Apple today released Safari 5.0.3 which contains improvements to usability, compatibility, stability, accessibility and security, including the following:
Safari 5.0.3 for Leopard and Snow Leopard:
• 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 Netflix.com and Facebook.com
• Improved stability when using JavaScript-intensive extensions
• Improved stability when using VoiceOver with Safari
Safari 5.0.3 Windows:
• 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
• Fixes an issue that affected playback of some videos shot or edited to include rotations and flips
• Improved stability when typing into search and text input fields on Netflix.com and Facebook.com
• Improved stability when using JavaScript-intensive extensions
• Improved stability when using a screen reader with Safari
Safari 4.1.3 for Tiger:
• 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 Netflix.com and Facebook.com
• Improved stability when using VoiceOver with Safari
For detailed information on the security content of these updates, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
The updates are available via Software Update and also via standalone installers which can be found here.
i don’t care about all that stuff.
the questions is: is it snappier?
I use WebKit, so I get updates almost everyday.
Now where the hell is iOS 4.2? Seems like they’re releasing updates to everything else under the sun.
@R2
Did you forget about the November update announcement? Today is only the 18th.
By “More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field”, I hope they mean “Properly confining search results in the Address Field to addresses, and thereby excluding the page titles (which we admit was a stupid thing to do and we’re sorry so please forgive us).”
My NBA.com LeaguePass viewer no longer seems to work with Safari 5.02, which I think uses Silverlight. It was downloading the stream, but not giving me audio or video. I could move the stream to VLC, and play it there. I hope this works.
I do Care about that stuff. I’m so sick and tired of Safari crashing so often for me. It’s worse when I access Yahoo Mail. Almost every other time I access yahoo mail, it crashes.
I sometimes resort to firefox or chrome. Hope this update finally fixes this.
where the f is 4.2?
Nope. Update still doesn’t fix my Safari Crashing issue. WTF??
Still crashes when accessing Yahoo Mai. Crashes after being in the mailbox for about 5 seconds.
I use Yahoo mail dozens of times a day. Safari never crashes on me.
@ Lilochris
Try using Safari’s “reset” command (under the Safari menu).
If that does not help, create a new user account as a test. Log out and log in to that fresh account. Try the thing that makes Safari crash. If it no longer crashes, try to figure out what is different about running Safari in your normal account. Maybe you have a misbehaving Safari plug-in installed…
FYI – Creating and using a new user account is a good way to trouble-shoot hard-to-fix problems, in general.
I can’t remember the last time safari crashed on me, and I use yahoo mail with it all the time. My homepage is a MyYahoo! Page.
I don’t use Safari, rather opting for the total customisation and over 10,000 add-ons for Firefox.
Some goodies are FireSheep and BlackSheep which you won’t find at Mozilla. Too bad you can only use one at a time though.
http://research.zscaler.com/2010/11/blacksheep-tool-to-detect-firesheep.html
@Lilochris
Download Onyx and run all of it’s cleaning features, preference file checks and restart
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/onyx.html
@Lilochris: Try mainmenu. Does a few more things than Onyx last time I checked.
When I downloaded from support downloads this morning it showed a file size for 5.0.3 for Tiger. There was no option to download it from the Safari page though. ???
The address field behaves like a normal text field again! Yippeeee!!!
The last few versions co-opted the up/down arrow keys, but now you can *again* use them to jump to the front/back of the field. The standard way a Mac handles text entry works really well. I’m glad Apple stopped messing with it in this one field.