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Apple launches Safari 3.1

updated 09:35 am EDT, Tue March 18, 2008

Apple launches Safari 3.1

Continuing its spate of updates on Tuesdays, Apple has released Safari 3.1, the latest version of its proprietary web browser. The update supports the new audio and video tags of the HTML 5 standard, and is claimed to be the first browser with support for CSS animations, as opposed to static sheets. The software also introduces support for CSS web fonts, which gives designers the ability to pick custom styles without worrying about the ones a visitor already has.

Safari 3.1 is free for both Macs and PCs. The Mac version is a 39MB download, and requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher, along with 256MB of memory. Windows systems must have XP or Vista, and a 500MHz processor.

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jfelbab
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03/18, 09:52am | report spam | close Reply |
Noticeably faster

This thing seems to really fly. I don't know if it's just that the caches are flushed or whether they have improved the code but this 3.1 version of Safari is loading pages faster than I can ever recall.

Well done Apple.

JimiMac
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03/18, 09:52am | report spam | close Reply |
Yikes!! SLOW!!!!

The Update slowed my page loading down big time!!! Got several spinning rainbows just loading this page!

JimiMac
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03/18, 09:57am | report spam | close Reply |
OK, restarted again

seems fine now

bhuot
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03/18, 10:08am | report spam | close Reply |
surfing safari update?

When is the Surfing Safari blog going to give a comprehensive list of updates like they did with 3.0?

jpellino
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03/18, 10:17am | report spam | close Reply |
spate?

what spate?

Mr. Fartleberry
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03/18, 10:28am | report spam | close Reply |
Yawn

Gee more garbage animations to block. How thoughtful. Still no bookmarks sort? I'm not a FFx guy but the Beta looks very good to me.

BTW correct terminology is Spinning Beachball. Seen my share of those. Sort of like "do you want to force quit?" Yeah, like I have any other option.

Roger@MacNN
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03/18, 10:30am | report spam | close Reply |
re: spate

For a while now since the Macworld expo, Apple has been releasing updates to one thing or another on Tuesdays.

climacs
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03/18, 10:36am | report spam | close Reply |
definitely faster

wow, I surf Safari all day and it is definitely faster now.

DahlBryn
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03/18, 10:57am | report spam | close Reply |
Huh ?

Mr. fartleberry... am I missing something ? [Quote: "Still no bookmarks sort ?" ]

Just click on the book icon on the upper left and just like in iTunes - you can organize / arrange / sort / list / move all your bookmarks till the cows come home. What "more" do you need ? What kinda "sort" is missing ?

DahlBryn
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03/18, 11:07am | report spam | close Reply |
s*** Search

Love the 'Command-F' function for searches of text within any webpage, and it highlights them. Very s***.

leamanc
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03/18, 11:13am | report spam | close Reply |
Adblocking

Just downloaded it. Doesn't seem much faster than 3.0.x, which was pretty fast in itself.

I would probably switch back to Safari from Firefox if I could get adblocking working. None of the apps I have ever tried have worked.

I recently installed SafariBlock. It's in ~/Library/InputManagers but doesn't seem to do anything. There is supposed to be a panel added to Safari's prefs but it doesn't show up. Also, there's supposed to be an "adblock" contextual menu item. It's not there either.

Anyone have experience with this and any ideas? Actually none of the Safari input managers I have ever tried have worked.

bobolicious
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03/18, 11:14am | report spam | close Reply |
1/3 ram?

...seems far more memory efficient too...

Grrr
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03/18, 11:36am | report spam | close Reply |
hehe

No, its not any faster. Period. Restarting re-snappifies things somewhat, so i expect this is what people are reporting.

Haroscarfel
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03/18, 11:41am | report spam | close Reply |
faster for me

3.0 would always hang on the last couple items to load in a site(per status bar) for me its loading everything in record time. im very happy with it.

hayesk
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03/18, 11:58am | report spam | close Reply |
Re: adblocking

So, you want to block ads on free web sites, because you would rather pay for the content yourself?

Although if you just use it to block popups and the stupid ad on MacNN that says "Hellooooooooo?" when you mouse over it, I'd understand.

testudo
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03/18, 12:49pm | report spam | close Reply |
re: adblocking

I recently installed SafariBlock. It's in ~/Library/InputManagers but doesn't seem to do anything.

If you're running Leopard (you don't say), you can't put it there. InputManagers are only allowed in /Library/InputManagers. AND they need special permissions, IIRC.

And, haysek, people block ads on websites because they are the most annoying things on the web site. Most people probably are lazy and let the software block all ads. Personally, I block ads (and those damn annoying 'intellitext' links on MacNN) from sites that feel they must bombard me, while I leave them on other sites (MacInTouch, for example, is a way to do ads without driving people into epileptic fits).

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03/18, 01:45pm | report spam | close Reply |
re: s*** search

Safari 3.0 had that feature, but they've improved the highlight in 3.1. Before, the highlighted words would block much of what was around them. For example, if the page read "The quick brown fox", and you searched for "brown", the 'k' in "quick" and 'f' in "fox" would be covered by the hightlight. Now, it's more subtle.

MichiganRich
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03/18, 02:57pm | report spam | close Reply |
uhm...

The s*** search has been there for a while now, it's not a 3.1 thing.

Monde
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so far so good

All is well with all my sites. Loads quickly. A definite improvement.

Mr. Fartleberry
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03/18, 04:48pm | report spam | close Reply |
sort

Alphabetic sort within folders. I do sort until the cows come home. That's the problem. I have other things to do.

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03/18, 05:34pm | report spam | close Reply |
f***-le-berry

That's the problem. I have other things to do.

like posting the same comment on a website every time someone even mentions the word safari, and then reloading that site every 10 minutes to see if anyone has commented on your comment...

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Apple launches Safari 3.1

updated 09:35 am EDT, Tue March 18, 2008

Apple launches Safari 3.1

Noticeably faster

Yikes!! SLOW!!!!

OK, restarted again

surfing safari update?

spate?

Yawn

re: spate

definitely faster

Huh ?

s*** Search

Adblocking

1/3 ram?

hehe

faster for me

Re: adblocking

re: adblocking

re: s*** search

uhm...

so far so good

sort

f***-le-berry

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Noticeably faster

Yikes!! SLOW!!!!

OK, restarted again

surfing safari update?

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definitely faster

Huh ?

s*** Search

Adblocking

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hehe

faster for me

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uhm...

so far so good

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