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Mozilla ponders ending Firefox support for Leopard

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 1st, 2011)

Leopard owners, it might be time for you to update your operating system. It's four years old, and companies, including Apple, are no longer supporting it. Earlier this year, 1Password dropped support for OS X 10.5 Leopard, and now Mozilla may do the same with Firefox. Mozilla engineering ...

QuickTime 7.7 released for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows

by Chris Rawson (Aug 3rd, 2011)

QuickTime 7.7 has been released for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows 7, Vista, and XP. The update addresses several security holes in this older version of QuickTime and is a recommended update for systems running QuickTime 7.6.9 or earlier. Mac users who are running Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion ...

TenFourFox brings Firefox 4 to PPC Macs

by Samuel Gibbs (Apr 27th, 2011)

Firefox 4 received quite a bit of fanfare when it finally rolled out of beta. Unfortunately for some Mac users, Mozilla decided to drop support for PowerPC processors and therefore Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger from FF4, meaning that G3, G4 and G5 users were left out in the cold. If you're one of these ...

Mac OS X Leopard security update available

by Chris Rawson (Nov 12th, 2010)

On Wednesday, Apple released Security Update 2010-007, which patches a critical security flaw in Mac OS X Leopard. The update is approximately 241 MB and contains numerous security patches, including an updated version of Adobe's Flash Player plug-in. Note that this security update is for Mac OS X ...

Critical security warning issued for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

by Chris Rawson (Nov 9th, 2010)

Computerworld reports that security researchers from CoreLabs have publicly released details on a critical security flaw in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, an older version of the Mac's operating system. Curiously, the security flaw in Leopard is quite similar to a flaw we reported on back in August, which ...

Apple Security update 2008-005 released

by Cory Bohon (Jul 31st, 2008)

Apple has just released a new security update for client and server users of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard). This Security update 2008-005 is "recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X," and includes fixes for a dozen or so features in Mac OS X. This update fixes a ...

So what other tricks can we expect from Leopard?

by Nik Fletcher (Oct 16th, 2007)

Along with today's announcement of Leopard's release date, Apple has also now updated the Mac OS X site to reflect all the enhancements you can find in the latest release of OS X. So, what's new? Apple, clearly keen to show what they've been working on in the last few months (what with the delay ...

Hidden Windows BSOD in Leopard beta

by Mike Schramm (Jun 26th, 2007)

Oh Apple devs, you are so funny. In a move that's sure to bring on the flames from the Mac vs. PC crowd, it looks like Leopard's developers have left this little jokey joke in Leopard's Finder that's been making the rounds-- when a Windows share becomes unreachable or fails to connect appears in ...

More Leopard delay reaction

by Michael Rose (Apr 13th, 2007)

A quick roundup of some additional reactions to the Leopard delay announcement -- if you haven't read David's cogent analysis, well, we'll wait: Daniel Jalkut worries that Apple can't fight two wars at the same time, developmentally speaking, and should globalize development efforts John ...

Thoughts on the Leopard delay announcement and TUAW comments

by David Chartier (Apr 12th, 2007)

Apple may have just dealt us the bad news about Leopard, but already reactions are pouring in from across the web and even on our own comment thread. This announcement is huge, and it'll take a while to unpack it all, but I've had some early thoughts and reactions on what this all means, and I ...

Leopard makes an Amazon appearance

by Laurie A. Duncan (Jan 4th, 2007)

Apple's next-gen OS, Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, is expected to ship in Spring '07. This is not a secret. But somehow we feel better when Amazon confirms it for us. As Nelson pointed out in the iWork '07 on Amazon comments, they are already listing Leopard with a note that says "Scheduled to ship ...

List of Leopard-only apps is growing

by David Chartier (Jan 2nd, 2007)

Cocoa Blogs has linked a blog post from Gus Mueller, developer of such apps as VoodooPad, that an upcoming FlySketch 2.0 update will be Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard-only. This adds to a growing list of upcoming app releases such as TextMate 2 and Delicious Library 2 which will only play with Apple's next ...

TextMate 2.0 will likely be Leopard-only

by Laurie A. Duncan (Nov 15th, 2006)

In what would seem, on the surface, to be an odd move for a text editor, Macromates has stated that TextMate 2.0 will almost certainly be Leopard-only. Allan Odgaard gives some good reasons as to why, though. And it's not just because the Halloween icon will look better with Leopard's resolution ...

Rumor: portable user accounts coming in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?

by David Chartier (Oct 16th, 2006)

A new Apple patent uncovered by PC Pro hints at the possibility of portable user accounts making their way into the Spring '07 release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. For a quick break down: the long-standing rumor has been that this would allow a user to keep their account - the entire home directory, ...

Why wait for Leopard? Get Dash Clipping now

by David Chartier (Aug 9th, 2006)

Let's face it: Apple on Monday previewed some really slick new features in the next version of Mac OS X, but they aren't going to let us get our hands on them until some time next spring. Even though that's technically 6 months or so away, that's really like a few years when translated into computer ...