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Information About Safari Browser

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Safari for Mac

Microsoft Safari Browser

Safari is included with your Mac operating system. Sims install free.

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. Which can be downloaded free of charge. It also comes with a Mac computer. It is based on the WebKit engine, which is a fork of KDE's KHTML engine. Replaced the previous default web browser, Internet Explorer, with their Safari many years ago. But as the name is not the only information in a user agent string that is in that format, you can not discover the name of the browser, you can only check if the name you are looking for. But note that some browsers are lying: Chrome for example reports both as Chrome and Safari.

Updating Safari

To keep Safari up to date for the version of macOS you're using, install the latest macOS updates.

The most recent version of macOS includes the most recent version of Safari. For some earlier versions of macOS, Safari might also be available separately from the Updates tab of the App Store.

Reinstalling Safari

If you deleted Safari and don't have a Time Machine backup or other backup, reinstall macOS to put Safari back in your Applications folder. Reinstalling macOS doesn't remove data from your computer.

Before reinstalling, you might want to use Spotlight to search for Safari on your Mac. If you find it, but it's no longer in your Dock, just drag it to the Dock to add it back.

Information About Safari Browser

Safari for Windows

Apple no longer offers Safari updates for Windows. Safari 5.1.7 for Windows was the last version made for Windows, and it is now outdated.

Information About Safari Browser

Websites often store cookies and other data on your Mac. This data may include information that you have provided, such as your name, email address, and preferences. This data helps websites identify you when you return so the site can provide services for you and show information that might be of interest to you.

Safari Browser For Mac

By default, Safari accepts cookies and website data only from websites you visit. This helps prevent certain advertisers from storing data on your Mac. You can change options in Safari preferences so that Safari always accepts or always blocks cookies and other website data.

Important: Changing your cookie preferences or removing cookies and website data in Safari may change or remove them in other apps, including Dashboard.

Choose Safari > Preferences, click Privacy, then do any of the following:

  • Change which cookies and website data are accepted: Select a 'Cookies and website data' option:

    • Always block: Safari doesn't let any websites, third parties, or advertisers store cookies and other data on your Mac. This may prevent some websites from working properly.

    • Allow from current website only: Safari accepts cookies and website data only from the website you're currently visiting. Websites often have embedded content from other sources. Safari does not allow these third parties to store or access cookies or other data.

    • Allow from websites I visit: Safari accepts cookies and website data only from websites you visit. Safari uses your existing cookies to determine whether you have visited a website before. Selecting this option helps prevent websites that have embedded content in other websites you browse from storing cookies and data on your Mac.

    • Always allow: Safari lets all websites, third parties, and advertisers store cookies and other data on your Mac.

  • Remove stored cookies and data: Click Remove All Website Data, or click Details, select one or more websites, then click Remove.

    Removing the data may reduce tracking, but may also log you out of websites or change website behavior.

  • See which websites store cookies or data: Click Details.

  • Ask websites not to track you: Some websites keep track of your browsing activities when they serve you content, which enables them to tailor what they present to you. You can have Safari ask sites and their third party content providers (including advertisers) not to track you.

    With this option turned on, each time Safari fetches content from a website, Safari adds a request not to track you, but it's up to the website to honor this request.

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