

The Mac has long let you run multiple apps in separate windows, but you've been limited to one app when it's in full-screen mode.
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Or you can install a separate browser, such as Google's Chrome, and play your Netflix or Hulu video there.

It works better when playing video in a stand-alone app, such as iTunes. If the video you're watching is playing in the same browser, the audio for that will mute, too. With the computer's mute button, it's all or nothing. Safari now has a speaker icon to instantly mute all audio playing in the browser, without affecting audio elsewhere. This gets annoying if you're watching video in another window. With tabs, the new site sometimes replaces the site you were on.Īs websites get aggressive at delivering video ads and content, audio might play automatically. A key difference is when you click on an external link and leave a pinned site, the browser opens a new tab, so you don't lose your place on the pinned site. You might say this sounds like browser tabs. If you visit another website and come back, pins remember where you left off - as long as you don't close the browser. Once you get OS X El Capitan v10.11, here are six features worth checking out:Ī pin is like a bookmark on Apple's Safari browser, except the website you're pinning is always open and refreshing in the background. Sometimes, it takes app makers weeks or months to catch up, especially for non- Apple apps. Just back up your system before upgrading, and make sure any apps you use frequently will work with the new system.

Though you're not getting a lot of new functionality, OS X El Capitan v10.11 is packed with goodies that will shave off seconds here and there.
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Nonetheless, it's an upgrade worth having, especially as it's free. It's as though the new OS X isn't big enough to leave Yosemite. In real life, El Capitan is a rock formation in Yosemite National Park. Apple's OS X El Capitan v10.11, which releases Wednesday via the Mac App Store, won't offer dramatic changes, but rather refinements and enhancements to the current OS X system, called Yosemite.
