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Apple Safari for Mac

Apple's Web browser.

Apple Safari overview

Apple Safari is Apple's web browser that comes bundled with the most recent macOS. Safari is faster and more energy efficient than other browsers, so sites are more responsive and your notebook battery lasts longer between charges. Built-in privacy features are stronger than ever. It works with iCloud to let you browse seamlessly across all your devices. And it gives you great ways to find and share your favorites. Put it all together, and no other browser offers such a rich web experience.

Safari for Mac has a condensed and minimalistic interface that offers mac users faster, private browsing with fewer interruptions and extended battery life.

When you download Safari for Mac you will get enhanced protection against invasive malicious software and customizable private browsing options to protect your information.

While browsing privately in Safari, pages that you visit in private mode will not appear in your browsing history list.

The Safari browser uses fewer system resources and allows extended browsing times while iCloud allows you to sync all your web activity seamlessly across devices.

A vast library of extensions available to enhance usability and productivity in the workplace or at home.

How to Update Safari on a Mac?

• Open "System Preferences" and click on the "Software Update" icon.
• If you have an update available it will list the version of macOS that you will be updating too, and what is going to change.
• To start the update there will be an "Update" button.

Note: this is on macOS Catalina as older versions require that you use the "App Store" to update Safari.

Safari Features

• Intelligent Tracking Prevention - enhanced privacy protection
• Reader mode - read without ads and other distractions
• Safari App Extensions - to customize the browsing experience on macOS
• Web Inspector - create custom audits with the new audit tab for running tests against web content
• Use iCloud to sync seamlessly across all your devices
• Browse Desktop sites with Ipad or iPhone
• Enhanced support for the most popular productivity websites
• Dark mode support for websites
• Enhanced password protection
• Sign in With Apple account to Safari now supported
• New Changes sidebar in the Elements tab
• Added the Device Settings menu
• New Security tab in the resources view
• Safari Developer Tools
• Pay with Apple Pay
• Customizable RSS feeds

Compatibility

The default browser for Apple devices and there are no official versions of Safari for other devices. Apple no longer supports Mac OS 10.14 for Macbooks older than 2012.

Known Issues

• No support for WebSQL
• No support for Legacy Safari Extensions
• Can't update Safari on OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or earlier
• no support for windows
• Poor support for new web technologies and open source formats

What’s new in version 17.5

Resolved issues.

• Fixed the proximity calculation for implicit @scope. (124640124)
• Fixed the Grid track sizing algorithm logical height computation avoid unnecessary grid item updates. (124713418)
• Fixed any @scope limit making the element out of scope. (124956673)

Full list of changes available here

• Launch Safari
• Clear History
• Clear cache
• Remove extension
• Turn off plugins within Safari
• Delete plugins
• Your browser will be restored to its factory settings.
• Launch Safari and click on the menu
• Select the "Preferences" option.
• Go to the "General" tab.
• Select the default browser to use.
• Close Preferences.
• Quit Safari.

What users say about Apple Safari

Customer support : 1.0

Just letting people know that in the What do you like section I would have put nothing but apparently, I have to like at least one thing for this review......Who runs this show Tim C?

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Latest Mac OS X El Capitan updates, issues and fixes

Mac OS X 10.11  El Capitan is the next version of OS X, succeeding Yosemite. Apple previewed the new version of the Mac operating system alongside iOS 9 at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday 8 June. It then released a public beta of the new operating system, so a lot of people were able to try it out. However, despite the beta programme there were still issues with OS X El Capitan when it launched, many of which we address in this article.

El Capitan is available to download from the Mac App Store  – as are the updates to the operating system: OS X 10.11.3 offers numerous bug fixes over the previous versions.

If you’re in the mood for more El Cap goodness, here are our top tips for OS X El Capitan and How El Capitan compares to Yosemite.

OS X El Capitan updates: 10.11.4 Beta now available

Please note at the time of writing 10.11.4 is currently in Beta; therefore you might experience problems whilst using the potentially non-stable version.

On 11 January 2016 Apple released its preview release of 10.11.4 as a developer build and public beta. You can join the Beta Software Program  through Apple’s website , where you’ll then be able to download the latest 10.11.4 update through the Software Update section on the App Store. Read next: How to join Apple’s OS X El Capitan Beta Seed Program .

If you’re a developer you’ll be able to download the update through the dedicated download found on Apple’s site . Sign up to the developer program if you’re not already a member.

Unlike 10.11.3, the 10.11.4 beta adds a new feature over the previous build by giving you the ability to view and share Live Photos through Messages. This small but useful update will now allow you to view your Live Photos as you do on iMessage after capturing them on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Previously, Live Photos caused problems when being viewed or shared on a Mac, where at times audio and video would be lost.

(For those that aren’t familiar with Live Photos, it’s a new iPhone feature that, when enabled, captures a brief video clip just before and just after each still photo you take. As of February 2016, Live Photos can only be taken with the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus but can be viewed on any device that’s running iOS 9 or OS X El Capitan.)

Read next:   How to partition your Mac  |  How to update to OS X El Capitan  |  Dual-boot Yosemite and El Capitan on a Mac

What’s the difference between the Public vs Developer Preview of El Capitan?

The public beta is not the same as the beta being released though the developer program. It is likely that developers will receive more frequent updates including new features not in the public beta. 

Can I talk about the beta publicly?

There is a licence agreement all beta testers must agree to and it specifies that the El Capitan beta is “Apple confidential information”. If you accept Apple’s terms – and you must in order to partake in the beta programme – you agree not to discuss your use of the software with anyone who isn’t also in the programme.

So you can’t “blog, post screen shots, tweet, or publicly post information about the public beta software”.

However, you can discuss any information that Apple has publicly disclosed; the company says that information is no longer considered confidential. 

OS X El Capitan updates: 10.11.3 now available

Apple released its latest stable update on 19 January 2016, which is available to download as a standalone update (6.19GB download size), as an update from El Capitan 10.11.2 (662.38MB download size), as a Combo update from any El Capitan 10.11 version (1.47GB download size). You are also able to directly download from your Mac by opening System Preferences > App Store, and then selecting ‘Install OS X updates’.

The latest stable El Capitan 10.11.3 update  “improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac”. The update addresses the issue of some users previously being unable to wake their Mac computers from sleep, whilst being connected to certain 4K displays.

Enterprise users will also be able to retain their third-party .pkg file receipts, which will be stored and saved in /var/db/receipts when upgrading from OS X Yosemite.

Finally the update also includes a security update for the operating system and Safari 9.0.3. More information about the security updates can be found on Apple’s website .

The update is therefore centred on bug fixes rather than adding new features.

OS X El Capitan updates: 10.11.2 now available

OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 has now been updated to 10.11.3. See above.

There’s a new update to El Capitan available on the Mac App Store.

OS X 10.11.2 El Capitan includes improvements to Wi-Fi reliability, Handoff and Airdrop, solves an issue with Bluetooth devices disconnecting, and fixes an issue with the way Mail and Exchange interact, it also fixes an issue that prevented photos importing from an iPhone to a Mac, according to Apple’s release notes.

You will be able to update to the latest version of El Capitan, if your Mac isn’t set to do so automatically, by visiting the Mac App Store, locating El Capitan ( here ) and downloading and installing the update.

If you would prefer the Mac to update itself as and when required, open System Preferences > App Store, and select Install OS X updates under Automatically check for updates. You can also choose to Automatically download apps purchased on your other Macs that use your App Store log in.

OS X El Capitan updates: 10.11.1 now available

OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 has now been updated to 10.11.3.

Apple released the first update to OS X El Capitan on 21 October. The company says that OS X El Capitan Update 10.11.1 improves stability, compatibility and security.

Most crucially for users of Microsoft Office 2016 the update is said to improve compatibility – hopefully fixing the issues many users of that suite have been experiencing. Read more about the issues with Microsoft Office below.

The update also fixes issues in Mail, including one related to the outgoing server and an issue that prevented display of messages and mailboxes in that program. The issues with Mail are also addressed below.

There’s also a fix for an issue preventing some Audio Unit plug-ins from functioning, and improved VoiceOver reliability.

The update also fixes problems with the installation process, according to Apple, which is good news considering just how many people have had issues installing El Capitan, with people complaining that the Mac would get stuck on a grey screen during the installation.

And finally, more than 150 new emoji characters arrive in this update.

The update requires a restart and weighs in at 1.19GB.

OS X 10.11.1 had been with beta testers since 14 October.

OS X El Capitan issues, problems and fixes

As is the case with any operating system from Apple (last year was no different with the launch of Yosemite) it appears that there are a number of issues with the operating system. Below we address some of these issues, many of which are now said to be fixed by the above updates. Note: We’ve left the previous issues below in case you want to know if they been patched by Apple (or by another company).

Microsoft Office for Mac issues in El Capitan:  Patched in 10.11.1

If you have been having with your Outlook email since updating to OS X El Capitan you may not be alone. Some Mac users have found that there email is no longer syncing properly in Outlook, with the email crashing  when it tries to sync with the server, as a result users are unable to read messages unless they access their email via the web. The issues seem to be down to a bug in OS X El Capitan, and the issue is being experiences by users of Office for Mac 2011.

Luckily there is an update to Office 2011 now available from the Microsoft Download Centre. The update is v14.5.6 and apparently it addresses the Outlook issue.

However, there are also similar compatibility issues between Office for Mac 2016 and El Capitan. Microsoft has acknowledged these issues but has announced that it would not release a fix for the crashes, shifting the blame to Apple. 

An Office 2016 update released on 13 October did not include a fix for the issue; Microsoft claims that its customers will have to wait until Apple releases the next update to OS X El Capitan. Microsoft says that it is working with Apple to resolve the issue. That update arrived on 21 October, as mentioned above.

It appears that the issues with Microsoft Office 2016 were known of prior to the release of El Capitan at the end of September, with beta testers flagging the bug back in July. A thread on Microsoft’s support site stretches to more than 400 separate posts about the issue.

While the issue mostly concerns Outlook 2016, some users have experienced issues with the other Office apps, although in many cases it appears that an Outlook crash triggered the behaviour in the other apps.

Office for Mac users may also be disappointed to learn that the new Split View feature in El Capitan is not supported in the Office apps.

The update to El Capitan, OS X 10.11.1, includes a compatibility update that should address the Office 2016 issue.

Issues with Mail in El Capitan:  Patched in 10.11.1

It’s not only Outlook that suffered from the El Capitan introduction. Following installation of El Capitan some users experienced issues with the Apple Mail application including a bug that prevents messages and mailboxes appearing in the app.

It is possible that the reason for this issue is that El Capitan has changed the way OS X handles incoming emails and if your setting conflict with this the app may freeze when it connects to the server.

The update to El Capitan, OS X 10.11.1, includes a fix for this issue. If you still have problems you could try deleting the email account in preferences, and then creating a new account with the same information to see if that fixes the issue.

Google Docs no longer working in Safari in El Capitan:  Patched by Google in late 2015

We’ve discovered that our Google Docs can no longer be updated in Safari. Luckily it is possible to update them in other web browsers.

El Capitan breaks UK keyboard – no more £ key

A few days ago when we went to type a £ sign our keyboard typed the hash sign.

Immediately we were suspicious that the keyboard had changed from British English to American English, and when we checked in System Preferences > Keyboards we could see we were right.

It turns out that this is a bug in El Capitan although we hadn’t noticed the behaviour until 20 October and it only happened on our work Mac, not the Mac we use at home. Very strange.

To fix it we opened System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources and added the British Keyboard by clicking on the + sign.

Issues with iBooks in El Capitan

Following installation of El Capitan some people have found that their iBooks disappeared.

On opening iBooks a message would appear saying that iBooks cannot access your library.

Luckily there is a fix, if this has happened to you.

First try logging out of the iBooks store via the Store menu, and then log back in.

If that doesn’t work you could try Deauthorize and then Re-authorize iBooks on your Mac.

Now if you quit iBooks and then relaunch the app you should see you iBooks.

If the books are still no there, MacIssues recommends the following steps:

Quit iBooks > Hold down the Alt key and choose Library from the Go menu in the Finder > Open the Containers folder > Move the folder called com.apple.iBooksX to your Desktop > Move the folder called com.apple.BKAgentService to your Desktop > Open iBooks.

This should restore your book purchases, but if you have more issues the MacIssues article offers some further solutions.

Spotlight not indexing since El Capitan installation

Since updating to El Capitan some user have found that Spotlight is slow to respond. This is likely because Spotlight’s index has become corrupt during the installation and Apple’s search tool is reindexing the Mac.

If you want to speed up the indexing process you can deselect some of the things Spotlight might index. Go to System Preferences > Spotlight and choose Search Results. Here you can pick what Spotlight indexes.

El Capitan Battery Life issues

Some Mac laptop users are finding that battery life is suffering following the installation of El Capitan.

The battery life issues might be related to Spotlight reindexing, especially if you experience them soon after the installation.

Split View not working in El Capitan

Users of the Apple Support Forum have been complaining that El Capitan’s Split View is not working for them. Split View should allow a user to place two windows side-by-side in full screen mode.

If this is the case for you, the best fix is to go to System Preferences > Mission Control, Select ‘Display have separate space’ then reboot the Mac.

This should allow you to use Split View.

Slow Mac since El Capitan installation

A quick look on Apple’s support forums suggests that some users are finding that their Macs have slowed following the upgrade to El Capitan. Others are finding that apps are freezing and requiring them to force quit.

Printing problems in El Capitan

Some users are experiencing problems with printing since installing El Capitan, specifically landscape PDFs in Preview.

If this happens to you try going to System Preferences > Printers & Scanners and select Print. Then click on the printer you require and select Reset Printing System. Restart your Mac and turn the printer on and off again.

Issues with iTunes in El Capitan

Some people are posting on Apple’s forums about an issue with iTunes.

Posts suggest that the application is freezing on start-up and also that when it does work it can take “about 5 minutes” to find music folders.

WiFi connectivity issues in El Capitan:  Presumably Patched in 10.11.2

There are reports of people having WiFi issues in El Capitan.

OS X Daily suggests that the best fix is to delete the current WiFi preferences and create a new network location with DNS settings. They explain how to do this here .

OS X El Capitan feature summary

When Apple unveiled the software in July it confirmed that the new version of OS X would build on the strengths of Yosemite with “real refinements”. What that really means is that with this release Apple is focusing on performance and introducing only a handful of new features.

That’s not to say that there are no new features for Mac users to enjoy. There will be tweaks to the interface, new full-screen views, changes to the way you arrange all the windows on your desktop, a smarter Spotlight that can recognize natural language (and be moved around your desktop), and changes to the Mail, Safari, Notes and Photos apps. 

Our favourite new feature might just be the new way to find your cursor – just shake your mouse, or wiggle your finger on the trackpad, as we all do, but doing so will now make the curser grow in size momentarily. 

The performance improvements will mean that your Mac should feel faster, for example, opening your first email message will be two times faster, according to Apple, and PDFs will open four times faster.

That’s a very quick summary of what to expect from OS X El Capitan. In this article we will look more closely at all of the new features and also how you can get hold of the beta of El Capitan now. Here are our top features coming in OS X El Capitan

How to download El Capitan

We have a detailed article about how to install El Capitan here .

Alternatively, here’s a video demonstrating how to download and install El Capitan:

How to revert back to Yosemite from El Capitan

Luckily you can revert to an earlier version of OS X, though depending on how you back up, it’s not necessarily a painless process.

Start by making sure the data on your drive is backed up, then erase the drive and install Yosemite. When you first startup Yosemite you can use the OS X Migration Assistant to import your data from the backup.

If you install El Capitan and then think you made a mistake, here’s How to remove El Capitan and revert to Yosemite

OS X El Capitan system requirements

If your Mac was able to run Mavericks or Yosemite it will be able to run El Capitan. Those supported Macs include:

• iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
• MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
• MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
• Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
• MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
• Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
• Xserve (Early 2009)

All of those Macs feature a 64-bit CPU. You’ll also need about 6GB of space to be available for the install (so make sure you have more room than that or you may encounter issues).

Find out if your Mac is supported by clicking on the Apple logo in the top left of your screen, and selecting About this Mac > Overview. There you will see details of which Mac you have, and the year that model first appeared.

When Apple announced that El Capitan would have the same system requirements as Yosemite and Mavericks it confirmed that the next version of OS X would actually offer improved performance on the older hardware.

OS X El Capitan: why that name?

Because it’s building on OS X Yosemite, Apple felt that the new operating system should take the name of something within the Yosemite National Park, so OS X 10.11 will be known as El Capitan.

This follows the convention started with Snow Leopard. When Snow Leopard was introduced, it was a successor to Leopard, with security enhancements and system fixes (sound familiar?).

El Capitan is the name of a rock formation in the Yosemite National Park. Its sheer granite face is said to be one of the world’s most challenging for rock climbers. El Capitán means the captain, or the chief and was a Spanish translation of the name the Native Americans had given the rocks. Rock climbers and base jumpers refer to the rock as ‘El Cap’. We’ve already started referring to it colloquially as OS Cap Ten. The general consensus seems to be that it’s an awkward name, it generated a lot of banter on Twitter when it was unveiled with many variants of the name being shared for comedy value. Still it’s probably a better name for the next version of OS X than the other well known rock formation in Yosemite: Half Dome.

Interface and Desktop changes in OS X El Capitan

The name isn’t as important as the ways in which the interface is changing in OS X El Capitan, though. While the interface changes in El Capitan are minor compared to the complete overhaul of Yosemite, there are some very notable tweaks.

The first thing you will probably notice when you start up El Capitan is that when you wiggling your finger on the trackpad, or shaking your mouse, as most of us do when we want to locate the curser the curser will make your curser jump out at you so you can see it clearly. It’s one way that demonstrates that Apple is taking note of user behaviour when updating the operating system.

A significant change to the desktop view that Apple didn’t demonstrate during the keynote is the fact that a new option in System Preferences > General allows users to “Automatically hide and show the menu bar” in a similar vein to the way that users can choose to hide the Dock. This will be especially beneficial to users of smaller laptops such as the 11-inch MacBook Air or the 12-inch MacBook where every pixel counts.

During the WWDC keynote Apple’s vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federaghi showed off some new (and old) ways of managing your desktop. Currently when you have lots of things open you can use Mission Control (probably F3 on your Mac keyboard) to view a minimised version of all the documents and apps you have open along with any desktop Spaces (where users can gather particular programs). We’re pleased to see that the older Exposé behavior has returned to the Mission Control view – currently in Yosemite when you press F3 you see documents associated with apps all gathered together. We preferred the was Exposé used to show you minimized views off all the documents you had open so you could see them – rather than having the Word document you were looking for hidden behind another. The old behaviour will return in El Capitan: pressing F3 will show all your open apps making it easy to find the right document amidst the multiple documents you have open.

In addition, a new Spaces Bar will make it easier to create and manage multiple desktops – a + appears in the far right of the Spaces Bar, click on that to create a new desktop. This isn’t new behavior, you can add new Desktops in Spaces currently by clicking on the desktop image poking out of the top right corner of the Mac, but the new way is a lot more intuitive and the new design take up a lot less space.

There are also better options for working with multiple apps at the same time coming thanks to an improved full-screen mode. Clicking and dragging the green window-resize button will activate a new Split View that fills the screen with two apps at once. Users can choose the amount of space given to each app.

Another change not mentioned by Apple during the keynote is the new system font. As anticipated, the new San Francisco font found on the Apple Watch will be making its way to OS X (and also iOS 9). Currently, the system font in iOS 8 and Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite is Helvetica Neue.

If you are wondering what the San Francisco font looks like, the typeface is very similar to Helvetica Neue but the capital R is less rounded. At least that’s how we can tell the difference.

We’ve had heard that the new font may not look great on non-Retina screens, but we can confirm that it looks absolutely fine on the 12-inch MacBook screen. We haven’t viewed it on a 17in Retina iMac yet though.

OS X El Capitan: Spotlight

Spotlight search is gaining some longed for enhancements: namely the ability to move the new Spotlight window around the screen. In Yosemite the Spotlight window moved from the right hand side of the screen to take prominence in the centre, which is a problem if it is overlapping other applications you are working with. In OS X El Capitan the Spotlight window can now be dragged away from the screen center. You can also resize the results window. 

Our other wish for Spotlight hasn’t been fulfilled (yet) – the Spotlight window still disappears as soon as you click into another application. When using Spotlight to perform calculations or conversions it would be useful to be able to see the answer when you are trying to add it to the document you are working on.

Spotlight does gain a few other improvements, though. The most notable is probably the fact that Spotlight now lets us users write queries in natural language. Search for “documents I wrote last July” for example and Spotlight will find those documents. We think that this new intelligent Spotlight could hint that Siri is coming to the Mac since that is exactly the phraseology that a user would use to ask Siri the same question.

Spotlight also gains access to weather, stocks, sports, travel, and web video, so searches cover a wider variety of places.

Read: How to use Spotlight in Mac OS X El Capitan

OS X El Capitan: Photos

Apple rolled out Photos for the Mac earlier this summer. It’s a companion app to the iOS version so we weren’t expecting a big change in OS X 10.11, however, there are some new features and enhancements to the editing options, including support for third-party editing tools and third-party image-editing extensions, which you will be able to download from the Mac App Store.

When El Capitan arrives geotagging will return – the ability to tag a location is absent in Photos currently, but was in iPhoto so it is missed by many. Users will also be able to sort albums by date as well as title, and batch-change titles. Photos will be better at handling Faces too.

You will also have the ability to edit image data both individually and in batches. You’ll be able to add location information, batch-organise faces and batch-change title.

You’ll also find more flexibility for sorting albums – currently it’s date only, but you’ll be able to search by date, title and more.

Read more about Photos on the Mac

OS X El Capitan: Safari

Apple spent some time showing off two new features in Safari during the WWDC keynote, first, the ability to pin your favourite sites, and second, the ability to spot audio playing in tabs. These features are both known to Chrome users, so they aren’t exactly groundbreaking, but they are welcome.

Pinned sites are like tiny tabs. shortcuts to those sites you visit every day, like Facebook or YouTube. It struck us that this is yet another way to store our favourite sites – we already have Favourites and Top Sites which essentially do the same thing. Apple needs to decide which of those we should be using (I stick to Favourites since those come up when clicking the URL field).

Audio can be muted with a single click on its tab, which will be welcome to anyone who’s had multiple web pages open only to suddenly hear audio blasting out of their Mac. The new version of Safari will make it obvious which of those tabs is responsible and you will be able to hit a mute button on that tab. If you have more than one audio stream open Safari will make it easier to manage that too – just click on the speaker icon in the address bar to see a list of all the tabs playing audio. You’ll be able to shut down the audio on the tabs you wish from this view.

Not announced during the keynote, apparently the Safari Reader has four colour themes and eight typefaces, plus Safari’s top hit will show now when you search in Spotlight.

Read more about Safari on the Mac here

OS X El Capitan: Notes

Notes gets a much needed refresh on the Mac – that app has been far too limited to be useful other than as a way to share text between the Mac and iPhone quickly.

Now it can now handle media including photos and PDFs, URLs, and map locations as well as text. It will sync with other devices on the same account. And it will allow formatting of text.

There’s also a new formatting option that will turn a list into a checklist. You will also be able to share to Notes from other Mac apps.

Also in Notes is a new attachments browser which you can flick through to fins all the media, websites and other attachments you have added to Notes, similar to how you can look at all the images sent to you in Messages.

In iOS 9 Notes synced with iOS via an IMAP mailbox, rather than using the iCloud infrastructure to sync, like every other app on your Apple devices. In El Capital  Notes will get the full iCloud treatment.

Read: How to use Notes on the Mac

OS X El Capitan: Maps

The big news as far as Maps is concerned is that it is gaining transit directions, so if you aren’t walking or driving you will be able to find your route (presuming you live in London and are using the tube or bus – as yet trains are not included, and the data doesn’t go beyond the M25).

You may be thinking that the update to Maps is more likely to make a difference to you when you are out and about with your iPhone, but it appears that the OS X Maps version includes detailed maps of tube stations so that you can plan which exit to use.

Here’s what you need to know about using Maps on the Mac

OS X El Capitan: Mail

Apple’s Mail app will also gain some new features, many of which are reminiscent of the iPhone and iPad versions of the app. For example, new gestures include swiping to delete an email, just like in iOS. You can also swipe right to mark as unread.

There’s also an option to hide windows within the app without minimizing them – just click on the inbox to minimize the message you are composing to the bottom of the screen, a bar will indicate its presence. You can click on that bar to open the email again, but you may not need to: you can drag attachments into this minimized window to include them in the email you are composing.

Mail also gains better integration with calendar and contacts – this means that if you receive an email from someone who isn’t in your contacts Mail will offer to add them. If a friend invites you to meet up Mail will offer to create a calendar event for you.  

Other new features include tabbed windows to manage different email threads and natural-language search so you can search for “emails from Ashleigh including photographs” for example.

Data detectors mean Mail will offer to add events to your calendar and contacts to your address book. This isn’t a new feature, but it is improved in El Capitan Mail. It will adds banners in between the address field and the body of the message with data Mail’s detected and possible actions you might like to take.

IMAP support is also set to improve in Mail 9, thanks to a new engine that makes it twice as fast, according to Apple. Mail will change the say it downloads messages, prioritising the ones in the inbox you are viewing, so you shouldn’t have to wait for Mail to synchronize your messages before you can read any of them.

Here’s how to use Mail on the Mac

Apple Metal updates

There is one more significant change coming to OS X El Capitan, Metal, the graphics technology that was announced with iOS 8. Metal will bring improved game performance and improved performance in processor hungry apps.

Metal is a core graphics technology that gives apps near-direct access to the GPU. According to Apple, Metal will make graphics rendering 40 percent more efficient and games drawing performance is 10 times faster.  Apple also claims better battery life because of a 40% reduction in the CPU require to do graphics.

Metal combines OpenCL and OpenGL into a single API, bypassing the OpenGL framework. OpenGL runs slowly on OS X, dragging professional Mac apps down in comparison to their Windows counterparts, so bypassing OpenGL and making apps run natively on top of Metal is good news.

Adobe has already committed to adopting Metal for its OS X apps and demonstrated how Metal has improved After Effects and Illustrator. During the presentation, Federighi claimed that Adobe has confirmed it is able to deliver eight times improvement in rendering in After Effects. Illustrator also offers “flawless interaction”, apparently.

Autodesk and The Foundry have also committed to using Metal and it is thought that using Metal will also drastically speed up the likes of Autodesk’s Maya.

Metal for OS X is also great news if you’re a Mac gamer. According to Apple, thanks to Metal, users can expect up to ten times performance improvements in games.

Major game developers have already confirmed commitment to Metal, including Unity and Blizzard, as well as Feral and Aspyr who specialize in bringing Windows games to the Mac. Thanks to the update users should see accelerate graphics in high performance games – plus games will get direct access to underlying graphics hardware.

Apple says that Metal will pave the way for “new levels of realism and detail in games and other apps”. This means faster and more efficient rendering performance across the system.

Along with the performance enhancements coming in El Capitan we expect Metal to have a real impact on processor intensive work.

Read more:  Complete guide to Metal, and what it means for Mac gamers

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Troubleshooting, safari 11 for macos sierra & os x el capitan released.

Apple has released Safari 11 for macOS Sierra 10.12.6 and Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. The update to Safari includes various security patches, bug fixes, and includes a handful of new features for the Mac web browser.

Perhaps the most noteworthy feature of Safari 11 is that it stops media from automatically playing audio on most websites, thereby helping to prevent the user from having to mute tabs and tracking down which tab is playing sound when unexpected audio starts playing on sites like Facebook or many news websites.

Mac users can find the Safari 11 software update available in the Mac App Store Updates tab. You must be on the most recent version of Sierra or El Capitan to find the software update available, if you’re running a prior release of either Mac OS version the update does not appear to be available.

The release notes for Safari 11 include a focus on the following features and changes:

• Stop media with audio from automatically playing on most websites
• Adds the ability to configure Reader, content blockers, page zoom, and auto-play settings on a per-website basis, or for all websites
• Improves AutoFill accuracy from Contacts cards
• Includes updated media controls for HTML video and audio
• Enhances performance and efficiency

Safari 11 as a separate download is only available for Sierra and El Capitan. Safari 11 is included by default in macOS High Sierra 10.13, which is due for widespread public release for Mac users on September 25.

Separately, Apple has also released iOS 11 update for iPhone and iPad , along with tvOS 11 for Apple TV and watchOS 4 for Apple Watch .

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On the backend of my website there are buttons that have links that open (Chrome and Firefox) which will not open in Safari now. Any ideas?

Oddly I did not have a ‘check’ in the box for Font size, my MSN homepage would not load either.

For the heck of it, I checked the box, then un-checked it and my page loaded! LOL go figure!

So even if your box is not checked and you have the load problem, check the box (mine defaulted to 11) then just un-check it for a possible fix, it worked for me. Thanks to msr:)

Thanks msr. for posting what worked for you. It worked for me too.

Since upgrading to Safari 11.0 (on an early 2009 iMac), I am getting immediate crashes when keying information into security question boxes, for example, or EVEN entering my name in the box right above this text box. I am having to submit this on Chrome because of the problem. Maddening, and I don’t see it listed by anyone else.

I am having the same issue on a 2011 macbook pro.

Thank you msr that worked for me as soon as i unchecked it msn showed up great

I’m glad the solution for MSN worked for everyone. It was incredibly frustrating. After I found the fix and was squinting at the small font I discovered that the font size can be increased for your homepage by going to Safari -Settings for this website – zoom. The “never use font size smaller than xxx..” isn’t functioning properly so I’m not sure why it was left in Safari 11 to just cause problems.

I’m running Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 but there’s no sign of the new Safari update in my Updates tab of App Store.

I’m in SE Asia, perhaps it hasn’t been rolled over to us yet?

Though I rarely use Safari, I much prefer Firefox, I’d still like to have the new update if possible.

I solved the MSN issue, or rather someone else did and it worked for me.

“I got msn to load going to safari preferences, advanced pane ,accessibility I always had checked never use font sizes smaller than (old eyes) I unchecked the box guess what. Don’t Know if it helps but the only one for me that wasn’t loading.Worked fine before updating yesterday. Working fine again.”

Only problem now is I hope I can read it. I also had other issues such as all previous pages loading when Safari started up even though I had everything set to not do that.

No idea why this works but it does. I tried a lot of other things in preferences but nothing helped. This one did the trick. Thanks for posting!

Worked for me too. Thanks

Thanks for figuring this out! Dumbest fix in the world, but it works. The font size has remained the same. Bless the genius who stumbled on this.

Hats off to you! Spent the last 4 days looking for answer and yours solved problem of MSN not loading.

Many thanks!

Thank you it worked I am so happy you are genius Apple couldn’t fix and you did so easy

THANK YOU!! this worked for me too. unchecked the font size not smaller than box and MSN is good to go!

Thank you for sharing!!! Finally — MSN works! After trying so many things and wasting time troubleshooting…this fix works!!!! :)

worked for me too, thank you. still have a problem with slider-type tabs opening though…

I am running Safari 11.0 and all of a sudden I can’t get my msn.com homepage to open all the way. I get the header and an ad and the rest of the page is blank. What is the fix for this?

Same as other like to read MSN each day. part of the several news outlets I read for work.

MSN will not load since update to 11. What up?

I have the same problem

I updated Safari this morning & am running Sierra. Now Twitter is malfunctioning in that I can’t Like or Retweet, on Flickr I can’t choose other tabs, on forums like Affinity etc., I cannot “like” posts. There are similar glitches on other websites.

I waited a few days to upgrade Safari & hadn’t read any complaints elsewhere. I wish I hadn’t & could go back to the previous version. I’ll certainly not be updating iTunes for a while.

Okay SOLVED! When I updated to 11, a couple of the settings in Preferences were changed. Apparently it was a cookies thing.

After checking, unchecking tons of things Safari works again. Relieved.

what did you do I called Apple spent two hours on phone and they couldn’t fix it

Please help

I miss the RSS FEED. Bring it back please.

Hey Karsten, you can access our RSS feed here:

https://osxdaily.com/rss

Same problem as msr. MSN doesn’t load with Safari…… MSN fine with Firefox

Same problem MSN won’t completely load

Sorry for posting twice. The first one I posted last night didn’t appear until I posted the second one.

MSN homepage won’t load after upgrade to Safari 11. All I get is the search bar, the line with links for Outlook. Skype, etc., and one ad. The page is blank under that. Multiple attempts to fix it have not worked. The other two home pages I have set load fine. MSN is fine in Firefox.

I updated to Safari 11 with El Capitan. Now my MSN homepage won’t load nor can I type the address in a new tab and get it to load. All I get is the search bar, sign in, the next line with Outlook, Skype, etc. links, and an ad. There are no articles, weather, news, etc. I’ve tried every fix I could find and nothing works. It’s fine in Firefox. I wish I had waited until they fixed the bugs and i can’t revert back to the earlier version.

I have had the exact same problem. Love MSN for my homepage, but can only open the tool bar and the ads. As you said, fine on Firefox. Any way to revert back to the previous Safari?

Safari>>Preferences>>General>>Accessability…uncheck font size

Thank you! That worked :)

Safari>>Preferences>>ADVANCED>> UNCHECK “NEVER USE FONT SIZES SMALLER THAN…”

Safari>>Preferences>>ADVANCED>> UNCHECK “NEVER USE FONT SIZES SMALLER THAN…”

The above post is the fix for this problem of msn page not completely loading.

Awesome! Thanks.

So does Youtube. At least live streams do.

Live streams still play automatically for me.

The biggest change for me is that safari is constantly crashing now for no reason

CNN still plays automatically.

With this update, as well as the iOS 11, Apple got rid of Feeds, the built in RSS reader, found next to the Reading Pane. I loved this feature, something I used more than almost anything else on the iPhone & Mac!

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Update für Safari auf OS X El Capitan

ich benötige eien SafariUpdate für El Capitan V 10.11.6(15G2210)

Ich kann zwar keinen Update von ElCapitan aus High Sierra machen aber verstehe nicht

warum man Safari nicht updaten kann. Mein Mac ist eine 2007er klar der ist al, aber er läuft 1A

Es ist nur lästig dass man beim Safari-Browser bei nur bis zur Version 11.1.2 (11605.3.8.1)

Hat jemand zufällig eine Tip wie man den aktualisieren kann ?

Danke im Voraus

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Gepostet am 23. Juli 2019 21:46

Gepostet am 23. Juli 2019 23:15

Apple bietet nur eine begrenzte Anzahl von Anwendungsupdates für jede MacOS-Version an. Apple geht davon aus, dass Sie immer auf das neueste MacOS aktualisieren. Wenn Ihr Computer zu alt für ein Update ist, können Sie ihn entsorgen und einen neuen Computer kaufen.

Wenn Sie einen neueren Browser benötigen, empfehle ich, Safari nicht zu verwenden und stattdessen einen Browser wie Firefox zu verwenden. Mein Computer ist ein 2008er iMac mit Mavericks und ich verwende Waterfox, der auf dem neuesten Stand ist.

Naja, ich habe gerade jede Empfehlung dieses Posts von Apple verloren. ;-D

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24. Juli 2019 07:59 als Antwort auf Limnos

Danke, dann hat es doch mit dem neuesten Betriebssystem zu tun.

Eine Geschaftsstrategie von Apple ist auch OK. Eines steht fest,

Von der Hardware aus gesehen sind die Macs unschlagbar. Ich habe schon als Alternative

das neue MacBookPro, aber der iMac leistet trotzdem noch erstaunlich Dienste, auch in der Bildverarbeitung

mit PS und AI ;-)

Danke nochmals für die Antwort

24. Juli 2019 17:19 als Antwort auf MACHARRY2

Leider macht Apple viele seiner Software-Dienstprogramme zum Bestandteil des Betriebssystems. Beachten Sie, dass Sie iTunes auf einem Computer nicht mehr separat aktualisieren können, da es Teil des Betriebssystems ist. :-(

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OS X El Capitan (10.11.6) Fix SSL Certificate Errors (in 2022)

• Thread starter AphoticD
• Start date Mar 3, 2022
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macrumors 68020

• Mar 3, 2022

For anyone not using MacPorts: 1. Save the below script as `pems_add_to_macOS_System_Keychain.sh` 2. Terminal: `chmod 755 pems_add_to_macOS_System_Keychain.sh` to allow exec 3. Terminal: `sudo ./pems_add_to_macOS_System_Keychain.sh <path_to_pem>` Code: #!/usr/bin/env bash # Usage: pems_add_to_macOS_System_Keychain.sh trustedroot.pem # change to true to add the trusted certicates if true; then DIR="${TMPDIR}/trustedroot.$$" mkdir -p "${DIR}" trap "rm -rf '${DIR}'" EXIT ( cd "${DIR}" && split -p '^-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----$' - cert- ) < "$1" for c in "${DIR}"/cert-* ; do # use the pem if its expiration is more than a week away if openssl x509 -checkend 604800 -noout -in "${c}" 1> /dev/null 2>&1; then security -v add-trusted-cert -d -r trustRoot -k "/Library/Keychains/System.keychain" "${c}" fi done else cat <<'INSTRUCTIONS' Edit this script to add certificates from a trusted PEM file to the macOS System Keychain /Library/Keychains/System.keychain. Please make sure that you have a reliable backup of this file before running the script. INSTRUCTIONS fi rm -rf "${DIR}"  

macrumors newbie

• Sep 17, 2022

AphoticD said: For anyone not using MacPorts: 1. Save the below script as `pems_add_to_macOS_System_Keychain.sh` 2. Terminal: `chmod 755 pems_add_to_macOS_System_Keychain.sh` to allow exec 3. Terminal: `./pems_add_to_macOS_System_Keychain.sh <path_to_pem>` Code: #!/usr/bin/env bash # Usage: pems_add_to_macOS_System_Keychain.sh trustedroot.pem # change to true to add the trusted certicates if true; then DIR="${TMPDIR}/trustedroot.$$" mkdir -p "${DIR}" trap "rm -rf '${DIR}'" EXIT ( cd "${DIR}" && gcsplit -f cert- -b '%03x' -s -z - '/^-----END CERTIFICATE-----$/+1' '{*}' ) < "$1" for c in "${DIR}"/cert-* ; do # use the pem if its expiration is more than a week away if openssl x509 -checkend 604800 -noout -in "${c}" 1> /dev/null 2>&1; then security -v add-trusted-cert -d -r trustRoot -k "/Library/Keychains/System.keychain" "${c}" fi done else cat <<'INSTRUCTIONS' Edit this script to add certificates from a trusted PEM file to the macOS System Keychain /Library/Keychains/System.keychain. Please make sure that you have a reliable backup of this file before running the script. INSTRUCTIONS fi rm -rf "${DIR}" Click to expand...

macrumors 6502a

• Oct 9, 2022

What also worked for me (if you're inclined to trust selected parts of the internet) was installing isrgrootx1.pem from https://letsencrypt.org/certificates/ to the keychain. YMMV.  

• Feb 14, 2023

knutsen said: This did not work for me, because I don't have GNU coreutils installed. What _did_ work was to replace line 11 with this: *SNIP* Click to expand...

feelslikefriday

• Jun 29, 2023

AphoticD said: Perfect. Thanks for the contribution. I've updated the 2nd post with the edited shell script and sudo command. Working as expected on an El Cap system sans-macports. Click to expand...

jackerin said: What also worked for me (if you're inclined to trust selected parts of the internet) was installing isrgrootx1.pem from https://letsencrypt.org/certificates/ to the keychain. YMMV. Click to expand...

feelslikefriday said: When I tried to run that script I got -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' Any ideas as to why? Thanks. Click to expand...

JesterMasque

• Aug 14, 2023

AphoticD said: In El Capitan, I am seeing some apps not connecting to servers due to outdated / expired SSL Certificates. This has been seen in Safari and when attempting to update select apps - Sublime Text and VSCodium in my experience. This issue can be resolved by upgrading the System Roots certificates in Keychain Access.app , which will require access to a more recent Mac system (macOS Catalina 10.15.7 in my usage). 1. Terminal: Install the MacPorts script and bundle; `sudo port install apple-pki-bundle coreutils` 2. Terminal : Backup your existing System Keychain: `sudo cp /Library/Keychains/System.keychain /Library/Keychains/SystemElCap.keychain` 3. Terminal: Edit the pem install script to enable usage:`sudo vi /opt/local/share/apple-pki-bundle/bin/pems_add_to_macOS_System_Keychain.sh` (or pico, if preferred) 4. Terminal: At line 6, change: `if false; then` to `if true; then` and save. _____ ( Optional to install the pem keys included in this bundle) 5. Terminal: `sudo /opt/local/share/apple-pki-bundle/bin/pems_add_to_macOS_System_Keychain.sh /opt/local/share/apple-pki-bundle/apple-pki-bundle.pem` _____ Go to your more recent Mac: 6. On your more recent system, open Keychain Access.app (/Applications/Utilities/) 7. Click System Roots in left pane 8. Click into Certificates pane and Select All (Cmd-A) 9. Right-click and Export X Items (or File > Export...) 10. Save as `catalina-rootkeys.pem` (or similar) _____ Back on your El Capitan Mac: 11. Copy the saved pem key bundle to your El Capitan Mac. (copy into Home > Downloads or similar) 12. Terminal: `sudo /opt/local/share/apple-pki-bundle/bin/pems_add_to_macOS_System_Keychain.sh /Users/<username>/Downloads/catalina-rootkeys.pem` (replace `<username>` as needed) 13. Launch Keychain Access.app to verify installation OK. You should now see no more expired dates in the System Roots certificates list. If there are expired certs, you'll need to repeat again from a more recent OS (Big Sur or later). View attachment 1967653 Example of an error caused by the expired System Root certificates ( Sublime Text shown) on OS X El Capitan. View attachment 1967654 NSURLSession/NSURLConnection HTTP load failed (kCFStreamErrorDomainSSL, -9814) error exceptions logged in Console.app View attachment 1967657 Keychain Access.app on a more recent OS (macOS Catalina 10.15.7 shown) ​ Welcome back El Capitan Click to expand...

JesterMasque said: I just made this account to THANK YOU SO MUCH, because this was so easy, and just brought three of my old machines back to life! I run a recording studio, and have a lot of friends & clients with legacy equipment. I can't wait to bring this method to their attention. You guys are amazing, I really appreciate this kind of community & support <3 Click to expand...

• Sep 22, 2023

Thanks a lot! Works in 10.11, does not in 10.10.  

macrumors demi-god

• Sep 26, 2023

aonez said: Thanks a lot! Works in 10.11, does not in 10.10 . Click to expand...

sdfox7 said: Hi, are you sure you installed the updated certificate?... Click to expand...

aonez said: Thanks a lot for your reply sdfox7 and sorry, I should have been more descriptive. I've used the method to export and import the Keychain certificates from an updated version of macOS, did not used the downloaded pem file. Anyway the result appears to be the same, since updated versions of macOS have those valid certificates and they were properly imported, specially the "ISRG Root X1". Safari works, I can browse almost any https without issue but one address I needed ( https://www.kernel.org/ ) is not working. The same procedure worked on Mac OS X 10.11, and since it was enough for me I did not investigated more. Working on Mac OS X 10.11: View attachment 2281653 Same certificate, not working on Mac OS X 10.10. Trusted for all cases: View attachment 2281658 Click to expand...

To be fair I was trying to install some packages using brew, so really just used Safari to show you the issue.  

LinkStormer

• May 4, 2024

• May 5, 2024

LinkStormer said: I followed up your post and now App Store shows up this error: Click to expand...

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