Ryan Grier was the first of many to submit the news about the next public beta of Apple’s Safari browser. Safari can be downloaded here or via OS X’s Software Update. Update: On other browser news, Epiphany for GNOME 0.5 was released, while this week is the 10th anniversary of the release of the first graphical browser, Mosaic.
Safari Beta 2 (Build 73) Available
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Finally, Safari gets tabs – great stuff! Overall speed improvements also. Nice to see Apple coming up with a great browser for the mac…. and it’s still a beta. Nice one Apple
I’ve seen reports of problems with Tabbed browsing, but I have had no problems. Go Safari!!
>>>“I’ve seen reports of problems with Tabbed browsing”
Was that a subtle troll atempt?
Tell me, what “reports” have you seen?
I so hope that was a joke MM. The idea that you if you say something potentially slightly negative about Apple you are a troll is a stupid one.
Take it easy.
Was that a subte flame war attempt?
LET THE WAR BEGIN!!!
JIIII-HAD!
I’ve been using a tabbed browsing private beta for over a month now, and although I found it to be pretty unstable (crashing once a day or so) I had no problems with the tabbed browsing functionality. Safari still has problems displaying some websites that look fine on IE and Moz, but I figure that will improve with time. I cut Safari some slack while it’s still in beta, and I still use it as my primary browser becasue it’s so damned fast.
If you have multiple macs, as I do (at least one for each of the family), then you probably download updates to the desktop and run them on each machine.
For the Safari update it must be done from software update, Not installer.
One solution is to copy it to each machine and then run software update if you don’t want to download multiple times (Love this analogue modem).
The crashes are probably due to the fact that you are using a private beta not deemed ready for public beta testing. That’s about like complaining when a nightly build crashes.
I agree. No complaints about the crashes. Just mentioning them.
I tossed the Safari preferences file in my home/library/preferences directory and now everything is OK. Safari enhancer doesn’t work, but I think they need to update it to V73 (the latest works with v71 I think).
Nicest surprise — You can open all the links in a toolbar drop down menu in tabs at once. (like all news sites or whatever).
Aaah… this version of Safari broke both hotmail and mail.yahoo when trying to compose emails!! Not only doesn’t send out the emails (form doesn’t work!) but I can’t select any text fields in order to write in them. Textareas work, but not the text fields… Build67 used to work ok for this matter.
BTW, I just woke up and the app was NOT in the software update, I had to download it from the net…. Do you think that Apple got many reports about the bug and they took it out temporarily?
And yes, cookies don’t work yet. But they did fix the <P>/<FONT> bug where if you had a <P> right after a <FONT> tag, it will forget FONT’s settings and it will reset the size to 3 instead of 2.
operating systems?
Hey, what is the command line command to enable the Debug menu again? It was just a one liner, but I can’t remember it now. (please don’t point me to Safari enhancer, I don’t want to use a hack app that only works with specific safari apps)
The command is : defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
But i still can’t find the option for enabling tabs…
Hey Anonymous, OSNews is about operating systems, those thing which affect or are essential to operating systems, and anything that OS enthusiasts would find interesting.
Remember when trolls didn’t hide behind “Anonymous” when they posted?
… you just need to go to the normal preferences. This is no longer a debug menu option.
Safari –> Preferences –> Tabs –> Enable Tabbed Browsing.
I like it.
This is the first I’ve seen of Safari’s tabbed browsing functionality. I didn’t take the time to locate one of the leaked betas. This version seems much more polished than v60.
ROFL!! No, I was not trolling! As I said, I have no problem with tabbed browsing, but I did see on MacInTouch and/or MacFixit that there were reports of some people having problems. It was something about the tabbed windows being distorted or something like that. Of course, whenever an update comes out for anything, there are reports of problems for some – that seems to be the usual these days.
The only problem I have with the Safari tabs is that the text fone on them is black on a grey background making very difficult to read, especially if the person that is using it does not have a good vision.
Mosaic was not the first browser. It was the first graphical browser. Web pages aren’t inherently graphic -that was added extra later on. If web pages are designed for it, Lynx and other non graphical browser work fine. Hyperlinks can be browsed without the mouse just fine, in Lynx.
Mosaic was the first widely used www browser. It is the first of its class.
OSNews has full support for Lynx, Links and w3m text browsers btw and it renders very nicely on them (no ads).
I like tabbed browsing, but one thing I liked in Safari is that its controls were lean and did not interfere with the main subject of browsing: seeing pages.
Tabbed browsing is great, but on the other hand, it adds overhead. It takes a whole band of pixels. May be a way to have a lean GUI and all the functionality would be to have a bar on the left side of the window (as MSIE did). Provided that there’s a good contrast between font color and background, it’d be a good way to access the info and save space on the screen.
Ummm, the first web browser was called WorldWideWeb and was developed on NeXT by Tim Berners-Lee, while he invented the html spec to test the features and ideas. Mosaic came after …
> And yes, cookies don’t work yet.
Try deleting the previously stored cookie (Preferences/Security/Show cookies) and see if that fixes your problem. It seems the cookie format has changed somewhat – I had set a cookie for my personal website using SafariCookieCutter, and it blocked any new ones from getting stored…
I just got build 73 and its very nice, one niggle i do have however is the tabs don’t load in the background like they do on Mozilla or camino.
At the moment i am just testing it but so far…nice.
hmm… actually some of the cookie code works better now. Hotmail and mail.Yahoo are still bugged though…
I can’t wait till some of the additions are merged into the next version of KDE. I moved from Mozilla to Konqueror because of the share crappiness of Mozila. The bloat, the XUL interface, everything needs to be re-written from the ground up with out the dogmatic view of multi-plaform bloody everything that the Mozilla “community” has.
As for the MM, good lord, find a life and install it. If someone comments that there is a bug in beta, the best reply would be to say, “ensure you report the error to Apple so it can get fixed”.
Mosaic was the first browser to support inline graphics, a feature which Tim Berners-Lee heavily criticised at the time. As the article states, Mosaic wasn’t the first browser with a graphical interface.
Safari freezes on me constantly when trying to use forums, such as the YellowTab forum and others. Anyone else have this problem? It’s been here since Safari first was released and this beta still has the problem. Yes, I’ve reported it. I don’t think Apple gives a crap about anything I report because I’m not asking for features, I’m asking for what is there already to work better. They’re not keen on that these days.
Hey Cracked Butter, I think if you go to the tab prefs and set it to new tab, not selected they pop up in the background.
This vesion of Safari is a lot faster then the V6x versions but still crashes once a day. Go beta!