Safari for iOS is undoubtedly the best browser on any mobile platform. Chrome Beta for Android comes close but it’s available to only a small minority of users and it’s still in beta. Due to variations in hardware and software capabilities, it might not be possible for Chrome Beta for Android to give the same experience that Mobile Safari provides. We could be wrong though given that Google knows very well how to make a good browser.
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Safari 5.1.4 Released With Performance Improvements
Apple has pushed out a new version of Safari today, version 5.1.4 which brings a number of fixes and improvements to performance, stability and security. Safari is Apple’s web browser and ships across various platforms which include OS X, Windows and iOS. The iOS version is rarely updated, mostly in major iOS releases while the updates for desktop operating systems are released far often.
Download Safari 5.1 With Tons Of new Features [OS X & Windows]
Apple has just released Safari 5.1 with lots of new features and is now available for download for both Mac OS X and Windows users. New features include Multi-touch gestures, Reading List and full screen browsing. There are some new Privacy and security features that have also been introduced. Complete official release of new features in Safari 5.1 is given below:
[How To] Enable Facebook Video Chat in Mac OSX Lion
Facebook’s big announcement this week was the unveiling of their new integrated video chat feature using Skype as the back end. This new feature allows users to directly call their Facebook friends, right inside of the web. Unfortunately, this new feature is not available to Lion users and the latest beta of Safari. Clicking on the icon will give you an error that your browser or OS is not supported.
Apple Pushes Security Update 2011-002 & Safari 5.0.5, Recommended Download!
Just after today’s iOS 4.3.2 update for iPhone 4 GSM, iPod touch 3G/4G and iPad 1/2 and iOS 4.2.7 for the Verizon CDMA iPhone 4, Apple has rolled out another update for Mac OS X. Its a security update 2011-2012 which should fix the “embarassing 5 second Safari pwnage” demonstrated in pwn2own contest held earlier this year. With it an Safari 5.0.5 is also available for download. It is highly recommended to grab these on you Mac OS via software update option.
Safari Pwned in 5 Seconds Followed by Internet Explorer 8 at Pwn2Own Contest – Chrome Survives!
Well, well, well. Steve Jobs wouldn’t be sitting easy after reading this. Safari on Mac OS X fell to hackers at Pwn2Own contest in just 5 seconds! That’s incredibly scary by any means but the good news is, the exploits used to do this aren’t going to be released in the wild for wrong usage. A close second was Internet Explorer 8 ( who uses that? Get IE9! ), which fell to three different vulnerabilities and custom exploits.
GridTab For Safari Brings iPad Like Tabs In Grid Layout To iPhone & iPod Touch
This is actually a really cool tweak. In fact once you start using it, you’ll never go back to the native tab switching in mobile Safari for iPhone. Its called ‘GridTab For Safari’ and is available for jailbroken iPhone and iPod touch running iOS 4.0 or above. The tweak allows you to view your opened Safari tabs in a grid, much like the native tab viewing in Safari for iPad. This makes it a lot smoother to navigate through the opened tabs while browsing on your iPhone or iPod touch.
Safari 5.0.3 For Mac & 4.1.3 For Windows Now Available For Download!
Apple has just rolled out a critical update for its Safari web browser to version 5.0.3 for Mac OS X and version 4.1.3 for Windows. The update addresses a major issue of showing wrong “Top Hit” results in the Safari address bar upon typing (now its fixed and gives priority to bookmarks and history) along with several security enhancements, increased compatibility, speed optimizations and various bug fixes.
YouTube5 extension for Safari converts YouTube videos to HTML5 to avoid Flash and save CPU cycles
Apple is slowly removing flash from almost all of their devices. It first started with no support for flash in their iOS devices and now the new MacBook Air ships without flash (although it can be installed manually). But this makes almost no difference to Mac users as HTML5 is the future technology for vide and rich internet applications according to Apple and most websites are already adjusting according to that. Mac users would also have noticed that while using YouTube, their MacBooks get hotter as Flash consumes a lot more CPU cycles than most applications. But you can now install a new YouTube5 Safari extension which makes sure that YouTube videos will be e-wrapped as an HTML5 video stream.
Cicero lets you add any OpenSearch compatible Search Engine to Safari in iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch [Jailbroken Devices only]
A new tweak on Cydia called Cicero lets you customize your search engines in Safari. I had been waiting a long time for a tweak like this to add Bing to Safari before iOS 4. Cicero lets you add any search engine that complies with OpenSearch standards ( almost all major search engines and site specific search engines do this. for e.g. YouTube, Wikipedia etc ). This allows you to do site specific searches without loading up the website first. Blessing in disguise.
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