Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included with the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Safari is also the native browser for iOS. A version of Safari for the Microsoft Windows operating system was first released on June 11, 2007, and supported Windows XP Service Pack 2/3, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, but it is no longer promoted or updated. Safari 5.1.7 is the last version available for Windows PC.
According to Net Applications, Safari accounted for 62.17 percent of mobile web browsing traffic and 5.43 percent of desktop traffic in October 2011, giving a combined market share of 8.72 percent.
Features:-
Safari offers numerous features, including:
- Ability to save webpage clips for viewing on the Apple Dashboard (Mac OS X only)
- A resizable web-search box in the toolbar which allows choice among Google, Yahoo! or Bing only
- Automatic filling in of web forms ("autofill")
- Bookmark integration with Address Book
- Bookmark management
- Built-in password management via Keychain (Mac OS X only)
- History and bookmark search
- Expandable text boxes
- ICC color profile (version 4) support
- Inline PDF viewing (Mac OS X only)
- iPhoto integration (Mac OS X only)
- Mail integration (Mac OS X only)
- Pop-up ad blocking
- Private browsing
- Quartz-style font smoothing
- Reader mode, for viewing an uncluttered version of Web articles
- Spell checking
- Subscribing to and reading web feeds
- Support for CSS 3 web fonts
- Support for CSS animation
- Support for HTML5
- Support for Transport Layer Security protocol (version unknown)
- Tabbed browsing
- Text search
- Web Inspector, a DOM Inspector-like utility that lets users and developers browse the Document Object Model of a web page.
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