Safari 14 is also an end of an era, as this will be the first version of Safari that won't support Adobe Flash Player content.įlash Player is scheduled to reach end-of-life on December 31, 2020, and will be removed from other major browsers as well. What this means for Safari users is that starting this fall, they'll see a huge influx of new Safari extensions as add-on developers are expected to port their existing Chrome and Firefox extensions to work on Apple's browser as well.Īpple said that, for now, WebExtensions will only be available for Safari on macOS. The WebExtension API was initially developed for Chrome but has since been also adopted to Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi, and Edge, and has become the universal standard for creating cross-browser add-ons using common technologies like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. The biggest and most important of the new additions is support for WebExtensions, a technology for creating browser extensions. While Safari didn't get too much of the spotlight at WWDC, Safari 14, scheduled to be released later this fall with iOS 14 and macOS 11, is a release that is packed choke-full with features.
After the flashy presentations of WWDC 2020, Apple has now published more details about some of the new features that are coming to some of its products.