Apple released version 5.0.1 of its Safari browser last week. It fixes one major security vulnerability. More pleasantly, it turns on support for extensions, which Apple is now collecting in its new Extensions Gallery. The quantity of available add-ins is skimpy compared to Chrome or (especially) Firefox, but there’s already some good stuff —...
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Apple released an update to its Safari web browser Wednesday. Safari 5.0.1 is available from Apple as a free download for Windows and for Mac OS X (Leopard or better). Mac users can also find it in Software Update. This is an incremental upgrade, but it comes with one big new feature: Safari now...
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Apple’s Safari browser has a major security hole that malicious sites can use to steal your personal data, including your address and phone number. If you have any of the “AutoFill web forms” boxes checked, a site can snag information from your Address Book entry without your knowledge. To turn that feature off, open...
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One item Steve Jobs didn’t mention during his presentation at WWDC on Monday is Apple Safari 5’s prominent ad-blocking feature, which strips advertisements and other design elements from any web page that appears to be “an article,” with apparently grim implications for online publications. “Safari Reader removes annoying ads and other visual distractions from...
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Apple released an update to its Safari web browser Monday afternoon. We’ve been testing it for close to a full day, and we’ve found that Safari 5 performs as advertised: It’s faster, more capable and well worth the upgrade. Safari 5 was launched rather quietly at the end of the first day of the...
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After speedy new updates to Opera and Google Chrome, Safari’s looking pretty slow these days. Fortunately for Apple, Safari 5 might be ready to go at Apple’s developer conference, WWDC, later this week. Although the focus of WWDC looks like it will mostly be mobile — that impending new iPhone and the just-released iPad...
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Apple posted a showcase of “HTML5 and web standards” on its website Thursday that highlights the level of support for the emerging standard in the company’s Safari and Mobile Safari browsers. It’s nice to see Apple (or anyone for that matter) talking about HTML5 and mentioning more than just video. The site showcases HTML5...
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Yesterday’s release of Google’s Chrome 5 internet browser made it even more viable a Safari replacement than ever (if you can get over the design niggles, that is), but if a rather sly hint from Daring Fireball’s John Gruber is anything to go by, Apple may attempt to match Chrome and Firefox’s most interesting...
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