Safari 5.03 Software Update

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Apple recently released Safari 5.03. This is a minor software update but recommended to be installed. This update contains improvements to usability, compatibility, stability, accessibility and security, including more accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field, more accurate results in Top Sites, fixes for an issue that could cause content delivered with the Flash 10.1 plug-in to overlap webpage content, more reliable pop-up blocking, improved stability when typing into search and text input fields on www.netflix.com and www.facebook.com, improved stability when using JavaScript-intensive extensions, improved stability when using VoiceOver with Safari. For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Safari 5.01

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Last week Apple released Safari 5.01 which now has Safari Extensions. You can customize Safari with features created by third-party developers, find extensions in the Safari Extensions Gallery which are accessible from the Safari menu and extensions.apple.com. You can quickly find extensions that add powerful new features, from toolbars that display live web feeds to sophisticated programs that filter web content. You can also find extensions directly from developers websites. So have you upgraded to Safari 5 and have you added extensions? Let us know what extensions are cool? Here is the official release from Apple.

This update also contains improvements to stability, accessibility and security, including the following:
  • More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field
  • More accurate timing for CSS animations
  • Better stability when using the Safari Reader keyboard shortcut
  • Better stability when scrolling through MobileMe Mail
  • Fixes display of multipage articles from www.rollingstone.com in Safari Reader
  • Fixes an issue that prevented Google Wave and other websites using JavaScript encryption libraries from working correctly on 32-bit systems
  • Fixes an issue that prevented Safari from launching on Leopard systems with network home directories
  • Fixes an issue that could cause borders on YouTube thumbnails to disappear when hovering over the thumbnail image
  • Fixes an issue that could cause Flash content to overlap with other content on www.facebook.com, www.crateandbarrel.com, and other sites when using Flash 10.1
  • Fixes an issue that prevented boarding passes from www.aa.com from printing correctly
  • Fixes an issue that could cause DNS prefetching requests to overburden certain routers
  • Fixes an issue that could cause VoiceOver to misidentify elements of webpages

For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222