Reader is a pretty cool feature that formats the current page you’re reading into a reader friendly view thats, well, reader friendly.Apple has released the fourth update to Safari Technology Preview today with fixes in connecting to the 1Password extension and watching videos on Netflix. The update primarily focuses on general bug fixes including networking, media, JavaScript, CSS, web APIs, Web Inspector, rendering, and accessibility. Safari Technology Preview is available as a download through the Apple Developer Center and subsequent updates will be received through the Mac App Store. The other subtle difference on the address bar is a permanent Reader button. That I guess requires you to install OS X Mountain Lion to have it enabled. One thing that’s missing however is the Share button that’s would showcase the native Twitter integration in OS X Mountain Lion. Now it’s defaulted on the toolbar on the top left just by the address bar. Previously, the reading list is by default accessible from the icon (the one with the glasses) that’s available on the bookmarks bar. There are also other little differences that’s now defaulted in Safari 5.2. If you notice, it also immediately shows your the number of matches of the Find on Page feature!īut in all honesty, I would still use the actual find feature (command+f) as it’s much faster to do so. It also searches through your browsing history, bookmarks as well as a keyword search on the page you’re browsing. If you see from the screen grab on the left, you will see that the search isn’t just limited to your default search engine configured on Safari. But it’s a nice welcome for Safari to finally support this unified address and search bar to de-cluter the browser as well as making searching a lot easier. Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer had been able to do this for a while now. To be honest, this isn’t really new in a browser. But if you’re lazy… in short, it’s the best password management software there is for Mac and Windows which also syncs to the respective 1Password app for the iPhone and iPad.Īnyways, to cut a long story short, I checked with Agilebits, the developer of 1Password, and they ‘unofficially’ stated that they ‘have not yet found any issues with 1Password’ with Safari 5.2! Voila, and there I went immediately installing Safari 5.2. If you are not aware what 1Password is, just jump ahead to the iTunes page here and the description will fully explain what it does. One of it (actually the only one) is the 1Password plugin. One of my hesitations to install the preview release of Safari 5.2 is that if it would break the plugins that I absolutely need for my browsing needs. In fact, I’ve been running it now for a couple of weeks and it’s a pretty stable built! These were the same questions that I had before I decided to give Safari 5.2 a test run.įirstly, the browser didn’t feel like it was a ‘preview’ version at all. But, should you update it to Safari 5.2 since it is currently only a preview? Does it feel buggy? Would the extensions that you are currently using on Safari 5.1 still continue to work? So now that you know the only thing between you and Safari 5.2 is a Safari Developer Program login.
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