Apple releases Safari 5.0.1, extensions are live, address book bug patched

By on Jul 28, 2010 at 10:39 AM
General July 28, 2010

This morning, Apple released an update to its Safari web browser. The biggest new feature that the update packs is the ability to customize Safari with third-party extensions which can be found at extensions.apple.com (welcome to 2010 Apple). Aside from being able to install AdBlock, the update also fixes that little address book bug that was discovered last week. We’ve got the full release notes for you after the break.

New in this update:
  • Safari Extensions
    • 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 http://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 http://www.facebook.com, http://www.crateandbarrel.com, and other sites when using Flash 10.1
  • Fixes an issue that prevented boarding passes from http://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

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  • SVELTE

    Nice… bout time.

  • George

    They have quite some catching up to do if they want to match the add-ons and extensions found in Firefox and Chrome.

  • http://davidlevine.posterous.com David Levine

    I’ll have to give this a try when I get home. It looks like they have a good number of extensions to start off with. It’s nice that they are categorized.

  • Dream

    Finally Now i can change the Theme on Safari. Ive always wanted to change the progress bar color.

    • Colin

      where do I change the theme?

  • serpentor

    I hope someone makes visual tabs a la Tab Sidebar for Firefox. It’s the only way to browse.

  • Perspective

    It’s not about catching up. Do you think the Android Market wants to “catch up” to the App Store? Of course not. . .they just need to have a rich enough selection to stop people from using the “not enough apps” criticism as a reason for choosing another handset. Similarly, Apple offers these extensions as a simple response to the “I won’t use any browser that doesn’t offer extensions” crowd. End of story.

  • Jayrodathome

    So now microsoft is the only one without a good extension offering?

    • rederikus

      But their excellent browser is installed on nearly everyone’s PC so who cares about Safari – yawn.

      • jarrett

        @ rederikus,

        Did you really use the term “excellent browser” in reference to IE? Whoa! You must be on the IE team because there is no way any sane user of the Windows platform would refer to IE as “excellent”.

  • http://www.helixzone.net helix2301

    I run firefox on my mac pro but I downloaded and installed the update for security reasons anyway.

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