Scan all the latest news, information and articles from thousands of websites in one simple-to-read, searchable article list delivered right to you. The magic of Safari RSS means you stay on top of your favorite interests without feeling like you’re ever missing out.

Browse on Safari

Safari puts everything you need to browse, search, view RSS feeds and manage your bookmarks in a clean, easy-to-use navigation bar:

 

Click the plus sign to add a bookmark and a naming sheet appears to let you edit the bookmark name and file it away in just the right library folder.

Click the built-in RSS icon and Safari automatically displays any available RSS feed for the current site.

Search the Web via the built-in Google field right next to the web address.

Return to the point you last typed a URL, entered a Google search or selected a bookmark with SnapBack.

Click the open book to view the Bookmarks Library and edit bookmark names and addresses just like renaming icons on your desktop.

Switch between multiple web pages in a single window by creating Tabs that elegantly resize themselves based on the number open.

RSS Ready

Many major news organizations, community websites and personal weblogs offer headlines and article summaries in the form of news feeds using a technology called RSS. Safari RSS lets you take these news feeds and view them together in a simple, ad-free list, so you can quickly find all the articles that interest you from across the Web. Safari is compatible with all the RSS feeds on the Internet because of its standards-based support for RSS 0.9, RSS 1, RSS 2 and Atom.

When Safari encounters a RSS feed, it displays every headline and article summary right in the browser window. To read the complete article, click on the headline or summary to retrieve the web page. Safari has a slider control for customizing the displayed length of each article summary and controls for sorting and filtering displayed articles by Date, Title and Source.

Get the Scoop

With Safari, you know right away if you’ve landed on a website that offers an RSS feed, thanks to a handy RSS icon. Click it and Safari automatically displays the feed. Then bookmark the RSS feed so you can return to it later. Safari even tells you when your bookmarked feeds are updated with new articles, so you get the latest news without repeatedly refreshing sites. And if you enjoy scanning the news from all your favorite sites at once, Safari lets you aggregate feeds easily. Create a folder of your frequently viewed RSS feeds from a single window, then browse everything from technology sites to entertainment sites in one cleanly formatted page.

Personal Clipping Service

Using a different approach than a search engine, which searches millions of sites on the Internet, Safari zeroes in on only the articles that interest you. Enter a topic keyword into the RSS search field and Safari searches across the currently displayed RSS feeds for matching headlines, then displays the results on a single page. Simply bookmark your search to create a Personal Clipping Service and Safari RSS aggregates new articles that meet your criteria and lets you know when they arrive.

Get Caught Speeding

Even the most complex pages load at breakneck speed on Safari. In fact, Safari loads pages more quickly than any other Mac web browser, blazing past Internet Explorer, Netscape and Firefox with ease. Safari 2.0 on Tiger even loads pages 1.8 times faster than Safari 1.2 on Panther.

Save and Email Web Pages

Now you can view web pages long after they disappear from the Web, complete with images and links, using the new archive feature. Keep them to read later or email to friends and colleagues. Archiving is ideal for saving short-lived web pages such as articles and personal receipts. Links embedded inside the page will continue to work as long as their destination web pages still exist.

Surf Securely

Safari protects your personal information on shared or public Macs when surfing the Web. Go ahead and check your bank account and .Mac email at the library or shop for birthday presents on the family Mac. Using Safari’s new Private Browsing feature, no information about where you visit on the Web, personal information you enter or pages you visit are saved or cached. It’s as if you were never there.

Safari also uses strong 128-bit encryption when accessing secure sites such as your bank or an online store, so you can transmit account and payment information with confidence.

Kid-Proof the Internet

Start your kids’ Web exploration off on the right foot with Safari Parental Controls. Specify exactly which websites your children access by bookmarking only those sites on the Safari Bookmarks Bar. With Safari Parental Controls enabled, your kids browse only the sites on the Bookmarks Bar. New web addresses typed into the address field or non-approved sites linked from approved sites will not load on Safari. Instead, an error message appears, giving your child the option to request approval on blocked pages.

(1) Test system: iMac with 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5, 256MB RAM, GeForce FX 5200 with 64 MB VRAM. Performance tests completed by Apple in April 2005. HTML, Java and JavaScript benchmarks based on VeriTest’s iBench Version 5.0 using default settings. Browsers that failed to automatically complete all test iterations were tested one iteration at a time.