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So, I still have not updated my iPhone to v26 because I hate everything I’ve seen about the “Liquid Glass” and Apple still had a v18 update last time around.
But I expect I will be forced to upgrade since Safari with Lockdown Mode on in v18 chokes on almost every page, redrawing a couple of times before giving up. I also see this in a couple of apps which are probably just thin wrappers around Safari WebViews. Turning off lockdown mode for the site ends the problem.

⚡HUMAN SAFARI: Russian Drones Hunt Volunteers & Strike "CHILDREN" Signs!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/30/human-safari-russian-drones-hunt.html

Phia, founded by Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe to develop an AI search engine accessed via an extension for Chrome and Safari, raised $30M at a $180M valuation (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Still not working from my laptop due to stupid caching (particularly Safari) but can confirm mstdn.chrisalemany.ca is alive! yay.
#selfhost #footiMac

Google Chrome: Schnellerer Wechsel von Safari auf dem iPhone
Auf Mac und PC kennt man das Feature: Mit einem Klick werden Browser-Infos übernommen. Google setzt das nun auch auf dem iPhone um.
https://www.

Just me trying to reconcile Baseline listing `<track>` as “widely available” and all browsers shown with green checks when down the page there’s an entire row of red Xes for one of the core accessibility features of `<track>`.
#HTML #accessibility

@… safari is out on safari

Safari is falling behind by the day.
Its usability is borderline ridiculous.
Mouse over a tab, it shows a preview of the tab, you click, and Safari decided to surprise you show **some** tab.

Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now.
Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com.
They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker.
To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone…

@… Point taken, my comment about it being the stylesheet wasn't necessarily meant to be technically accurate.
Here's a fun comparison, desktop Safari vs. the Simulator. *Something* is different about Safari running on iOS it would seem.

🤔 "Add text-autospace to status content" https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/37694
From Webkit blog (

Add text-autospace to status content by ahxxm · Pull Request #37694 · mastodon/mastodon
for CJK/Latin mixed-script readability. (or more precisely, non-ideographic letters adjacent to ideographic letters?) A demo from Webkit blog: https://codepen.io/jensimmons/pen/NPWaXxY caniuse

For those of you tolerating Liquid Glass and the quite horrific Safari redesign on mobile/tablet: Kagi’s Orion browser actually seems to be an awesome full replacement. No complaints so far. Easy access to tab management, no weirdly hidden buttons or menus you need to tap multiple times to see fully. As a bonus, it has built-in filter support as well as several great Firefox and Chrome plug-ins. And Kagi’s search is optional. In fact you have more search options than in Safari.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how-to-use-keywords-with-bookmarks
https://old.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/pmu979/possible_to_have_keyword_shortcuts_like_firefox/
https://safarikeywordsearch.aurlien.net

I wonder if there’s a Safari extension that removes known AI slop/spam websites, does anyone know?

Been trying for 6 days now to complete an upload onto FilmHub. Can't figure out if the ISP/router/safari/content blocker is causing the upload to interrupt every 20min or so. Have to manually restart it every time, and it'll be a miracle if the file isn't corrupted in the end.

#Brooks der Hersteller von einigen der schönsten Fahrradtaschen und -sätteln haben zur Open Factory und einem #CustomBike-Event eingeladen. Der #Radavist hat die Fotos
BRITISH STEEL: BIKES OF THE BRO…

Bikes of the Brooks England Open Factory: British Steel
As part of their Open Factory event, Brooks England invited a selection of builders and small British bike brands. Some of the longest-running brands in cycling had the opportunity to show alongside relative newcomers. Buckle up for another ride with our European correspondent, Petor Georgallou, and enjoy the show... Moulton NS Safari The first bike that caught my eye is among the most unique available: a Moulton NS Safari, a space-framed, stainless steel, full-suspension, small-wheeled road bi…

2026 Web Engines Hackfest
https://webengineshackfest.org/

I handles many of important extensions, I’m liking it so far. But no safari extensions unfortunately, so missing my favourite blocker.
It is wicked fast though. https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115634295732705020

Wikimedia data puts iOS 26 adoption at ~50% in January vs. iOS 18's 72% in 2025 as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter showed 15% after missing Safari changes (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/ios_26_adoption_rate_is_not_bizar…

The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.

Apple bastelt an KI-Browser – Projektstatus unklar
Apples macOS-, iPadOS- und iOS-Browser Safari hat keine nennenswerten KI-Funktionen. Intern soll es laut einem Bericht aber ein Projekt geben.
https://www.

I'm torn as to whether this is a good part of the job, but today I once again ran into a limitation of Safari and thus also Chrome on the iPhone. After quite some time, I discovered the cause. Tomorrow I'll work on the workaround. #webdev #safari

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
The Breeders:
🎵 Safari
#TheBreeders
https://thebreeders.bandcamp.com/album/safari
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JgQE933VpnlCI0gmM6oTO

Human safari in KHERSON: it's still hard to realize! – Zabrisky #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/human-safari-in-kherson-its.html

@gruber I purposefully have automatic downloads and updates turned off because OS 26 seems half-baked and I wanted to wait. Last weekend, after pestering me for a week even though I kept pressing “cancel update” my iPhone and iPad ignored all that and installed OS 26 overnight. I know I’m in the minority, but how do we evaluate the adoption rate with this in mind?

The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.

And now it’s stuck in my head. 😬 https://mastodon.online/@50years_music/115617578958453925

Well, Apple, making Safari 26.0.1 run like a dog’s breakfast on macOS Sequoia while also *not* providing a download for Safari 18.6¹ is definitely a choice.²
No way I’m breaking nearly half the apps I rely on daily by upgrading to Tahoe just to fix Safari so I guess I’ll be making Chromium my default (I use Orion a lot, especially since I pay for Kagi, but it has its issues like 1Password not working, etc.) And don’t get me started on Firefox³.
So, Apple, how about a little less …

Morning Glory
(Somewhere in southern Bavaria, whilst on a beautiful, but freezing early morning photo safari two years ago...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@samvarma/115650649436754400
WTF how does it make a difference if a Safari tab is on the laptop display versus an external display? Moved the uploading tab to the laptop display, and now it's not being interrupted...?
Ca…

I have replaced the default browser on my iPhone. I sincerely hope this is one metric that Apple tracks and they’ll start realizing that Safari is not truly the better browser.

Another interesting command line tool on #macOS explained by the wonderful Eclectic Light Company https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/24/convert-text-betwe…

Convert text between file formats, including webarchives
Convert between text, HTML, RTF, RTFD, Word .doc and .docx, WordML, ODT and Safari Web Archives using this command tool.

Kherson Human Safari: Journalist ZARINA ZABARSKI documents the HORRORS of WAR: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/kherson-human-safari-journalist-zarina.html

It has been 19 years since the launch of Firebug v1.0.
It’s hard to overstate how critical this Firefox extension was. Before 2007, tooling was scarce. Firebug introduced the DOM inspector, live CSS editing, and the network monitor—features that laid the groundwork for the advanced performance tooling we rely on today in Chrome, Safari, and Edge.
Happy Anniversary, Firebug. 🎂

Actually kinda like the new styling on the Safari tab & tool bars. *ducks for cover*

JavaScript’s `using` variable declaration is *almost* ready for primetime.
✅ Now available in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Node 24, Deno
❌ Not yet in Safari 🥹
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/using

You know that Firefox feature where bookmarks could contain a %s in the url somewhere and then the name of the bookmark could be used as a prefix in the address bar to quickly query some website? What's that feature called? Does it exist in Safari?
#askfedi

“I would bet that Google makes more ad revenue from the average iPhone user (who, even if they don’t install a single one of Google’s native iOS apps, probably uses Google Search in Safari) than from the average Android user.” — Daring Fireball
Interesting speculation. I wonder if there’s anyway to find out.
(https://

Is it just me? Perhaps because I often have only one or two tabs open - I'm a compulsive tab closer. But the new UI in macOS Safari for handling tabs wastes space, is hard to use, and confuses me constantly about where the URL box is and such. I am unsure why it passed muster at product review time.
Perhaps it works well for others. But even if you always have more than one tab open, it still wastes vertical space.

The most frequent argument in support of Safari is its energy efficiency.
Are there any actual benchmarks?

iOS-26-Nutzung: Statcounter räumt fehlerhafte Zahlen ein
Apple hat aus Datenschutzgründen am Safari-User-Agent geschraubt. In die Falle tappte der Webanalysedienst Statcounter – und zählte die iOS-26-Nutzung falsch.

Hmm, WebGUI von mastodon.social kaputt?
Sowohl Safari als auch Chrome auf dem Mac wollen nicht?

Ok, I’m procrastinating downloading a bunch of vids with yt-dlp and at this point I’m already reaching the tabs limit on this Safari profile
What’d be the best way of downloading a bunch of videos with yt-dlp while still keeping a good control of what failed and what succeeded? (this is basically impossible from its output if you feed it a bunch of links in a single go)
I was wanting a webui I could selfhost and it’d show progress and status for each video it’s downloading (and let me pass custom options to the yt-dlp command, such as filename), but should I just make a script with a for loop for each URL instead?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keyword-search/id1558453954 seems to work well in Safari Version 18.6 (20621.3.11.11.3)

@… The web interface currently doesn’t load for me in Safari on macOS 26.2. The API seems to work as I can use the Ivory app on my phone just fine.

A deep dive into Apple's AI strategy reset, as it prepares to announce a Gemini-powered personalized Siri next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletter…

Exposomics is an important "new" science. As it matures, it will require medical AI and database analyses. Genetics CANNOT be separated from the environment. Genetic expression is inherently environmental.
Here's a short article explaining the Exposome. (Though gods help you if you can't suppress ads and pop-ups. It works fine in Safari's Reader Mode, e.g.)

Cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Monkey Safari:
🎵 Shelter (Radio-Edit)
#NowPlaying #MonkeySafari
https://monkeysafari.bandcamp.com/album/shelter
https://open.spotify.com/track/02r8lxuLJUuJ5syYnWyFRI

I am unsurprised at the breakdown so far:
https://social.vivaldi.net/@HalleAndert/115548550635430577
Granted, the plethora of Chromia are splitting the vote, but even added together it’s not close.
Also, this is not scientific and may not reference reality. …

So what's a good alternative to Firefox (I'm using it when I'm not on my Mac). I don't want their new "AI Window" stuff and I don't want to support it.
It has to work on Windows and an iOS version as well, and can sync passwords between those.
Please only suggest things you personally use and like.
I'm ruling out Chrome (spyware) and Brave (homophobic owner).
(Wish Apple would still make Safari for Windows.)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Leslie Butler:
🎵 Black Impression/Safari In Dub
#LeslieButler

@… IS THIS HOW I LEARN ABOUT :nth-child() `of <selector>`!!!!
SAFARI 9!!!! I’m going to go have a little crash out now

Is there a known solution to send a link from any non-Safari #macOS browser to Safari's Reading List? This is possible on the iPhone as part of the Share actions.
I'm mostly interested into how to do this from Chrome and Firefox based browsers.
\(^-^)/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
The Breeders:
🎵 Safari
#TheBreeders
https://thebreeders.bandcamp.com/album/safari
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JgQE933VpnlCI0gmM6oTO

@… this is on mobile safari on iOS 18.7.2, if that matters. (I am/was trying to do some back-of-the-napkin math while away from a larger computer.)

Apple iMac product page viewed by Safari 13 (2020). Apple website does not target customers of older Macs wanting to buy a new one.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Broken Bells:
🎵 Holding On For Life
#BrokenBells
https://neosafari.bandcamp.com/track/holding-on-for-life-neo-safari-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/757PJjXAgywxrYkdhMkEV9

OKAY OPEN SAFARI TABS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN IOS BACKUPS WHAT THE FUCK I’M FUCKED