Apple Releases Safari 6 for OS X Lion with Offline Reading List, Smart Search

OS X Lion may be dead and gone, but that doesn't mean those who choose to ignore OS X Mountain Lion will be entirely left out in the cold -- Apple has just pushed out Safari 6 for last year's big cat which brings all of the same cool features.

Apple has released Safari 6 for OS X Lion on Wednesday, which helps those of us who can't (or don't want to) upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion have at least a little feature parity with our Mac brothers and sisters who have moved on to the latest big cat.

New features include the Smart Search Field, which brings a Google Chrome-style omnibar to Safari at long last. That means there's just one field for typing both URLs or searches.

Safari's Reading List has also gotten beefed up with offline mode. Users can now save an entire webpage and have it synced via iCloud for reading anytime, even when there's no internet connection available.

Do Not Track is another new feature which prevents websites from tracking you online while using Safari 6, and a new Password pane helps manage your saved website logins right from the browser.

Safari 6 also includes Baidu support for Chinese users as well as a number of improvements to stability, compatibility, usability and security. These include the ability to now swipe to navigate while viewing PDF files, restore the state of Reading List when Safari is launched, fix an issue with full-screen video in webpages that have positioned content and restore the user's previous cookies after Private Browsing without the need to relaunch Safari.

Whew! Lots of cool stuff for OS X Lion users, so head to Software Update and download your Safari 6 update today.

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