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Apple Terminates Safari Seed Program

Posted by chrisd on from the leaks-are-part-of-betas dept.

coolmacdude writes "This morning Safari beta v67 was leaked to the Internet. Because this is the third time it has happened (v62 and v64 were leaked), Apple has apparantly had enough and decided to terminate the seed program that provided unreleased beta verisons to selected developers. In a email sent to all developers and posted on Mike Wendland's blog, Apple says: 'Due to Safari 67 postings to the internet, we have closed the Safari Seed project. We know that the majority of you are not responsible for the leaks to the internet, and we sincerely appreciate your feedback, time and effort with this project.'"

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  1. A few bad seeds... by psoriac · · Score: 5, Funny

    So one could literally say that a few bad seeds ruined it for everyone else...

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    1. Re:A few bad seeds... by Suppafly · · Score: 4, Funny

      or one bad apple depending how you look at it.

  2. Re:Forget Safari seeds by Chmarr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Using the Camino nightly build is hardly a good way of testing Safari.

  3. Uh-oh by tulare · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the interest of full or false disclosure (you decide), I should let you all know that I'm not using v64, which I did not find at macrumors, and it does not have tabbed browsing, which I donot find to be the final feature which makes Safari not kick ass on the mac.

    Had I known that these were seeds that Apple didn't want released, I would of course have downloaded them and used them. I would, after all, want to spoil a good thing

    Move the nots around to make the above true.

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  4. Re:It's out? by bnenning · · Score: 4, Funny
    Should I notify Apple that when you leave the tabs on all the time and "Open in tabs" a docked bookmark that the first tab always looks "active" (though the windowing for the tabs works fine)?


    Sure. Dave Hyatt has been known to possibly fix hypothetical bugs that may or may not occur in Safari versions that may or may not exist.

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  5. Re:Damn Him! by DrMrLordX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, what Apple is not telling you is that they have simply outsourced all their seed programs to Burpee.

  6. Re:Damn Him! by Cloud+9 · · Score: 5, Funny
    That was easily the crappiest play on words I've ever seen.... Considering I've been reading /. comments for 4 years, that's saying a lot.

    You should be ashamed of yourself.

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  7. Re:Too bad by VistaBoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait...you mean that the Microsoft software I buy at the store ISN'T beta software? I always figured it was from how much it crashes. Whoa...if that's NOT beta, I don't think I want to see beta.

  8. Re:Too bad by Alien+Being · · Score: 5, Funny

    "a few had to ruin it for everyone else"

    Admit it. You were about to say "a few bad apples".

  9. Lickability by ElGanzoLoco · · Score: 4, Funny

    Safari's front-end (lickability, bookmarking, etc)

    You enjoy licking brushed metal? Oh, man...

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