Safari Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Safari could have been called 'Freedom'

by Randy Nelson (Dec 20th, 2012)

Earlier this week, former Apple engineer Don Melton started his own personal blog. Yesterday, he recounted the time during his management of the web browser project he'd started at 1 Infinite Loop, when he first heard the name "Safari" (about a month before it shipped in January 2003). But before ...

Apple.com 'start page' lives

by Dave Caolo (Nov 15th, 2012)

For a long time, Apple customers launching the company's Safari web browser for the first time were directed to a "start page" at apple.com/startpage/. It disappeared for a while but oh, look! It's back! AppleInsider noticed that the page is again available after a months-long absence. It ...

TweetBot for Mac updated to 1.01, adds support for Reading List and j/k navigation

by Mike Schramm (Nov 7th, 2012)

TweetBot for Mac has been updated with just a .01 version, but the update still adds in some pretty powerful functionality. First of all, the update makes TweetBot compatible with Apple's Reading List service, so you can now add content to your Safari Reading List directly from the Twitter ...

Chrome 19 found to be fastest browser on Mac

by Mike Wehner (Nov 6th, 2012)

Google's Chrome browser has quickly become the choice for many web denizens searching for the fastest browsing experience. And while the latest browser report from New Relic confirms that Chrome is indeed your best bet for speed, the latest versions aren't actually getting any faster. The data ...

iPad 101: Clearing individual website cookies

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 6th, 2012)

If you are like me, you open your iPad's web browser several times day, either by launching mobile Safari directly or by clicking a link in a third-party app. After a short time, you will accrue a long list of cookies, placed there by websites that want to save your login preferences or track ...

iPhoto, Aperture, and Safari all get updates

by Steven Sande (Nov 1st, 2012)

Wow, it's a busy day at Apple. First we had the iOS 6.0.1 release, then developers got the iOS 6.1 beta and a new version of Xcode, and now Apple's dropped iPhoto, Aperture, and Safari updates for the Mac. iPhoto received a bump to version 9.4.2, with a surprising number of new features and ...

Can't save PDF files from Safari with Mountain Lion? Here's the fix

by Mel Martin (Oct 29th, 2012)

There's quite a bit of traffic on Apple's discussion boards (and others) about a problem with saving PDF files that have been viewed in Safari with Mountain Lion. Safari can view PDF files just fine, but for many people the problems start when you go to save the files or print them. The files ...

Mac 101: Safari bookmark shortcuts

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 12th, 2012)

Once you memorize the patterns, keyboard shortcuts can be huge time savers. Some easy-to-remember keystrokes are available in Safari and give you quick access to your bookmarked URLs. In this Mac 101, we will show you how to organize your bookmarks bar and use the keyboard shortcuts to maximize ...

Secure browsing on iOS in Safari or iCab Mobile

by TJ Luoma (Sep 30th, 2012)

A friend who values her privacy asked: "How do you delete Google search history on an iPhone?" There are two ways to do this, the first of which is to go to the Settings app, scroll down to 'Safari' and then click the 'Clear History' button as shown above. The second can be done from inside ...

Safari exploit used to gain control of iPhone at Pwn2Own

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 20th, 2012)

A team of Dutch researchers used a WebKit vulnerability in Mobile Safari to gain access to a fully patched iPhone 4S during a recent mobile Pwn2Own challenge. The attack circumvented Apple's code-signing requirements and grabbed the entire address book, photo and video database and web browsing ...

iOS 6: Safari and iCloud Tabs

by Chris Rawson (Sep 19th, 2012)

With iOS 6, Safari gets two features that competing mobile browsers have boasted for some time: tab syncing across multiple devices and a fullscreen viewing mode on the iPhone. iCloud tab syncing is a deceptively simple but powerful feature that integrates the browsing experience across ...

Trigger private browsing in Safari for specific sites

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jul 30th, 2012)

Tony over at Macolyte has posted a good tip on how to enable private browsing in Safari on a particular site. Why would you want this? It's good for when you're viewing financial sites and other sensitive personal data where you don't want to leave a tracking history, for instance. Tony ...

You're the Pundit: Identify the Icons

by Erica Sadun (Jul 27th, 2012)

When it comes to evaluating the next big thing, we turn to our secret weapon: the TUAW braintrust. We put the question to you and let you have your go at it. Today's topic is the iPhone prototype icons. We were having a look through the prototype gallery over on our sister site Engadget, and a ...

Daily Update for July 26, 2012

by Steven Sande (Jul 26th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Mountain Lion 101: Safari

by Steven Sande (Jul 26th, 2012)

Apple's venerable Mac Web browser, Safari, was updated to version 6.0 yesterday with the release of OS X Mountain Lion with many new features and one glaring omission. Safari 6 is also available for Lion users. First, let's talk about the omission -- while earlier versions of Safari offered an ...