Safari 5 Released

pknoll writes "Apple has released the fifth version of the Safari web browser, which adds several new features. Reader mode detects multiple-page articles and displays them in their entirety at the click of a button, and most importantly, there is now an official extension API."

Same as Readable App

[magister159]

The content extraction feature sounds a lot like the Readable Bookmarlet [appspot.com] that I've been running across browsers for the last year.

Re:Haha

[Ngarrang]

Instead of manually entering your scripts, menu items, stylesheets, and commands in a complicated text file

Comedy gold :)

Exactly how dumb does Apple think its users are that a text file is now considered 'complicated'?

Re:OK, so extensions...

[armanox]

I've found that just blocking sites in my hosts file works much better.

Okay, so Cached vs Cached

[neoshroom]

Possibly, but here is an even better comparison with two cached pages. When you click "back" in Safari it loads the page layout and text first and then loads the images. Chrome loads the entire page at once, which is a lot less visually jarring. You can also notice this in the scrollbar which in Safari will keep changing sizes and in Chrome will stay the same same size upon hitting "back."

Additionally, activity monitor consistently shows Safari takes up more virtual memory and percentage usage of the CPU than Safari does. Don't get me wrong, they are both great, speedy browsers and I'm not exactly anti-Apple, being that I'm on a Macintosh, but Chrome 5 really is fast.

Re:Refuse to test it

[Anonymous Coward]

>And yes, I know they had an Adblock extension, but it still renders ads in the background. I want to stop the ads from being downloaded or rendered at all.

Still no volume control

[line-bundle]

I still want a volume control to shut the web up. But still want to be able to listen to my music.

Re:Crashes a lot ?

[cbackas]

I skimmed the entire page with Safari 5 (cause the math content made no sense to me!) up and down several times, and reloaded a bunch of times without any issues. Obviously I haven't had it for long, but I've observed no stability problems at all. Is it possible that page is using a special font for the math symbols that may be corrupt on your system? (Wild guess) Did/do you have any Safari "enhancers" installed? Those probably aren't compatible between releases.

how about long-term performance?

[_|()|\|]

Although Safari benchmarks well, it degrades severely over time. Memory usage climbs, even after closing tabs, and the beach ball becomes a constant companion. Firefox is a little better, but I've had the best luck with Chrome. I'll try Safari 5, but I'm not optimistic that it will be any better than previous versions.

Re:Still no volume control

[macroexp]

Yeah, you can use JackOSX - but that doesn't give you per-app volume out of the box. You'd have to have another tool also communicating with jack to do the amplification/attenuation. (I use Ardour but that's a little heady for a typical user - and no, I don't just use it as a fancy volume control)

The real deal-killer is that audio in Flash videos doesn't work properly through Jack. (On Snow Leopard at least) It's a known problem with no fix in sight. Oddly enough, HTML5 videos work flawlessly...

First official ad-blocking and auto-paging browser

[Mandrel]

Yes, this seems to be the first time ad-blocking and auto-paging have been built into the standard release of a browser.

Perhaps it's an Apple ploy to push publishers to iPad and iPhone apps, where their content cannot be altered.