Apple releases Safari 4.0.3 for Mac and Windows

Mac Daily News ^ | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 06:55 PM EDT

[Swordmaker]

Apple today released Safari 4.0.3 which is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to stability, compatibility and security including:

• Stability improvements for webpages that use the HTML 5 video tag
• Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins
• Stability improvements for Top Sites
• Fixes an issue that prevented some users from logging into iWork.com
• Fixes an issue that could cause web content to be displayed in greyscale instead of color

Safari 4.0.3 is available via Software Update and also as a standalone installer.

More info and download links (40MB (Leopard), 26MB (Tiger), 27MB (Windows)) here.

For detailed information on the security content of this update, click here.

[Swordmaker]

Safari 4.0.3 released for both Mac and Windows... PING!

Thanks to TheStickman for the heads up.

Safari Update Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Swordmaker]

Mac OSX.4 Tiger and Mac OSX.5 Leopard users can upgrade using "Software Update..." under the Apple Menu.

[gop4lyf]

Does this apply to my 2nd generation iPod touch?

[smokingfrog]

If anybody uses the Windows version of Safari, I’d be interested in hearing from them what they like about it.

[GOP Poet]

Thanks Swordmaker for the heads up.

[Swordmaker]

Does this apply to my 2nd generation iPod touch?

Nope.

[theFIRMbss]

>If anybody uses the Windows version of Safari, I’d be interested in hearing from them what they like about it

It's coolest feature
(to me) is favorite sites
can be stored as "art"

like the iTune thing
where you select cover art...
You see site "thumbnails"

a bunch at a time
and select visually
where you want to go.

[Terpfen]

That’s called Top Sites. To be fair, it’s also in Google Chrome, Opera, and can be enabled via extension in Firefox.

[TXnMA]

"... (40MB (Leopard), 26MB (Tiger), 27MB (Windows))..."

Any idea why the Leopard version is almost half again as big as the one for Tiger?

[TXnMA]

"Any idea why the Leopard version is almost over half again as big as the one for Tiger?"

[Jet Jaguar]

It is smoking fast on the Windows machine.

[smokingfrog]

How do you update/patch? Is it automatic?

[mtrott]

Well, I had it on a desktop and an older laptop, but I took it off both of them when IE8 and Firefox 3.5 came out.

Something about Safari overheated and bogged down the laptop real bad, never could figure out what was the problem. It was smokin fast on the desktop. Maybe I will give it another try on the desktop.

[Jet Jaguar]

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Jun/msg00000.html

I think this may answer your question.

I have a Mac with a partition that runs Windows XP.

I have Safari on the XP side and could not find a way to update it.

[Swordmaker]

"Any idea why the Leopard version is almost over half again as big as the one for Tiger?"

Not a clue. . . but it may have something to do with core graphics. Tiger doesn't got 'em, Leopard's got 'em.

[zeugma]

One would think that they'd be able to port safari to linux.

[Swordmaker]

One would think that they'd be able to port safari to linux.

They could... It's based on WebKit. I think that the code for Safari is even open. They just haven't.

[Mr. Blonde]

I like that in Safari it has a little star over the sites that has been updated. I don’t believe any of the others do that.

[ExSoldier]

Thanks for the heads up because I just did the download. You're the best!