What’s new in Safari 6? Offline reading, Do Not Track and Smart Search

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4 points·ledlauzis··3 comments

Huh? A bulleted list of release notes with a pot shot at Safari and some mighty large leaps of faith.

"Since most Mac users use Google Chrome as their primary browsers (sic)..." -- Oh really? I'd be surprised by this. Do you have numbers to back it up? I'm guessing most Mac users just use the default browser.

"Safari for Mac is just like IE for Windows, it is only used to access the web for the first time to download Google Chrome." -- I don't even... no.

"While it is a bit better than IE it still sucks and needs to be replaced ASAP." -- News to me. I use Safari every day. I've considered chrome and do tend to use it for development, but Safari is my default. It certainly doesn't suck and doesn't need to be replaced at all.

I agree, I use safari every day across three macs. Never seen a need to move to chrome which I do have installed. Safari just has better integration in to the mac eco system and is very capable.

Comparing Safari to IE shows the authors bias IMHO.

They also dropped the Windows port.

This seems like a bad move to me, as it makes it more difficult/expensive/impossible for 80+% of developers to test pages on the default Mac browser, which means there will be less testing. Luckily Chrome currently serves as a decent proxy for Safari, but if they diverge this could become a pain point for OS X users.

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