Apple Releases Safari 5 Web Browser

Apple has released Safari 5, the latest version of its webkit based browser with many new features. The new version of Safari includes Safari Reader, a RSS reader, allowing users to view multiple articles from a site via a scrollable environment, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4, and the ability to choose Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari’s search field. Available for both Mac® and Windows. 

Safari 5 includes improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies that allow web developers to create rich, dynamic websites. With Safari 5, developers can now create secure Safari Extensions to customize and enhance the browsing experience. HTML5 features have been implemented with Safari 5 including fullscreen playback and closed captioning, geolocation, sectioning elements, draggable attributes, form validation, Ruby, EventSource, AJAX History, and WebScoket.

Safari 5 JavaScript engine is powered by Nitro, which allows for a 30% faster performance gain over its predecessor. In comparison to other browsers, Apple states Nitro performs 3% faster than Chrome 5.0, and over twice as fast as Firefox 3.6. DNS prefetching has also been implemented, allowing for faster loading of previously visited sites when users return to them.

Apple has also created the free Safari Development Program, which allows developers to enhance Safari with extensions based on HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript code. An extension builder allows for development, installation, and packaging of extensions in an easy to use environment. Safari extensions are placed in sandbox shell, allowing for enhanced security and better stability.

Safari 5 is available for both Mac OS® X and Windows as a free download at http://www.apple.com/safari/download/. Safari 5 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 or Mac OS X Snow Leopard® 10.6.2 or later. Safari 5 for Windows requires Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7, a minimum 256MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor. Full system requirements and more information on Safari 5 can be found at www.apple.com/safari. The Safari Developer Program is free to join at developer.apple.com/programs/safari.
 
Direct Download Link for Apple Safari 5 Web Browser: 
Apple Safari 5 (31 MB) 
Apple Safari 5 (With Quick Time, 49.5 MB) (If this not work than goto Here)
 

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