used to hijack MacBook Pro at Pwn2Own 2011

by TJ Luoma (Mar 10th, 2011)

A flaw in WebKit, the engine that underlies Safari, Mobile Safari, and several other browsers, was found to be vulnerable in this year's "Pwn2Own" competition, as reported by ZDNet and many others. This is noteworthy for several reasons: first, ...

Pixelfari browser lets you surf like it's 1982

by Steven Sande (Feb 17th, 2011)

Not every app on your Mac has to be useful -- sometimes you just want to have a little retro fun. That's the idea behind Pixelfari, a free "pixely, 8-bitty" version of the Apple Safari web browser. The browser was the brainchild of Neven Mrgan, who ...

iWork.com beta adds Keynote animations, presentation embedding

by Steven Sande (Jan 10th, 2011)

Users of Apple's iWork.com public beta received an email this morning with an "important service message" about new features and enhancements to the service. In the email, Apple notes that it's now possible to play back Keynote '09 presentations on ...