Tag: SAFARI 5

Apple has updated Safari today, bringing the browser to version 5.0.4 for Windows and Mac. Although, as hinted at by the version number, this isn't a major release that adds new features and functionality, it's a highly recommended update because of the sheer number of security vulnerabilities that it fixes: 62. These vulnerabilities are detailed in a dedicated Apple knowledge base article. While ...

Pwn2Own, the annual three-day browser hackathon, has already claimed its first two victims: IE8 on Windows 7 64-bit, and Safari 5 on Mac OS X. Google Chrome looks set to survive for its third year in a row. Internet Explorer 8 was thoroughly destroyed by independent researcher Stephen Fewer. "He used three vulnerabilities to bypass ASLR and DEP, but also escape Protected Mode. That's ...

As soon as Safari 5 was released and support for 3rd-party extensions was announced, users began wondering just how long it would take for many of their favorite Google Chrome and Firefox add-ons to be ported. If you've been waiting for the awesome secure password and form fill tool LastPass, good news -- the Safari 5 extension is ready to rock. Once you've installed the LastPass extension and ...

My favorite userstyle for Google Reader is Snow Leopard. It uses space much more efficiently and looks much prettier than Reader's default UI. In fact, I like it so much that it's become weird to see the default skin. Now there's good news for anyone else who likes Snow Leopard as much as I do: the Snow Leopard userstyle is now available as a Safari extension for Safari 5! Of course, you ...

One of the most talked-about features in Apple's new Safari 5 browser is Safari Reader, the button that delivers a stripped-down, ad-free, extra-readable version of any web article. If that sounds an awful lot like the open source Readability bookmarklet we've covered on Download Squad in the past, that's because it is. The Register reports that Apple used some of the code from Readability -- ...

So, you've downloaded Safari 5 to give it a go and you wish you could try out some extensions? There's a little manual hacking to do, but it's as simple as clicking through some menus. click the gear icon on the right side of your Safari menu bar. click preferences. click advanced. check the box marked Show Develop menu in menu bar click the develop menu and then ...

Ok, so there was a little bit of a hiccup between PR Newswire announcing that Safari 5 had been released and the actual bits being made available for download, but it's here now... So I figured I'd take a quick look at the new version and see how it stacks up. My first stop with any new browser is Futuremark's Peacekeeper. On my home system running Windows 7 and an AMD Phenom 9550, Google ...

After speedy new updates to Opera and Google Chrome, Safari's looking pretty slow these days. Fortunately for Apple, Safari 5 might be ready to go at Apple's developer conference, WWDC, later this week. Although the focus of WWDC looks like it will mostly be mobile -- that impending new iPhone and the just-released iPad are hot hot hot -- the desktop version of Apple's browser could get some love, ...