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Apple's New Safari 5 Adds Extensions, Safari Reader and More Speed

by Amar Toor on June 8, 2010 at 10:05 AM

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Much of the attention at yesterday's WWDC 2010 keynote may have focused on the new iPhone 4, but Apple also quietly unveiled another less glamorous update yesterday: the new Safari 5. As many predicted, the latest version of the Web browser will feature Safari Reader, and, as Engadget reports, claims to run JavaScript 30-percent faster than Safari 4, twice as fast as Firefox 3.6 and 3-percent faster than Google Chrome 5.0. As with the iPhone 4, Safari 5 features Bing search engine integration as we;. According to the Apple press release issued yesterday, the revamped browser also includes something called Extensions (more or less equivalent to Firefox's Add-Ons), which will allow developers to build HTML5, CSS and JavaScript add-ons into the browser as they see fit.

The crown jewel of Safari 5, though, is its new Reader feature, which automatically detects articles within a given page, and excavates them for seamless, text-only (and ad-free) reading. Comparing it to "Instapaper on the fly," Engadget says the feature is "pretty gorgeous," although it isn't yet compatible with all websites. To give Safari 5 a spin for yourself, grab it here. [From: Engadget and MacRumors]

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