“Safari 5 has been a big hit, and user response to the innovative new Safari Reader has been fantastic,” said Brian Croll, Apple’s vice president of OS X Product Marketing. “We’re thrilled to see so many leading developers creating great extensions and think our users are going to love being able to customize Safari.”
Interestingly, Apple PR has a nice long section of their press release devoted to Bing:
“We’re excited to continue working closely with Apple to bring visually compelling Bing experiences to Safari,” said Jeff Henshaw, general manager of Bing User Experience. “The Bing Extension for Safari brings Bing search intelligence to everyday browsing with Safari. When a user selects text in Safari, Bing instantly recognizes what they might need and pops up helpful, informative tips, from real time maps and driving directions to real time translations to direct web search results.”
The new version of Safari is available from Apple’s website, or via Software Update. The Extension Gallery can be found on Apple’s site as well.
As is usually the case with Safari updates, a reboot is required — that’s two days in a row on my MacBook Pro. Sigh.