Safari 5 - now available to download

Sad Professor

Despite a false start, Safari 5 is now up and available to download from Software Update or from the Apple site.

http://www.apple.com/safari/

Apple today released Safari 5, the latest version of the world's fastest and most innovative web browser, featuring the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4,* and the ability to choose Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari's search field. Available for both Mac and Windows, Safari 5 includes improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies that allow web developers to create rich, dynamic websites. With Safari 5, developers can now create secure Safari Extensions to customize and enhance the browsing experience.

Sad Professor

Whoa, very fast. And I love the Reader feature. Great for newspaper sites.

babypink

definitely better than Safari 4.0 ---- giving it a fair run for the week. Will decide on Friday whether it replaces Chrome as #1 browser!

displaced dub

im still finding chrome faster although i really like the reader option.

looks like i will be staying with chrome

Gerard_Smith

Reader has yet to kick on any article I have tried to read. Can someone give me a link for something that definitely works from them so I can see if I have an issue?

Sad Professor

Gerard_Smith wrote: »

Reader has yet to kick on any article I have tried to read. Can someone give me a link for something that definitely works from them so I can see if I have an issue?

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0608/1224272053591.html

It works on most sites for me.

Gerard_Smith

Ahh its works there. It has yet to work on any tech or humor site I have tired yet though.

Here is the arstechnica article on Safari 5

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/safari-5-faster-less-clutter-secure-browser-extensions.ars

And here is todays main article on Cracked.com

http://www.cracked.com/article_18570_6-companies-that-make-money-solving-problems-they-made-up.html

As you can see, nothing.

Edit: I have also not had it kick in on any articles on the BBC news Web site.

Sad Professor

Gerard_Smith wrote: »

Ahh its works there. It has yet to work on any tech or humor site I have tired yet though.

Here is the arstechnica article on Safari 5

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/safari-5-faster-less-clutter-secure-browser-extensions.ars

And here is todays main article on Cracked.com

http://www.cracked.com/article_18570_6-companies-that-make-money-solving-problems-they-made-up.html

As you can see, nothing.

Edit: I have also not had it kick in on any articles on the BBC news Web site.

Both of those links work for me. BBC articles seem okay too.

Are you getting it on this one:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10262088.stm

Gerard_Smith

Sad Professor wrote: »

Both of those links work for me. BBC articles seem okay too.

Are you getting it on this one:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10262088.stm

Huh, now it has started appearing for me on those sites. This is very odd.

Sad Professor

Any Safari add-ons installed?

Gerard_Smith

Sad Professor wrote: »

Any Safari add-ons installed?

1Password, Glims, greasekit.

Gerard_Smith

Another question. HTML 5 full screen isn't actually make the video fullscreen. Its just making it fill the browser. This happening for anyone else?

Sad Professor

Yeah, same for me on Youtube.

ronnie3585

Delighted with the return of the blue loading bar.

Noticeably quicker too.

Stainless_Steel

Surely the bottleneck for website loading is you broadband download speed?

I always here people comparing browser speeds and it always baffles me because I never notice a speed diff! Have you guys got millisecond impatience levels?! Lol

displaced dub

Downloaded "Perfect Browser" for my iPad last night.

Its the best browser i have used to date, much faster than either Chrome or Safari and better looking too.

Sad Professor

For anyone looking for extensions, here is a list of what has been released so far:

http://safariextensions.tumblr.com/

RichTea

Nice! Just downloaded this a few minutes ago and I'm already hooked on Reader.

Normally I find it a bit of a strain to read articles on websites. Not anymore!:D

silvine

If you want the Reader function in Chrome install the "Readability Redux" extension.

conor.hogan.2

I do not get the obsession with readers - i just visit the full website.

I tried that tumblr site - my bad that site updates a lot some nice html5 extensions there now.

nesf

Hmm, it is a lot faster than Firefox. Might change, depending on what extensions come out.

Sad Professor

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

I do not get the obsession with readers - i just visit the full website.

So do I when the website is well designed and easy to read. But half the time that simply isn't the case. I go to most websites to read to the content, not stare at an unsightly mishmash of ads, social networking links and other crap flashing at me from the side of the screen. Then there's this annoying business of needlessly splitting articles into multiple pages. For anyone who hates bad web design, Safari Reader (and Readability) is a great solution.

conor.hogan.2

True - but the content on those sites is usually more crap than the design so I dont bother visiting them regularly.

I dont see any reason to use reader as it is an extra unnecessary step and rss just doesnt seem worth it either.

Maybe I just visit the right/wrong sites?

ZENER

Keeps crashing on me !! Powermac Dual G5 - 3GB - Leopard 10.5.8.
No add-ins installed. Disabling Javascript seems to help.

Happens mostly on facebook !

Ken

nesf

Ad-Block is out for Safari5: http://lifehacker.com/5561134/adblock-for-safari

Yah for ad free browsing etc.

Sad Professor

ZENER wrote: »

Keeps crashing on me !! Powermac Dual G5 - 3GB - Leopard 10.5.8.
No add-ins installed. Disabling Javascript seems to help.

Happens mostly on facebook !

Ken

Are you definitely using the Leopard version?

ZENER

It was installed through Software Updater so I would presume it's the right one. But worth checking out now that you mention it !

Thanks Prof

Ken

Sad Professor

I assume it installed the right version. If it keeps happening, maybe try deleting Safari's plist file and disabling all plugins (either in Safari's security prefs or by manually removing them). You could also try testing it under a different user account and see if the problem recurs. Might narrow it down a bit.

I haven't had any crashes so far, but I don't use Facebook.

ZENER

Ok, I did a fresh install of Leopard on my Powermac G5 but Safari still crashes !! No particular site though - it seems to be random. Safari 5 on my MBP (Snow Leopard 10.6.4) seems fine though.

Not only that but Boards also crashes Opera and Firefox !! Not relevant here I know but thought I'd just mention it.

Disabling Javascript on Safari seems to help. All updates have been applied by the way.

Ken