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  • Up close with iOS 5: Safari

    Posted October 13, 2011 - 2:14 pm

    The iOS version of Safari has always been one of the best--if not the best--of the mobile browsers on the market. And when the iPad version of Safari debuted in early 2010, it brought several desktop features, such as a Bookmarks bar, to Apple's mobile offering. But with iOS 5, Apple has added even more features inspired by the Mac version of Safari, and while the result still doesn't match the full-featured experience of a desktop Web browser, you no longer feel as though you're sacrificing quite as much when moving from your Mac to your iPhone or iPad.

  • Make page width smaller in full-screen Safari

    Posted August 2, 2011 - 12:48 pm

    Mac OS X Lion's abililty to use applications full-screen usually works great. However, there are some web pages that don't come across well while being displayed in Safari in full-screen mode (especially if you have a very large screen). Here's how to change the page width in full-screen Safari.

  • Safari 5.1 gestures and Mac OS X Lion

    Posted July 26, 2011 - 10:33 pm

    Safari 5.1 is the latest release of Apple's browser and it has been updated to work with Lion. Gestures are a big part of Safari 5.1's new feature set and they add a whole different dimension to browsing while using Mac OS X Lion.

  • Apple delays release of LGPL WebKit code

    Posted May 9, 2011 - 8:57 pm

    Updated: Source code for March 10 WebKit release (and releases since) wasn't released... but has been now.

  • 13 features that make each Web browser unique

    Posted May 2, 2011 - 5:08 am

    Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, IE -- innovative features set each browser apart

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    Browser wars, 2011

    Posted April 25, 2011 - 4:22 pm

    Which browser is best for security, speed, and compliance with web standards? To find out, we ran the new versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari through a battery of benchmark tests. Here's how they stack up.

  • Apple patches Pwn2Own, Comodo hack bugs

    Posted April 14, 2011 - 3:18 pm

    Apple today patched bugs in iOS and Safari used at last month's Pwn2Own hacking contest by three teams of researchers who collectively earned $45,000 for their work.

  • iOS 4.3 Web performance differences a security matter

    Posted March 21, 2011 - 10:52 am

    One of the lesser-known improvements in the iOS 4.3 update is a significant boost in the speed of Safari’s JavaScript performance, thanks to the incorporation of the Nitro engine used in the Mac OS X version of Apple’s Web browser.

  • Safari, IE hacked first at Pwn2Own

    Posted March 9, 2011 - 9:23 pm

    Apple's Safari and Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) both fell to the first hackers who tried their luck on the browsers at Wednesday's opening day of Pwn2Own.

  • Apple patches 62 bugs in massive Safari update

    Posted March 9, 2011 - 8:46 pm

    Apple today patched a record 62 vulnerabilities in Safari 5, updating the Mac and Windows browser to version 5.0.4.

  • How to manage Safari's Top Sites

    Posted February 28, 2011 - 12:25 pm

    One of Safari 5’s more useful features is Top Sites, which displays snapshots of the sites you visit most often on a showy, pseudo-three-dimensional wall worthy of The Architect. But what if you want to prevent some sites from appearing in Top Sites, add sites that you rarely visit but still enjoy, or place some sites in specific slots so they’re easy to find?

  • Internet Explorer is tops at resisting social malware, social life

    Posted December 16, 2010 - 6:02 pm

    A new test of how well browsers resist socially engineered malware shows IE far ahead of the rest of the crowd, possibly because of users' difficulty making social connections of any sort.

  • The 30 best Safari extensions -- so far

    Posted October 26, 2010 - 8:43 pm

    Following in the footsteps of Firefox and Chrome, Apple this summer began allowing developers to create extensions for its Safari 5 Web browser and more recently launched its Extensions Gallery. The idea is to allow users to customize Safari in ways that make Web surfing more efficient and fun.

  • Three Safari 5 secrets

    Posted June 22, 2010 - 6:44 am

    Since Apple released Safari 5, we've been getting a lot of tips for the new browser. Here are three of the best.

  • Apple's Safari 5 takes speed prize on Mac, Windows

    Posted June 16, 2010 - 1:56 pm

    Apple's new Safari 5 browser is the fastest browser on both Windows and Mac OS X, JavaScript benchmark tests show.

  • 5 reasons to upgrade to Apple's Safari 5

    Posted June 14, 2010 - 8:59 pm

    Although it wasn't mentioned during Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote address Monday at WWDC, Apple launched an updated version of its Safari Web browser for Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.2 or higher, as well as Windows XP SP2 or higher, Vista, and Windows 7. With the new release, Apple patched security holes, boosted performance, and introduced a handful of features that collectively have the potential to put Safari on par with Chrome and Firefox in terms of core features and performance.

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    Safari 5 in depth: Has it sped past Chrome?

    Posted June 14, 2010 - 8:34 pm

    The just-released Safari 5 ups the ante in the browser wars, with two major improvements: a performance boost to rival speed king Chrome, the highly useful Safari Reader, which makes it much easier to read multi-page Web articles.

  • Security experts, hackers question AT&T's iPad data safety claim

    Posted June 14, 2010 - 12:00 pm

    AT&T assured iPad customers that last week's data leak was limited. But two independent security experts say the data could have been used in rare, technically difficult attacks. The original hackers charge that Apple and AT&T are still overlooking a flaw in the iPad's Safari browser.

  • Benchmarks: Safari 5 shows JavaScript boost

    Posted June 10, 2010 - 10:59 am

    When Safari 5 was released Monday, Apple claimed that the "world's fastest" Web browser is now faster. Macworld Lab ran a performance test on the new Safari, and our results confirm that Safari 5 provides a boost over its predecessor--at least when it comes to the browser's JavaScript engine.

  • Safari 5's Reader feature and the future of web content

    Posted June 9, 2010 - 6:47 am

    Apple's new browser effectively eliminates ads from web content. That's not good news for anyone, in the long run.

  • Firefox aims to make IE, Safari browsing more secure

    Posted May 12, 2010 - 8:48 am

    Mozilla has expanded a service that checks if a browser's plugins are current to now scan Internet Explorer, Safari Opera and Chrome in addition to its own Firefox.

  • Researcher reveals Safari zero-day bug

    Posted May 10, 2010 - 3:47 pm

    Apple's Safari browser contains a critical, unpatched bug that attackers can use to infect Windows PCs with malicious code, researchers at US-CERT and other security firms said today.

  • Bugs & Fixes: Security Fixes for All Major Browsers

    Posted April 28, 2010 - 7:37 pm

    Whatever you use to surf the Web needs a fix. Developers of all five major browsers--Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera--recently released important security patches.

  • Apple, Mozilla chase Google with browser stability moves

    Posted April 13, 2010 - 3:58 pm

    Apple and Mozilla have taken a page from Google to beef up the stability of their respective browsers, Safari and Firefox.

  • And the browser losers are ...

    Posted March 25, 2010 - 5:21 pm

    Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox. The one major Web browser left standing? Google Chrome.
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