Apple Updates Safari and Swats Address Book Bug

David W. Martin ()

Apple Updates Safari and Swats Address Book Bug

Apple has released Safari 5.0.1, the latest version of its browser that adds support for the Safari Extensions Gallery and it includes a patch for the recently discovered Address Book bug.

According to Software Update on my Mac the update includes these new features:

  • 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 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 Safari 5.0.1 update you can visit: support.apple.com/kb/HT4276. On that site you will find detailed information about the bugs that Apple has swatted in this update including the one where Safari’s Autofill feature could expose your Address Book information without user interaction.

Safari 5 is available now for both Mac OS X and Windows as a free download at www.apple.com/safari or via Software Update on your Mac.

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  • thirteen

    I’ve had the update for about half an hour and I’ve already added AdBlocker, the Thurly URL shortener, AutoPagerize (that one is *sweet*), and GMail Counter, and I’ve been playing with all of them. No problems at all. Good stuff.

  • http://tekunoloji.com Raymond

    Extensions on Safari look soo…bland…but AdBlocker is nice (amazing advertisers haven’t figured a way around this by now!).

  • ged

    have they stopped safari 5 from crashing all the time? Now THAT would be sweet….

  • http://www.davidwmartin.com David W. Martin

    Ged…here’s a tip. Go download Click2Flash and install it. Now see if Safari crashes less. I have to say once I installed this and used it to block Flash from running automatically, when a site isn’t on my “whitelist”, I found that Safari crashed a lot less. I don’t miss having Flash.

  • king

    Will there be a click2flash extension?
    i think installing it as an extension not as a plugin will make safari run better
    I had Glims and it really made my Safari performance suffer

  • accolon

    Safari 5.0 crashed for me all the time, even with Click2Flash which I’ve been using for a long time. Safari 5.0.1 seems to be a lot more stable.

  • http://tofangsazan-the.blogspot.com/ media_lush

    I’ve tried it a few times with about 4 or 5 extensions enabled and noticed the spinning beachball of death and incredibly slow load times if you open multiple tabs.

    I decided to open Activity Monitor in Utilities folder and see what was going on…. wow!

    WITHOUT EXTENSIONS ENABLED
    I’m used to opening 3 windows each with about 20 or so tabs, I open them one at a time launch the tabs and refresh pages where necessary…. my CPU usage never really breaks past 50% and my Real Memory usage settles at around 1.1gb this obviously increase the more I use Safari.

    WITH EXTENSIONS ENABLED
    The same procedure takes bloody ages and shows the beachball about 80% of the time. I noticed CPU usage shot up to 150% almost immediately and Real Memory usage went up to 1.3gb on just the first window and hit 2.9gb by the time the third window’s tabs were fully loaded…. that’s almost an extra 2 gigs for 5 extensions!

    I disabled Adlbock as I reckoned this was the major culprit but there was no noticeable effect.

    I’ve no idea what on earth enabling extensions does behind the scenes but it makes the way I use Safari slow to a crawl. After using them for the best part of a day turning them off was like seeing a speed bump from a 2010 all aluminum imac from a Bondi Blue.

    I won’t be using the extensions until I see Safari 5.2 where I’ll give it another go.