Official Safari Webkits Builds And News Thread

[Crazysah]

After a long time I post a new build.

Latest Build; WebKit r34813 was built on 27 June 2008 and is a 15.2 MB download

Link: WebKit r34813

[LOC Veteran]

I don't know what's going on with the Apple devs lately working on Webkit here, but every single build since the 16th of June pretty much has crashed Safari 3.1.2 and DP 4 on XP and Vista for me. I had to revert every single time to a pre-16th build, bleh.

Hopefully they can sort this out in a build or two, it's rather annoying.

[wellofsouls]

yup, it seems their latest windows nightlies are really problematic...

[Crazysah]

Hopefully it will get better!

[wellofsouls]

Finally! The latest r35406 nightly build runs okay without crashing for me, loading both Apple start page and Acid3 test with no problem at all.

WebKit r35406 was built on 28 July 2008

http://nightly.webkit.org/

[wellofsouls]

WebKit r35417 was built on 29 July 2008

http://nightly.webkit.org/

seems the pace is picking up again, good to see they are back on track :)

[LOC Veteran]

I still crash on load on the 3.1.2 build of Safari. The Dev 4 preview build doesn't crash, which is pretty funny lol

[wellofsouls]

well it worked for me with Safari 3.1.2 on WinXP, and with Safari 4 DP on Vista x64, not sure about other combinations :p

[Crazysah]

Have you tried the latest build?

Build: WebKit r35417 was built on 29 July 2008 and is a 16.3 MB download.

Link: http://builds.nightly.webkit.org/files/tru...-SVN-r35417.zip

[wellofsouls]

Have you tried the latest build?

Build: WebKit r35417 was built on 29 July 2008 and is a 16.3 MB download.

Link: http://builds.nightly.webkit.org/files/tru...-SVN-r35417.zip

yea, I tried it and it worked perfectly for me :yes:

[Crazysah]

This latest build works absolutely great for me. They are back to regular builds now!

Build: WebKit r36108 was built on 05 September 2008 and is a 23.2 MB download.

Link: http://builds.nightly.webkit.org/files/tru...-SVN-r36108.zip

[Crazysah]

Anybody still use Safari with nightly?

[wellofsouls]

wow, it seems they have upped the revision number a lot in one day.

http://nightly.webkit.org/builds/trunk/win/1

September 7, the revision number goes from 36135 to 36254 :blink:

And it seems the latest nightly (362xx) have reclaimed the crown in Sunspider. Now it's faster than both Chrome and TraceMonkey in the Apple benchmark.

The Javascript speed war is here! :laugh:

[wellofsouls]

the latest nightly r36281 just doesn't want to run. Everything I click run-nightly-webkit, it gaves an error of "can't open browser window". Is this happening to anyone else?

[wellofsouls]

never mind, the latest r36309 fixed it.

[Crazysah]

never mind, the latest r36309 fixed it.

Yeha. That build runs super fast!

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

Oh man, I wish Safari had separators in bookmarks like firefox has. This is the only thing that makes me not use it as I don't like Opera on mac.

[saxondale.]

SquirrelFish Extreme Accelerates JavaScript Even More

The Webkit blog has posted benchmarks on their "next generation" JavaScript interpreter called SquirrelFish Extreme (SFX). SquirrelFish Extreme uses "more advanced techniques" to deliver even faster JavaScript performance.

The new version of SquirrelFish is nearly twice as fast the first version of SquirrelFish which we previously reported on. It is also over three times faster then the current Safari 3.1 version that is available from Apple.

JavaScript is heavily used in many modern interactive websites, including Apple's own MobileMe web apps. Google is also investing heavily in improving JavaScript performance and is working on their own accelerated JavaScript interpreter called V8. According to one blog, SquirrelFish Extreme is 38% faster than the current version of V8.

SquirrelFish is available in the nightly betas of Webkit for personal testing, and should eventually make its way into future Safari releases.

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

why I always have the feeling that I'm alone to ask for separators hehe :(

[Crazysah]

Finally I updated to the latest build after quite a long time. They are releasing almost everyday. Enjoy!

Build: WebKit r37458 was built on 10 October 2008 and is a 23.5 MB download.

Link: http://builds.nightly.webkit.org/files/tru...-SVN-r37458.zip

[Crazysah]

Does anybody still use this?

[saxondale.]

I'm glad they included an updater to the builds.

[Crazysah]

They did? An automatic updater? When?

[bluewind.]

What am I doing wrong? I've been applying the nightlies successfully for many months but a few months ago it would crash every time I would try to reopen safari. I gave up and just now tried applying the latest webkit, which worked when I ran the nightly but crashes every time I try to open Safari up afterwards. I tried other builds but they also crash.

[bluewind.]

Anyone know?