Safari Technology Preview 248 Released

JSR_FDED•3 minutes ago

After being so disappointed by Tahoe and the whole Alan Dye era, it’s great to see Apple getting their mojo back. Golden Gate is shaping up to be a great release.

paddingtone•about 1 hour ago

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...

alberth•about 2 hours ago

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...

bombcar•about 1 hour ago

They finally used some of those trillions to buy one (1) Claude pro subscription.

Affric•39 minutes ago

Since they nixed uBlock Origin Safari has not been a serious web browser to me. No amount of technology can make up for it.

paddingtone•37 minutes ago

I've been using uBlock Origin Lite on Safari with no issues.

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

jvican•6 minutes ago

I use Adguard/wipr to great success. Why's uBlock Origin better? Also, wipr now has filtr, which provides URL filtering at the macOS level, so it's as efficient as it gets.

argee•about 2 hours ago

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.

lapcat•about 1 hour ago

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.

SigmundA•12 minutes ago

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

bearjaws•24 minutes ago

I cannot use a browser that is owned by a company who's financial model is dependent upon browsers being nerfed.

Apple and Google have far too many incentives to wall garden browsers, Apple due to the app store, Google due to advertising.

Independent browsers are the only safe path forward.

dbbk•11 minutes ago

What did they nerf

lapcat•about 1 hour ago

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.

nikanj•about 1 hour ago

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

lapcat•44 minutes ago

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.

Safari Technology Preview 248 Released

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