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Safari versions can never work on older Mac OSes, correct? I would love to stay on High Sierra or Mojave and get Safari 14. I’m assuming since it is so integrat
by skinnymuch 6y ago
Safari versions can never work on older Mac OSes, correct? I would love to stay on High Sierra or Mojave and get Safari 14. I’m assuming since it is so integrated into the OS, it uses Big Sur specific APIs and references.
Too bad. I am happy enough with any macOS from a couple of years ago, but this Safari change is the first thing I can readily recall caring about for an upgrade.
A lot of my reasoning is liking Safari being lightweight. Upgrading to Big Sur would probably far more than cancel out any gains of using Safari more.
Safari still doesn’t appear to have profiles or an easy way to hack it. Good Safari web extensions that can help toward that might not come out that quickly if the extensions need some rework and packaging and be published with the $100/year fee.
- valleyer 6y agoUpdates of Safari are made available for the two preceding releases of macOS. For example, Safari 13 shipped with Catalina, but it's also available for Mojave and High Sierra. Any OS features not available on those earlier OSes are disabled, of course, but Web features tend to be unaffected. For example, Safari 13 doesn't support dark mode on High Sierra.
- skinnymuch 6y agoOh awesome. I never noticed or thought about it before. Seems like this means web extensions will be available on Mojave. Looks like that’ll be my OS until I upgrade computers. Thanks.
- robertoandred 6y agoSafari has historically been released for the two previous versions of macOS.