{"id":38155,"date":"2023-01-13T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38155"},"modified":"2023-01-18T14:56:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T19:56:56","slug":"20-years-of-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/13\/20-years-of-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years of Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/01\/07\/safari-turns-20\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34304520\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/105mz5a\/safari_turns_20_today_fastest_web_browser_ever\/\">Reddit<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/01\/07\/safari-turns-20\/\"><p>Today marks the 20th anniversary of Apple&rsquo;s co-founder Steve Jobs introducing Safari on the Mac at the 2003 Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Apple advertised Safari as the &ldquo;fastest web browser ever created for the Mac&rdquo; at the time.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>A public beta of Safari was made available for OS X Jaguar in January 2003, with key features including the WebKit rendering engine for faster browsing speeds, Google search capabilities integrated directly into the toolbar, improved bookmark management, optional pop-up ad blocking, a simpler file download process, and more.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Safari was eventually overshadowed by Google&rsquo;s Chrome, which was released in 2008 and is now the world&rsquo;s most popular web browser across all PCs and Macs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/801831\/20-years-of-safari-visual-history\/\">D. Griffin Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/801831\/20-years-of-safari-visual-history\/\">\n<p>Over the past 20 years, Apple&rsquo;s Safari web browser grew from a speedy young upstart to a polished professional. [&#8230;] Take a trip down memory lane as we look at how Safari has evolved over the years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been a fan of Safari since <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/09\/more_safari\/\">the beginning<\/a>. It&rsquo;s still my default browser, it still feels like a Mac app, and I think Apple has done a better job of maintaining it than most of the other built-in apps. That said, I&rsquo;ve been a bit less happy with it in recent years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><p>Compatibility with the sites that I visit was not great in the beginning but rapidly improved. There was a 10&#x2013;15 year period where Safari pretty much worked with everything. The last several years, I&rsquo;ve continually run into sites that don&rsquo;t work in Safari. These tend to be ones that I can&rsquo;t really avoid, like banks, insurance, hotels, restaurants, and even MacUpdate.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Closing a tab often closes the whole window. Sometimes I can get my other tabs back using <strong>Reopen Last Closed Tab<\/strong>, but sometimes they are just gone. They can&rsquo;t always be recovered using <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/22\/safari-forgets-your-history\/\">the history<\/a>, either, as it&rsquo;s been incomplete for a long time.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Some pages freeze or never fully load until I quit and restart the app or disable JavaScript.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>I sometimes get multi-minute freezes when I try to print or save a page as PDF.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>The new password manager is overall good, but it&rsquo;s frustrating that it can&rsquo;t search by password and that it sometimes won&rsquo;t let me enter my own password when creating a login, locking in the one that it auto-generated.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Safari doesn&rsquo;t like to keep me logged into sites, even if I have <strong>Prevent cross-site tracking<\/strong> off.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@cocoadog\/109656741060620881\">Andy Lee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@cocoadog\/109656741060620881\"><p>I don&rsquo;t know if it&rsquo;s an iOS 16 thing, but Safari has been flaky for me lately, especially with YouTube, to the point where I sometimes have to kill it and restart it to get it to work right. I mean flaky like becoming unresponsive, or not showing the keyboard when I enter a text field.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiclasso.co\/insights\/triumph-of-safari\/\">Magic Lasso<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34377227\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.magiclasso.co\/insights\/triumph-of-safari\/\">\n<p>In the Interop 2022 stable category Safari also made significant progress, increasing its score from 48.9% in January 2022 to 96% today. This puts Safari ahead of its competitors and demonstrates the Safari team&rsquo;s commitment to addressing long-standing concerns about the browsers lack of standards conformance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/27\/ventura-issues\/\">Ventura Issues<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/13\/safari-16\/\">Safari 16<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/12\/review-of-orion-browser-for-mac\/\">Review of Orion Browser for Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/11\/chrome-faster-than-safari-in-speedometer-benchmark\/\">Chrome Faster Than Safari in Speedometer Benchmark<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/12\/the-time-to-fix-web-security-bugs\/\">The Time to Fix Web Security Bugs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/07\/the-danger-of-sideloading-chromium\/\">The Danger of Sideloading Chromium<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/22\/safari-forgets-your-history\/\">Safari Forgets Your History<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/18\/safari-15-changes-in-beta-6\/\">Safari 15 Changes in Beta 6<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/27\/safari-frustrations\/\">Safari Frustrations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/17\/safari-15\/\">Safari 15 Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/09\/more_safari\/\">More Safari<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol (Hacker News, Reddit): Today marks the 20th anniversary of Apple&rsquo;s co-founder Steve Jobs introducing Safari on the Mac at the 2003 Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Apple advertised Safari as the &ldquo;fastest web browser ever created for the Mac&rdquo; at the time.[&#8230;]A public beta of Safari was made available for OS X Jaguar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-01-13T21:01:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"d271a3ec-e3e2-4e83-8cdf-2fe27e3cf205","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-01-18T19:56:59Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0nGj7OPiToOM3y_ifjzyBQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2070,2165,131,295,31,2185,30,655,2223,103,328],"class_list":["post-38155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-anniversary","tag-apple-password-manager","tag-bug","tag-history","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-2-jaguar","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-safari","tag-webkit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38199,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38155\/revisions\/38199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}