#Safari technology preview tabs install#
#Safari technology preview tabs update#
#Safari technology preview tabs download#

Today’s new version is available to all Mac users running at least macOS Big Sur, and it has a build number of 126.Īpple’s release notes for this Safari Technology Preview: This preview build brings some of the upcoming macOS Monterey Safari features to macOS Big Sur and the macOS Monterey developer beta. Since 2016, Safari Technology Preview has been a way for Apple to test new builds of Safari with a smaller group before releasing them to the general public.

#Safari technology preview tabs update#

Today, Apple released a new update for Safari Technology Preview to anyone interested in testing the build before it is released this fall.

#Safari technology preview tabs download#

Users can download the update now from Apple’s developer website.It includes many macOS Monterey features like the streamlined tab bar and live text on the web.The new preview browser is available on macOS Big Sur and newer.

#Safari technology preview tabs install#

Whatever happened with separate operating systems and UIs for different modes of working? macOS essentially turns into iPadOS with Windows and a real file system, instead of being an environment optimized for mouse and yet one can’t install it on a iPad Pro 12” with MagicKeyboard, which in essence is the better MacBook Air than the MacBook Air.

What is alarming is that Apple let’s i(Pad)OS drive all features.

But Apple neglects to reflect the different work modes, and limits macOS by designing around the limitations of i(Pad)OS shopping for vacuum cleaners on a mac you’d not necessarily have a tab for each vacuum cleaner you research but a window for each of them, so you can compare them side by side, a possibility that under i(Pad)OS is impossible/severely limited, which is one of many reasons iPadOS isn’t a very productive environment to work in, unless you do very specialized, one-track-minded work. Similarly “tab groups”: great feature for i(Pad)OS, but for macOS it would need to be “tab AND window groups”, because e.g. So unless you essentially disable the toolbar by removing all buttons, you can’t properly work with the unified tab bar under macOS. It was a half-baked decision to bring it over to macOS, because in macOS there’s also the toolbar.

Haha, the unified tab bar was clearly designed for i(Pad)OS, where it works reasonably well. If someone at Apple is being extra stubborn on something the change will stay until the next major version of i/mac/iPadOS. Getting used to it being in the way is like getting used to having a thorn in your finger, why should people get used to a design that is a regression?Either way it has been widely panned but they're still continuing with it, so not sure Apple is listening to tech pundits at all.Īpple has always made big changes in the early developer betas and depending on the pushback they get, they usually tone them down a bit but not always. iOS Safari's new address bar at the bottom is better than it was in previous betas for example but is still in the way of content way too much. I'm not saying Apple shouldn't listen to outside opinions at all, but what's the right balance?Ĭhange for the sake of change isn't always good. Think of all the decisions and designs Apple has made that were initially panned by tech pundits, even by those that were loyal to Apple. Getting used to a new way of doing things always takes time, but tech pundits have a perverse incentive to complain loudly and quicker than the other guy. I'm starting to worry that Apple is listening to the tech pundits too much.