Also, the tab text and status bar text are too small and don't seem to be scalable. And the gray background color of the tab bar and the status bar is too dark.
I’ve got a program that checks all outgoing connections from my software and I do see several programs that do “call home” when they are started. Some I allow and others I don’t.
However, in all the years of using Safari, I’ve never seen it want to “phone home” to Apple.
But, I have seen, when loading certain web pages, that certain of those web pages will trigger a connection on a certain port to a certain outside IP number. That has nothing to do with Apple and has to do with that particular web page that you’ve accessed.
And one other time, I kept seeing certain cookies showing up all the time, even though I never accessed those web pages. The cookie would keep reappearing, after being repeatedly deleted. It wasn’t Apple’s web site, but a completely different company. I finally found out that it has to do with some RSS link that I had in the bookmarks, that was causing it to go back to that web site all the time and reset the cookie. So, I deleted the bookmark and it never did it again.
So, there are a lot of things that can go on, other than Safari “phoning home” to Apple. It doesn’t do that.