![]() In the Pwn2Own contest at the 2008 CanSecWest security conference, Safari caused Mac OS X to be the first OS to fall in a hacking competition. It received critical criticisms for its software distribution, Window security updates, modernized failure, and its deliberate limitation in ad blockers and tracking protection. Safari Developer Program which granted members the privilege to develop extensions for the browser was available for $USD 99 per year. As of September 2021, it was ranked as the second most-used web browser after Google Chrome, with an approximate 18.43% of market share worldwide, and 38.88% in the US. ![]() Pictured from left to right: Netscape Navigator, Cyberdog and Internet Explorer for Mac were the predecessors of Safari. Prior to 1997, Apple's Macintosh computers were shipped with the browsers Netscape Navigator and Cyberdog. It was later replaced by Microsoft's Internet Explorer for Mac within Mac OS 8.1 under the five-year agreement between by Apple and Microsoft. In these periods, Microsoft announced three major revisions of Internet Explorer for Mac which were used by Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9, though Apple continued to support Netscape Navigator as an alternative. In May 2000, Microsoft ultimately released a Mac OS X edition of Internet Explorer for Mac, which was bundled as the default browser in all Mac OS X releases from Mac OS X DP4 to Mac OS X v10.2. Before the name Safari, a couple of others were drafted including the title 'Freedom'. ![]() For over a year, it was privately referred to as 'Alexander', which means strings in coding formats and 'iBrowse' prior to Safari was conceived. ![]()
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