Apple has launched the Safari Technology Preview, a new version of its web browser meant to give developers an early look at new web technologies.
Safari’s keychain makes it very convenient for you to save passwords and credit card information. Information is stored in iCloud so you can use it across all of your Apple devices. We show you how to view the data on your iPhone or iPad.
Skip the tapping and typing with this brilliant iPhone and iPad tip for quickly copying URLs, searching terms, and visiting websites.
There appears to be an issue plaguing select iPhone and Mac owners, which results in Safari crashing when attempting to search for entered text using the address bar. Reports have been published by those rocking iOS and OS X hardware who have been able to reproduce the crash. Luckily, there appears to be an easy temporary fix if you happen to be among those affected.
There's a web page out there called Crash Safari that uses JavaScript to put your browser into a loop, crash it, and potentially crash your device as well. Apple is aware of the page—and more importantly, the code—and is looking into a fix.
If you use Tweetbot on the Mac and Safari is your default web browser, clicking on a Twitter link—which the company insists on shortening to t.co—can result in errors, hangs, and general misery. Luckily, there's a workaround that can help make the process seamless again.
Mozilla will launch Focus by Firefox, an ad blocker made specificlaally for Apple's Safari web browser running on iOS 9, later today. The company said it will allow Safari users to block web content trackers that are on Disconnect’s open source blocklist.
While many websites in this day and age have embraced responsive design, which rescales a full webpage to properly fit on smaller screens, there are still a pesky number who insist on serving "slimmed down" mobile versions to iPhone and iPad users. Thankfully, you can disregard the website owner's wishes and get whatever version you prefer with a quick Safari trick.
There have been numerous reports, including our own anecdotal ones, about how much better Safari is than Chrome when it comes to battery life on MacBooks. Here's another.
Coming with iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan is the new Apple system font, San Francisco (technically the SF branch). If you make web apps or use web views and want to make sure they match, there's some good news coming your way.