Apple Releases Safari 9 for OS X Yosemite and Mavericks Users

Wednesday September 30, 2015 10:17 AM PDT by Juli Clover
safariiconAhead of the official launch of OS X El Capitan, Apple's newest operating system, Apple today released Safari 9.0 for OS X Yosemite users. According to Apple, today's update is recommended for all people running OS X Yosemite and includes improvements to privacy, compatibility, and security.

The update adds El Capitan-centric features including a new mute audio feature for Safari tabs and additional viewing options for Safari Reader. Pinned Sites, a major Safari addition in OS X El Capitan, is not included.
This update:

- Adds controls to mute audio in Safari tabs
- Adds additional viewing options for Safari Reader
- Improves website AutoFill compatibility
Many OS X Yosemite users will be upgrading to OS X El Capitan in the next few hours, following its official public release. It is not clear when Apple plans to debut the software, but the company has promised that it's coming on September 30.

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marvz
39 months ago

where's El Capitan?

Still at Yosemite.
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begemotik228
39 months ago
Enough with the "it's not clear" thing, please!
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viettanium
39 months ago
where's El Capitan?
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RobFog
39 months ago

[…]Apple today released Safari 9.0 for OS X Yosemite users[…]

Also offered to me as a Mavericks user.
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arnoz
39 months ago
The only thing I need is pinning sites, and it's not available wit this version of Safari on Yosemite :(

PS: and chill out on the El Cap comments... It'll come at some point.
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Jason83
39 months ago
If it's not snappier, so help me... :mad:
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HenryAZ
39 months ago
One thing I don't like, and one I do, now that I've used it.

Don't like the new status bar. There is no space at the bottom that is a status bar, it just appears superimposed on the bottom of your page, when there is something to show, so it is appearing and disappearing, and covering up part of the page content when it does. Very distracting and annoying.

Do like:
I have bookmarks (for this forum, for example), where I have the five or so forums I read regularly all bookmarked and in a separate folder in bookmarks. For a folder like that, there is always the option to "Open in New Tabs", and that will open all five forums at once, each in its own tab. It is how I like to browse a forum like this that I read regularly. In the old Safari, when you did that, it wiped out any existing tabs you may have had open. Bad. The new version keeps the already-open tabs, and adds the new ones to the tab bar. Good.
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AtheistP3ace
39 months ago
Great! I have updated to 9.0 safari before updating to el cap. All is right with the world.
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JosephAW
39 months ago

get a new computer.

Sound reasonable, let find out what a base system would cost.

Just finished shopping on the Apple Store. To purchase an equivalent Mac Pro system that matches what I have now with speed, memory, disk and display it would only cost me $6015.95!
All so I can run iOS 9? Unacceptable!
I do not want to buy a lesser system like a Mac mini 1.4 because I'm concerned they will do the same thing to me as my G5, Mac Pro, iMac where they say they are no longer releasing an operating system.
I need to seriously look at moving to Windows 10 on my existing 64 bit system.
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Nermal
39 months ago
The status bar seems to have gone walkabout. It's still turned on in the View menu but isn't showing up.

Edit: It seems that "status bar" may now be a new term for "popup in bottom left corner that only appears when you hover over a link". It's therefore inconsistent when compared with the status bar in, say, Finder.
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