On a phone, minimizing the stuff around the webpage is desperately necessary. The result is a minimalist look that feels like it was taken right out of Safari on iOS 7: One bar, very little text, and everything else is the webpage itself. The new Safari’s interface is minimalistic, with very little browser chrome (or information) visible. (If you want to see the name of the page you’re on, you need to show the Tab Bar-tabs are the only part of the Safari window that can display page names.) All other toolbars are off by default, and the address/search bar no longer even displays a full URL, just the name of the host that’s serving the page you’re viewing. There’s no longer a title bar with the name of webpages, and the “stoplight” window buttons have merged down into the toolbar as they have in some other apps.
It’s clear that Safari is the stock Apple app that has changed the most under OS X Yosemite.īy default, Safari is sparsely decorated in Yosemite. Not everyone uses it (many of my friends and family members prefer Chrome), but as the default browser it’s the window on the Web for most Mac users. If there’s a single app that defines the OS X experience, it’s probably Safari.
