{"id":33775,"date":"2021-09-29T16:59:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=33775"},"modified":"2021-11-12T14:39:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T19:39:55","slug":"safari-15-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/29\/safari-15-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Safari 15 for Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple has released an update for Safari in Big Sur and Catalina, bringing it to version 15.0. This brings some of the new features coming in Monterey, including tab groups, redesigned tabs, a compact tab bar option, and automatic switching from HTTP connections to HTTPS where they’re available. I’ve been using tab groups for a while now, and am very impressed by them. If you like to have a lot of tabs, they’re your last hope to get better organised.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

The basic features are working fine for me except that iCloud is no longer syncing tabs to my other devices. Safari’s history now syncs to my iPad but not to my iPhone. Bookmarks and Reading List sync to all devices. [Update (2021-09-30): I’m now having problems with Reading List, too. It stopped syncing new items from iPhone to Mac; then I reset it on both devices and it synced the new items but didn’t delete the items from the phone after I deleted them on the Mac.]<\/p>\n\n

Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Safari 15 introduces a new look for Safari with rounded, more defined tabs and support for transparency, a compact tab bar option that can be toggled on or off, and Tab Groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a> (tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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On my iPad — and on my Mac, where I have been running beta versions of Safari 15 for weeks — I still think this redesign is a mess. It is unnecessarily cramped, it is visually unappealing, and there are usability problems even if you enable the separate tab bar to mimic previous versions. The best updates to Safari 15 on iPad and Mac will be those that make it look and work more like Safari 14.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Jesse Squires<\/a>:<\/p>\n

the safari 15 tab design is so bad i might switch browsers just because of this<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A company famous for its design went with… this<\/p>\n

It looks like I hovered over it or clicked down, then Cmd-Tabbed to a different app, locking it in a hover\/active state.<\/p>\n

My web browser now always looks like a UI-rendering bug.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

I still get confused because in regular macOS tab views the active tab is lighter than the others, and the active window also has a lighter title bar, but in Safari the active tab is darker<\/em>. (Prior to Big Sur, the active window and active tab were darker with the standard controls, except in Safari where the active tab was lighter.)<\/p>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a> (post<\/a>, tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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My strong advice to MacOS Big Sur users, if it’s not too late for you already, is NOT to upgrade to Safari 15.<\/p>\n

The new tabs are terrible. I’ve tried them, given them a fair shot, but they’re ugly at best, and I find them genuinely confusing. I feel lost.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Colin Cornaby<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I feel like Safari’s new tab bar layout would be more successful with a traditional Mac look, and without the Big Sur flat design. So many of the odd issues could be fixed by adding depth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Honestly the worst. The new design definitely impacts my workflow and makes Safari tabs more annoying to deal with. I don’t understand why Apple made this change because it’s in no way better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Joe Fabisevich<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Why did the Safari team think this was a good design choice? I can barely read anything in my tab bar or see any of my extensions because some random website (CNET) chose to make their background some obnoxious red. I love colorful design but this is horribly inaccessible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Thomas Tempelmann<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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My favorites bar now looks as if it’s part of the web site content.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Jordan Borth<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It looks like Safari is drawing custom window controls? These look so gross… Finder included for comparison of the standard appearance<\/p>\n

And the inactive window state… why? 🤢<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Butterfly effect in action: They had to do custom window controls in Safari to account for the new toolbar tinting 👀<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

And the controls look funny even if you turn off tab bar coloring.<\/p>\n\n

Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Also, Safari 15 also removed the hidden preference, previously in the “Debug” menu, to disable the tab hover previews.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Roustem Karimov<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Safari 15 has a ton of bug fixes though, especially when it comes to browser extensions. We’ve waited for this update many months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n