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Apple Safari

Apple Safari - 5.0.1

Browse the Web with speed and an elegant interface.

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This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 5.0.1
Release Date: 2010-07-28
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 6,856
Downloads (all versions): 498,849

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Product Description:

Before Safari, browsers were an afterthought. Something you put up with if you wanted to surf the Internet. One browser looked and felt just like another, so you chose the one that worked the best and crashed the least. They were ugly, cluttered affairs, whose interfaces competed for your attention and made browsing - the very purpose for which they were created - more difficult. Safari changes all that.

Safari is designed to emphasize the browsing, not the browser. The browser frame is a single pixel wide. You see a scroll bar only when needed. And if you choose, you can hide almost the entire interface, removing virtually every distraction from the browser window. A great browser should get out of your way and let you simply enjoy the web. Safari does just that. And it does it regardless of platform.

The first browser to deliver the "real" Internet to a mobile device, Safari renders pages on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch just as you see them on your computer. But this is more than just a scaled-down mobile version of the original. It takes advantage of the technologies built into these Multi-Touch devices. The page shifts and reformats to fill the window when you turn your device on its side. You zoom in just by pinching and extending your fingers. Of course, no matter how you access it, Safari is always blazing fast and easy to use.

What's new in this version:

Customize Safari with features created by third-party developers Find extensions in the Safari Extensions Gallery, accessible from the Safari menu and extensions.apple.com 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

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.5.8, or 10.6.2 or higher

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Apple Safari ReviewBuggy and slow - Version: 5.0.1, 9/1/2010 07:34PM PST

iGreg
This version really has not worked for me at all. Flash keeps crashing in it. Also, it takes forever for many pages to open. I have switched to Camino.
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Apple Safari Troubleshooting ReportBlack background in Mail.app still present after update - Version: 5.0.1, 7/29/2010 12:59PM PST

AKMedia
Another issue that Apple actually claimed is fixed in Safari 5.0.1 is a black bar or background that hides the text in emails that are generated by other applications, including iCal's "Event Accepted" emails.

That issue is not resolved for me, even after trashing Safari's preferences file.

Apple's KB article explaining this issue is here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3385
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Apple Safari ReviewHopefully it won't crash again ... - Version: 5.0.1, 7/28/2010 05:04PM PST

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jon krop
I just installed the 5.0.1 update; and good lord ... it's crashed out on me at least 20 times this afternoon already. Simple things like closing a browser window trigger it. This is the buggiest version of Safari I've ever used; and I'm running it on a new Mac Pro Tower w/ 6GB of RAM ... Firefox beta 4.2 is working a lot better so far.
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