Cookies can be the downfall of every healthy web browser. Just like humans eat too many cookies, browsers can develop serious unreasonable issues when ingesting too much. I always forget how to clear them out, so I thought I’d make a note here. This works for Safari 13 on macOS High Sierra and above. head … Read more
Something rather strange happened to me today: Safari 10 on macOS Sierra refused to let me login to YouTube. All it did was constantly refresh the page in an endless loop, or just display the front page of YouTube. I cleared the caches, reset the history, but no trick seemed to solve the problem. When … Read more
I love Safari – but it has an ultra annoying habit on new installations: it’s trying to be helpful by automatically unzipping ZIP files. It’s the most unuseful feature ever for a techie ever. Thankfully we can switch it off – something you only need to do once every 5 years, and hence it’s easily forgotten … Read more
Web Browsers like to save websites that you’ve visited earlier to speed up how quickly they can be displayed. Everything that should be downloaded from the web is saved as local files (up to a point), and if a browser sees that you’re visiting site again that you’ve just been to, he serves the saved … Read more
Instead of loading a URL into a UIWebView we can also launch Safari to display it: UIApplication *mySafari = [UIApplication sharedApplication]; NSURL *myURL = [[NSURL alloc]initWithString:@”http://www.mydomain.com”; [mySafari openURL:myURL]; The method returns a BOOL value which will feed back if this operation was a success or not: if (![mySafari openURL:myURL]) { // opening didn’t work } […]
