Safari celebrates two decades of evolution and challenges!
The browser developed by Apple celebrated its 20th anniversary this week. Since its presentation on January 7, 2003, Safari was classified as the “the fastest web browser ever for Mac” and years later it has established itself as the go-to browser for devices bearing the bitten apple logo. And here we tell you how it has changed since then.
At the 2003 igamesnews Expo in San Francisco, Steve Jobs said that the original version of Safari loaded pages three times faster than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer on the Mac. Until then, under an agreement between Apple and Microsoft, Internet Explorer was the default browser. for Mac from 1998 to the arrival of OS X Panther with Safari in October 2003.
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Safari celebrates its 20th anniversary
Steve Jobs during the presentation of Safari in 2003
Before its official release, a public beta version of Safari for OS X Jaguar became available in January 2003, with key features that include the WebKit rendering engine for faster navigation, Google browsing capabilities integrated directly into the herramientas bar, improved management of markers, optional emerging anuncios blocking, a simpler archival download process and further. Later, the browser extended to other devices:
- A mobile version of Safari was released for the iPhone in 2007.
- A mobile version of Safari was released for iPad in 2010.
- Apple claims that Safari is still the fastest desktop browser in the world and is 50% faster on average to load frequently visited websites than Chrome on Mac.
Even though Safari was eclipsed by Google’s Chrome, launched in 2008currently ranks second among the most popular browsers, especially in the United States, while in other countries this position is contested with other options.
With the release of iOS 16 in 2022, Apple delivered a major Safari update that includes intuitive options for sorting tab groups, passkeys, extension syncing, web push notifications, and more.
