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CNET News - Apple upgrades Safari with faster page rendering

2013-06-10
in the last decade life Safari has focused not just on providing the easiest to use the most elegant browsing experience but also the most innovative these are the kinds of innovations that Safari is broad private browsing blocking of third-party cookies for privacy making the web easier to read with features like reading list and the html5 audio and video tag all Safari firsts and the engine and Safari web kit juice by over 1.5 billion devices well in mountain lion we're making Safari even better we have a great clean new homepage with top sites from there you can get at great sidebar where you have access to all of your bookmarks and you can browse right from your bookmarks and in that sidebar we also have reading list we're now you can continuously scroll through your articles moving from article to article without ever having to click and a great new feature called shared links where you see all of the links shared by people you're following on Twitter and LinkedIn you can browse them right here now in addition to these end-user improvements there's also a lot going on under the hood big improvements to JavaScript a full process per tab architecture and memory efficient is the improvements with shared memory resource cash and a whole bunch of big power savings as well so far uses way less energy than chrome and when you compare to Firefox it's just kind of sad so that's Safari I'd love to give you a demo of some of our advanced technologies in Safari right now so let's start with responsiveness and I'm going to go now into male and so here we have a mailbox with about a hundred thousand messages in your inbox and I just want to show you how how you scroll now with that accelerated scrolling perfectly smooth incredibly fast almost 60 frames a second whenever you do it it's just epic and when you look here at scrolling through a conversation this is a conversation with 26 messages in it again just super glassy smooth super fast it's really really nice let's take a look at that in safari in Safari we've improved scrolling for more popular websites and actually optimized heavily for retina displays so now it's just super fast super smooth now let's take a look at power yeah there's a fan of smooth scrolling right there in the front I'm a fan of smooth scrolling as well so let's take a look at power usage have a power meter up here that's showing CPU activity in Safari and you notice right now it's quite low just we're not doing anything but let's go into a website that's gonna use a lot of power and you notice the power meter shoot right up because we're doing a lot of animation here using on a cpu and that's okay that's what the CPUs for it's doing something cool for me right here but very often you'll have something like this happening in an ad off in the corner you've covered this window up and yet it's still draining your battery life you don't even realize it well now with this technology we call app nap we keep track of what's going on and what things you actually see to decide where to direct power so watch what happens when I bring up this iTunes window over the safari window power drops right now that's extending your battery life
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