Safari 11.0.1 update recommendations?

[m.paris]

I am currently running Safari 10.1.2 with macOS 10.12.6 on a 21.5 inch mid 2011 iMac (12GB). I checked for Safari updates recently and saw that Safari 11.0.1 is available. Is there any reason to update or to not update? I have multiple, current backups so if things go wrong I can revert. TIA

[Winston]

Apple added a couple of nice features to Safari 11. The best is an option to block auto-play of embedded videos, which I've struggled to block with other methods. There is a whole "Websites" tab in Preferences which allows you customize several features (like autoplay) either globally, or by website.

I have found a few web sites which don't work perfectly, but I think most of these have been fixed with the latest update.

I'm running Safari 11.0.1 on Mac OS 10.11.6, and it's perfectly stable. I see no reason not to upgrade.


Good luck.

- Winston

[modelamac]

I agree with Winston.

[m.paris]

Thanks for the input. I think I will go ahead with the update. Some of the new capabilities sound good to me.

[Article Accelerator]

I wouldn't take the chance. I mean, you never know…

[WHiiP]

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I wouldn't take the chance. I mean, you never know…

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:peace:

I'm using Safari Technology Preview Release 44 (Safari 11.1, WebKit 12605.1.13.2)

[Winston]

OK, that's it. I'm going back to my PowerBook. TenFourFox all the way!

[Winston]

Update: Since I wrote about Safari 11.0.1 it seems like Safari has slowed down some, or I'm noticing it more. I get brief beachballs of about a second going into Safari (clicking from another application into an open Safari window). And when my email program sends a link it does seem to take a bit longer to get into Safari 11 than with Safari 10.

Once pages start to load they load fast, but it seems like Safari 11 is putting more overhead on the system than Safari 10 did. It's not awful, but it's not ideal either.

I do have several pages and tabs open, which may be part of it. But I've also got plenty of memory (16 GB), with few other applications open. Activity Monitor shows Safari using 1.1 GB memory. When I clicked from Activity Monitor into Safari, Safari's CPU use went from 0.2% to something like 65% for a moment, then dropped to 0.5%-1.5% as I'm typing this (with intermediate stops bouncing around 5-8%).

Now, this is on a 2010 MacBook Pro (2.4 GHz Core2Duo) running Mac OS 10.11.6. A later Mac or later OS version might work better with Safari 11. (Also have a Samsung EVO 850 1 TB SSD, but I don't think that's relevant.)

The base mid-2011 iMac had a 2.5 GHz quad-core i5, or the base late-2011 had a 2.7 GHz Core i5, either of which is a lot faster than my MBP.

[Winston]

Further update: I now think Safari was being slowed down by a couple of pricing extensions I added, Honey (looks for other prices on Amazon), and InvisibleHand (looks for prices on other sites). I haven't found either to be particularly helpful.

InvisibleHand today didn't find Amazon's price on the Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB even when I used it manually for a search, and Honey doesn't seem to add much to what I can find on my own. Honey does offer a tracking option which will notify you of a price drop.

Disabled both and the one-second beachballs seem to have gone away.