safari-iconApple today released the fifth developer beta of Safari 10 for OS X Yosemite and OS X El Capitan users, allowing those who don’t yet want to install the macOS Sierra operating system to test out the upcoming Safari update.

The fifth Safari 10 beta for Yosemite and El Capitan can be downloaded from the Apple Developer Center or over-the-air through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store for those who installed the first four Safari 10 betas.

Safari 10 for Yosemite and El Capitan does not include all of the features that are available or will be available in macOS Sierra, like Apple Pay on the web and Picture in Picture support, but the Safari 10 functions listed below are available.

  • Safari Extensions
  • New Bookmarks sidebar, including double-click to focus in on a folder
  • Redesigned Bookmarks and History views
  • Site-specific zoom
  • Improved AutoFill from your Contacts card
  • Reader improvements
  • HTML5 and legacy Plug-ins
  • Allow reopening of recently closed tabs
  • Back closing spawned tabs
  • Improved ranking of Frequently Visited Sites
  • Web Inspector Timelines Tab
  • Debugging using Web Inspector

With OS X El Capitan, Safari 10 also supports the development of Safari App Extensions, allowing developers to start creating extensions that will eventually be sold through the Mac App Store. Also unique to El Capitan (and Sierra) is Spotlight suggestions for Top Hits.

Safari 10 will be released this fall alongside macOS Sierra.

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Top Rated Comments

Carl%R Avatar
111 months ago
No WebRTC support yet?
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Altis Avatar
111 months ago
A dark mode that forces backgrounds to be dark and text to be light would be great.

I have an extension for Chrome called ChangeColors that does this and it makes such a huge difference on the strain to your eyes.
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AdonisSMU Avatar
111 months ago
I don't understand why MR didn't mention ES6 and shadow dom a significant update to Safari.
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gnurf Avatar
111 months ago
I've gotten used to per-site zoom in Sierra. It's very nice, because some sites insist on stupidly small fonts.

Extensions are becoming less of a plus since they made extension development part of the unified paid development program. The ones most important to me are no longer being updated, because the devs don't want to pay $99/year to create free extensions.
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