Safari 3.1 out in the wild
Posted by Aayush Arya | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:58 AM PT
As a Tuesday goodie, Apple just released an update to Safari for both Mac OS X and Windows. In a rare detailed change-log from Apple, they give us the scoop on what has changed since Safari 3.0.4 (beware of spoilers though).
Here are some appetizers:
- Better JavaScript performance, site compatibility and application stability
- Support for CSS 3 web fonts, transforms and transitions
- Several developer features such as access to Web Inspector and Network Timeline, support for custom user access string and improved snipper editor
- Double clicking on the Tab Bar opens new tab (goodbye, Twicetab—you’ll be missed)
- Opens Download and Activity window in current Space
- Shows Caps Lock icon in password fields
- Improved security
You can choose between firing up Software Update and downloading it from Apple’s website. It’s compatible with Leopard as well as Tiger, provided that you are running v10.4.11.
Incidentally, this update boosts Safari's Acid3 score to 75/100. It was 39/100 before the update. (http://acid3.acidtests.org/)
What the! Just cause I'm currently on a Windows PC there is no reason to punish me. Cause as long as I'm on this thing, I can't download the mac version (unlike iTunes).
Hmmm, still slower than Firefox on my Macbook Pro. *shrug*
While the speed bump & double-tap for tabs is a nice feature, it appears that this update disables the very good Schubert-iT plug-ins PDF-Browser and Word-Browser. Not sure if these will be updated to keep track with 3.1....but something to be aware of if you regularly benefit from them.
I am impressed with the speed of the latest Webkit (http://nightly.webkit.org/) nightlies...almost as fast as Camino.
Unfortunately, this update made many of my apps unable to launch; for example, iChat, iTunes, Safari itself, Quicksilver, Garageband, and others.