Safari – 5.0.4

This update contains improvements to stability, compatibility, accessibility and security, including the following:

– Improved stability for webpages with multiple instances of plug-in content
– Improved compatibility with webpages with image reflections and transition effects
– A fix for an issue that could cause some webpages to print with incorrect layouts
– A fix for an issue that could cause content to display incorrectly on webpages with plug-ins
– A fix for an issue that could cause a Screen Saver to appear while video is playing in Safari
– Improved compatibility with VoiceOver on webpages with text input areas and lists with selectable items
– Improved stability when using VoiceOver

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

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Safari – 5.0.3 update

Safari 5.0.3 Software Update:

This update contains improvements to usability, compatibility, stability, accessibility and security, including the following:

• More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field
• More accurate results in Top Sites
• Fixes 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

 

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Mozilla Firefox – 3.6.10

Firefox 3.6.10 fixes the following issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:

• Fixed a single stability issue affecting a limited number of users

Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the Firefox 3.6.9 release notes for a list of changes in the previous version.

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Mozilla Firefox – 3.6.9

Firefox 3.6.9 fixes the following issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:

• Introduced support for the X-FRAME-OPTIONS HTTP response header. Site owners can use this to mitigate clickjacking attacks by ensuring that their content is not embedded into other sites.
• Fixed several security issues.
• Fixed several stability issues.

Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the Firefox 3.6.8 release notes for a list of changes in the previous version.

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Safari – 5.0.2

Safari 5.0.2 Software Update:

This update contains improvements to compatibility and security, including the following:

– Fixes an issue that could prevent users from submitting web forms
– Fixes an issue that could cause web content to display incorrectly when viewing a Google Image result with Flash 10.1 installed
– Establishes an encrypted, authenticated connection to the Safari Extensions Gallery

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Mozilla Firefox – 3.6.6

Firefox 3.6.6 modifies the crash protection feature to increase the amount of time that plugins are allowed to be non-responsive before being terminated.

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Mozilla Firefox – 3.6.4

Firefox 3.6.4 provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins.

If a plugin crashes or freezes, it will not affect the rest of Firefox. You will be able to reload the page to restart the plugin and try again.

Firefox 3.6.4 also fixes the following issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:

• Fixed several security issues.
• Fixed several stability issues.

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Safari 5

This update contains new features including:

Safari Reader: Click on the new Reader icon to view articles on the web in a single, clutter-free page.

Improved Performance: Safari 5 executes JavaScript up to 25% faster than Safari 4. Better page caching and DNS prefetching speed up browsing.

Bing Search Option: New Bing search option for Safari’s Search Field, in addition to Google and Yahoo!.

Improved HTML5 support: Safari supports over a dozen new HTML5 features, including Geolocation, full screen for HTML5 video, closed captions for HTML5 video, new sectioning elements (article, aside, footer, header, hgroup, nav and section), HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource, WebSocket, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, and HTML5 Ruby.

Safari Developer Tools: A new Timeline Panel in the Web Inspector shows how Safari interacts with a website and identifies areas for optimization. New keyboard shortcuts make it faster to switch between panels.

Other improvements include:

Smarter Address Field: The Smart Address Field can now match text against the titles of webpages in History and Bookmarks, as well as any part of their URL.

Tabs Setting: Automatically open new webpages in tabs instead of in separate windows.

Hardware Acceleration for Windows: Use the power of the computer’s graphics processor to smoothly display media and effects on PC as well as Mac.

Search History with Date: A new date indicator in Full History Search shows when webpages were viewed.

Top Sites/History Button: Switch easily between Top Sites and Full History Search with a new button that appears at the top of each view.

Private Browsing Icon: A private icon appears in the Smart Address Field when Private Browsing is on. Click on the icon to turn off Private Browsing.
DNS Prefetching: Safari looks up the addresses of links on webpages and can load those pages faster.

Improved Page Caching: Safari can add additional types of webpages to the cache so they load quickly.

XSS Auditor: Safari can filter potentially malicious scripts used in cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Improved JavaScript Support: Safari allows web applications that use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to run faster and more securely.

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Google Chrome 5.0.375.55 – The first stable version for Mac, Linux

Google Chrome 5.0.375.55 is the current stable version for Chrome, and the very first stable for Mac and Linux.

You can find more information for the stable release on the Google Chrome Releases blog post.

More details about what’s specifically new for the Mac version can be found on the Official Google Mac blog.

Flash integration will be enabled by default with the upcoming Flash 10.1 release!

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Mozilla Firefox – 3.6.3

Firefox 3.6.3 fixes a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution (see bug 555109).

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