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Safari Beta 2 Available

pldms writes "Safari Beta 2 is available via Software Update or from the Safari page. This is build 73, for those who've had 'exclusive' access to previous development versions since beta 1 ;-) The blurb: 'Safari Beta 2 introduces tabbed browsing to conveniently see and switch between multiple web pages in a single window, and AutoFill to instantly fill out web forms and password fields. This update also features increased standards compatibility and improved application stability.'" I had to set Lax Certificate Checks in the Debug menu to use it with Slashdot ... and its secure cookie check is still quite broken (either saves secure cookies without the secure flag, or sends out secure cookies to insecure sites, which would violate RFC 2965 where it says "no less than the same level of security").

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  1. Dear Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dear Apple,
    I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.

    with much gayness,

    Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.

    1. Re:Dear Apple by alfredo · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      I distinctly remember GW Bush using an Apple Powerbook while campaigning. Rush uses Macs too. In fact, rush likes them so much, he is an advocate for them.

      bush may have changed over to the dark side since his top advisor Ralph Reed was a lobbyist for MS, and MS gave big bucks to the Bush campaign.

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  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    fp you fucking nazis!

  3. Dear Father O'Day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Dear Father O'Day:

    Thanks for your letter. Being Catholic myself, I know exactly what you're talking about! It has always been our plan here at Apple Computer Inc to revolutionize personal computing with our high-quality and highly gay products.

    I'm happy to answer your letter by letting you know that YES we will be releasing an entire hLife ("homo-life") software line. You'll be able to recognize it in stores by the small stylized logo depicting a large cock entering a tight anus with an Apple logo on it. ("Suddenly it all comes together" indeed!).

    Anyway, I hope you and other members of our community will join us on our mission, and purchase the exciting new hLife boxed set. Only the boxed set comes with translucent cock rings!

    Sincerely,

    Harry Rodman
    Vice-president
    Homosexual Liaison Services
    Apple Computer, Inc.

  4. Camino by jackschwarz · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, lets hope its making big improvements. I seem to be using the nightly builds of Camino on a regular basis while Safari is collecting dust. Camino now has a Google search feild and a similar bookmark features and its open source. Why use Safari any more?

  5. Opera? by Tsunamio · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Why not just use Opera for Mac? Tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, speed, it's got it all. Sure, you can't get the most recent version for Mac, but after spending a week using Safari at my Dad's place, unless this version significantly changes everything about it, Opera 6 is a definate improvement.

  6. mac problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

    I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

  7. Re:The perfect browser? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    most apple users wish they were "well-hung"

  8. Re:Debug menu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I thought MACS were supposed to be easy to use? That seems pretty non-intuitive.