Apple’s newest Safari Technology Preview brings macOS Monterey features to Big Sur

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In the list of additions (courtesy of José Adorno for 9to5Mac):

  • Streamlined tab bar: Use Tab Groups to save and organize your tabs. Experience the new design. Test your site. Experiment with theme color.
  • Live Text: Select and interact with text in images on the web in macOS Monterey betas on M1 Macs. Improved Safari Web Extensions: Try out the support for declarativeNetRequest, which expanded to 150K content blocking rules and non-persistent background pages for improved performance.
  • Quick Notes: Add links and Safari highlights to remember important information or ideas on the web in macOS Monterey betas.
  • WebGL 2: Try out the improved 3D graphics performance of WebGL running on top of Metal via ANGLE.
  • Web technologies: Experience and test the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web technologies that are available in Safari 15 Beta and included in previous Safari Technology Preview releases.

Here are links to installers for macOS Monterey, and for macOS Big Sur.

I’ve been playing with the Safari Technology Preview on top of my macOS Big Sur install. So far, so good. I’m editing these words in that preview. Note that the Preview is a separate app with its own icon, so you won’t be replacing your existing Safari install.