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  • The one feature I would love to see is WebSerial support, now that Firefox has it too.
    by geerlingguy
  • Please add way to maximize the window. I rage quit when it goes fullscreen or just tall.
    by robrobrobrob
  • I hate this default behavior on the green button. I can count the number of times I've intentionally wanted a full-screen app on one hand.
    by pupppet
  • Fn-Control-F or hover over the green dot and pick the maximize option
    by norgie
  • I just use Rectangle. It's got all the core functionality. https://rectangleapp.com/
    by HaloZero
  • Try option-click on the green icon in the app window. It’s well hidden and unintuitive, but I think it does what you want.
    by woodson
  • Anybody know how to get Safari to “sanitize” on shutdown (delete cookies, cache, etc), except for whitelisted domains? After lots of fiddling I’ve realized this is probably the best privacy/convenience compromise for me, but Safari is the only browser I can’t even find a plugin to do it in.
    by kqp
  • s/Safari/Firefox/ and it is super simple to do this. I know that's not helpful to the question as asked, but possibly a better answer???

    As for Safari, closest I see is Preferences -> General -> Remove History Items. It has options ranging from After One Day, one week, one month, never. I don't see an option for at quit like FF has.

    by dylan604
  • This update fixed some web inspector bugs that I reported, but I can't use it because Safari Technology Preview inexplicably supports fewer macOS versions than Safari itself, i.e., no longer Sequoia.
    by lapcat
  • I don't know, given that Safari is bundled with the OS, targeting a newer macOS seems pretty explicable.
    by kstrauser
  • Wonder if they will ever fix upload progress using XHR, pretty annoying to not be able show accurate progress to the user when using larger chunk sizes:

    https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277286

    by SigmundA
  • Please, can we put the "Disable Javascript" menu back in the Developer menu
    by exabrial
  • Not sure why they removed this tbh
    by saagarjha
  • Been gone a while?

    https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/465150/make-shortc...

    by e12e
  • It’s impressive that pinch-zooming reddit.com in-out-in-out has reliably crashed ios safari for at least a few years already. One would assume Apple gets telemetry from iphone default browser crashes, and reddit seems important enough to warrant a fix
    by nikanj
  • This was fixed but then reverted. No further updates 3 months later. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305622

    Not sure how this comment is related to Safari Technology Preview, though, which is Mac-only.

    by lapcat
  • Does this help stable Safari in any way? I have a WebKit bug I’m tracking that’s fixed in STP but not in stable and it seems like there’s no telling whether it’ll ever land.
    by argee
  • It'll land eventually. They always do, though maybe months down the road. But of course Apple won't preannounce its plans, and unfortunately I'm not aware of a way to track WebKit commits in specific Safari releases.
    by lapcat
  • Since they nixed uBlock Origin Safari has not been a serious web browser to me. No amount of technology can make up for it.
    by Affric
  • wblock ftw https://github.com/0xCUB3/wBlock
    by onceandfuture
  • https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    by Noaidi
  • I've been using uBlock Origin Lite on Safari with no issues.

    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

    by paddingtone
  • Safari is the only real opposition to Google based browsers at the moment. Yes Firefox is a contender, but it has no brand traction among non-power users. Google has the brand, Safari has the defaults and energy efficiencies of the growing Apple laptop/desktop market. Although not open source, I trust it far more that a Google based browser as Apple - aside from PWAs competing with their App Store - has no real incentive to commodify, restrict or surveil the web like Google does.
    by CuriousRose
  • > aside from PWAs competing with their App Store

    Yeah. Aside. Let's just ignore that Apple intentionally prevents users from using the browsers most needed feature for the common user today killing it just like they killed Flash.

    by owebmaster
  • The team has been on a roll lately with massive fixes & improvements.

    Like last months announcement of over 500 fixes.

    https://webkit.org/blog/17967/news-from-wwdc26-webkit-in-saf...

    by alberth
  • They finally used some of those trillions to buy one (1) Claude pro subscription.
    by bombcar
  • The Safari beta is actually covering ~6 months of work in WebKit. So it isn't one release with 500 fixes. It is more of a consolidation.

    But yes WebKit has been getting tons of feature gap and bug fixed in the past 2-3 years. I think it accelerated during Safari 17, and Safari 18 has been the release that I find it good enough for most cases and finally with no rendering issues on all the site I browse.

    I have been trying to get the release note and update from Safari on HN frontpage but it never got much attention. Hopefully like you others will see how far Safari has come. And out of all the features coming from new macOS releases it has always been Safari that I am most looking forward to.

    At the same time I still think it has some way to go before catching up to Firefox and Chrome is many areas. But at least it is improving fast.

    by ksec
  • And they recently released the Safari MCP in STP as well.

    https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-ser...

    Looks like the Safari MCP is also now available in the most recent Golden Gate beta part of system Safari:

    https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-developer-t...

    by paddingtone