Safari 4.0.5 released

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Overnight Apple has released Safari version 4.0.5 for Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger and Windows. Let's hope this version is somewhat more stabler than earlier versions of Safari 4.

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Don't know what you're talking about, S4 has always been stable for me.

I don't know if others with better machines will see it, but this update has made a HUGE difference in graphic "smoothness" for my poor old GMA950 chipset. Scrolling, Top Sites in particular -- smooth as silk now, now video oddities when switching.

Oh also just noticed this -- plug-ins (like Evernote and 1Password in my case) load WAY faster now.
 

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Of late the main Safari crashes have been all on sites using Flash. Apple has admitted it's Adobe's Flash Plugin causing all these crashes. I have had many mostly on you tube. Adobe has to address this. Otherwise Safari has been quite stable for me.
 

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The little bit I use Safari has been largely positive in terms of stability as well. Harry, are you experiencing problems with Safari when viewing Flash content perchance (or a page that requires any plugin I guess)?

Also, why would I have to restart OS X to update Safari? Seriously? It's a good thing I don't use it. ;)

EDIT: dtrav beat me to it! I must learn to type faster.
 

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Van, Sorry! :D

I saw the Safari crash words and the first thing that came into my mind was FLASH so had to post a dig at Adobe the the Flash crashes! :D

I even stopped eating my very tasty Pot Roast I made for dinner to attack Flash! :D
 

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Flash was the first thing that popped into my head too. I can't say this for certain (nor do I want to generalize) but I'm sure 90% of browser crashes are due to plugins. This is where Chrome and the new Firefox have it right - plugins in a separate process so the whole browser doesn't go down.
 

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