SAFARI 12 UPDATE

Yes, but only in 720, not 1080. Besides, I hate Chrome. I’m just lamenting that Apple is deliberately making a perfectly good alternative to an Apple TV obsolete, not making it clear that this could happen, and not providing a simple way to downgrade safari.

I have to create a time machine back up of a different system running Safari 11, and restore it from that back up (a process that is now on day two of four to back up)...

Now that we understand that Safari 12 will only use h.264 hardware encoding to get 1080p in Netflix et c., wouldn't it have been nice to allow older systems to use the software API at 720p so that we could still use Safari?

Safari gets a lot of it’s stability from being tied to the OS and hardware. Apple may view allowing lower res HTML5 software encoding as crippling the software.

Either way there should be a way to allow pre-2011 hardware owners the foreknowledge to avoid upgrading or lose the ability to run certain tasks. The note about discontinuing support is the last bullet point and does not mention what NAPAI plug-ins are effected.

This makes sense. Thank you. All my Macs which are pre 2011 cannot run Amazon Prime Video after upgrading to Safari 12 all my other Macs 2013 to present can. BTW Amazon tech support doesn't have a clue what the problem is.

Firefox 62.0.2 is streaming fine on all Macs.

Not surprising. Netflix didn't have a clue either, and neither did an Apple Senior Advisor! Sure would have been nice if Apple communicated the consequences of upgrading to Safari 12 before we all did it.

Last bullet point and I had to look up what an NAPAI was. That also didn’t describe what would happen to older machines.

If they had said “discontinues support of Silverlight” I would have avoided the update on the one machine I own that can’t handle HTML5 (ironically the one machine I use as a home entertainment system).

I am now on day 4 of creating a Time Machine back-up of another machine so I can use that to back-grade my safari on my mid 2010 Mac mini (a machine I chose for my home entertainment system because it had a built in DVD player).

I am running a 2015, 13 inch mac book pro with Safari 12 and Mac OS Mojave, and I can no longer view Gumroad media which uses Flash. I have enabled flash for all websites in the preferences and restarted Safari and still cannot view the content. Any suggestions?

Reinstalling Silverlight did not work. No extensions appear in Safari's preferences anymore.

I don't understand the need for Silverlight; it was deprecated long ago and I can watch Amazon Prime for one without any plugins whatsoever.

Sorry on my previous post, forgot to include, i have an early 2013 macbook pro, 2.4Ghz i7 processor. Hope this helps!

I can't find anyway to turn on HTML5 in Safari12 on my mid 2010 Mac Pro (w/ 3GB Radeon 7950).

Its too bad Apple doesn't explain this as part of the upgrade information. It would be nice to know any negative effects an update like this would have.

Already sent feedback days ago, as well as directly with support via chat. While it is a known issue there is no correction needed. We all just need to get the word out here on the communities...

A little explanation: It is a Safari issue as Safari uses hardware encoding for HTML5 and the pre-2011 hardware does not have that encoding built-in. I suppose this is how Safari manages 1080p while Chrome and Firefox, which use the software API, only do 720p. I guess 6-core Westmere Xeons can't process enough to get good playback using the software API. They do fine at 720p in Chrome. And Safari 11 does play Netflix and Amazon.