Safari 5.1 with Full-Screen, Gestures, Reading List, etc.

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Together with the release OS X Lion, new MacBookAir, new Mac Mini and Thunderbolt Display, Apple also released a major update to Safari. With the update it is now Safari has reached version 5.1.

Earlier this version available to developers for a long time. Safari 5.1 brings a number of core features include support for gestures, Reading List, a new feature for privacy and security, and full-screen browsing.

Reading List allows users to save webpages at a later time and read it at different times with new ways to access it from the sidebar. This feature will also get the ability to sync with iCloud which iOS will be released later in the autumn of this year. But for now Reading List was able to work both premises Safari Reader.

New multi-touch gestures and full-screen exclusively given to the Lion. Two features that take advantage of the new API provided by Apple in the latest iOS. You can do double-tap for zooming, swipe to navigation or ‘pinch to zoom’ to focus more on content.

The new privacy and security features included Sandboxing for Safari; namely a privacy panel to see if a site you’re open to access your personal data or not, as well as private AutoFill.

Safari-5.1

Settling in Safari 5.1 also includes support HTML5 which now feels better for games that use the Canvas element. There are also new downloads popover, an additional option in the ‘find’ that you use to search within a webpage. Additionally you will find the Internet Account Setup when you log-in to your Google, Yahoo or AOL from a web browser, which features the ability to send data account to Mail, Address Book and iCal in OS X.