Filed under: Software Update, Leopard, Beta Beat
New Safari beta update
Gee, quite a day for Apple software updates. Apple has put out an update to Safari beta 4, and the Leopard version requires OS X 10.5.7 which was just released today. There is also a version for Tiger that requires OS X 10.4.11 and security update 2009-002.Here is a download link. As is often the case with Apple, no details on what this brings. I installed and used it for awhile and nothing new jumped out at me. The installer also comes with an uninstaller in case things get ugly. Let us know what you see, or don't see.
Thanks to Barry for spotting this update.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Collin said 8:49PM on 5-12-2009
No issues with the new Safari 4 beta.
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Aviel said 8:53PM on 5-12-2009
The Windows version got an update too, although it just says security fixes.
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Michael Quinn said 8:55PM on 5-12-2009
Only thing "new" I can see is the New Tabs Open With: option in the General Preferences.
Or was that in the previous beta?
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jollyllama said 8:57PM on 5-12-2009
That's not new.
Rory said 8:59PM on 5-12-2009
That was there in the previous.
Yago Bal said 9:08PM on 5-12-2009
I, for one, find the "Top Sites" page to be loading quite quite faster. And it seems the rendering is more refined, but that can be just me...
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fishbert said 9:28PM on 5-12-2009
So, you're saying it feels a bit ... snappier?
motech said 9:18PM on 5-12-2009
what about pinching to zoom on new macbooks?
was very annoying on last version . .
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Sean said 9:30PM on 5-12-2009
Still awfully interprets a small pinch as tearing apart your trackpad.
ABCNEWSER said 10:17PM on 5-12-2009
⌘0 (Command-Zero) to return to 100% zoom.
Arley said 9:27PM on 5-12-2009
It feels a little snappier on the Windows version but I don't see any big changes but expect to see the Safari 4 Beta 2 June - July
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Philster said 10:03PM on 5-12-2009
Can anyone confirm that Glims is still not working with this release of Safari 4 Beta?
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JedixJarf said 10:23PM on 5-12-2009
Glims works like a charm, just like it did in the last beta.
Philster said 10:46PM on 5-12-2009
Thanks, JedixJarf.
Yes, It was Growl that I was thinking of and I see below that it all good now.
I may go ahead and try out this release.
ABCNEWSER said 10:13PM on 5-12-2009
Scrolling seems a bit smoother.
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bikeham said 10:32PM on 5-12-2009
Growl Mail doesn't crash Mail any more! Happy dance :)
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Peter Payne said 11:06PM on 5-12-2009
Bah, biggest problem for me is still here. In Google Reader, command + shift click should open a link in the background, but it always moves to select that tab, no matter what setting I have for tabs. I like to power-click my links in the background so I can surf quickly, but this makes it useless.
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Max said 7:08AM on 5-13-2009
Works as expected here. Shift-command-click on a story title in the reader pane goes to that post on the real site in a new background tab.
muffinru said 11:43AM on 6-17-2009
command-click to open tab in background
command-shift-click to open and move to tab
John Kurokawa said 6:50AM on 5-13-2009
Hotmail seems to work now...
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