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Apple Updates Safari for Improved SSL Authentication
An anonymous reader writes "Safari upate is available from Apple on Software Update. This updates to Safari 1.0 Beta 2 (v74)." Says Apple, "This update is recommended for all Safari users and improves how Safari validates the authenticity of websites that use SSL certificates."
There's nothing like seeing "2 minutes remaining" turning into "20 minutes remaining" that brings a smile to my face.
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Microsoft seems to twiddle their thumbs when security issues are found. Apple has been pretty good with security issues, even in their beta software like Safari.
Nice to know they fix stuff very fast when it occurs. This was only announced a couple of days ago.
Microsoft is a whole lot slower to release stuff even when they are caught with their pants down which is usually what happens.
Oh... I saw it because I was logged in and my prefs say to show me everything. Now I feel like a tard. :(
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Check the creation date on the updated app. It was built a couple of days ago.
I'm guessing they just had to run it thru QA since then to make sure they didn't break something else by fixing this.
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Come on - it was a joke. The real reason is to pad out the distance between dupes and M$ bashing articles.
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Actually for the fraction of users who load apple.slashdot.org this is "stuff that matters". It's a section meant to be read by Mac users (read: potential Safari users)...see ?
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One May 9, Secunia released an advisory entitled Apple Safari and Konqueror Embedded Common Name Verification Vulnerability. The summary is, "Apple Safari and Konqueror Embedded fails to validate the Common Name of a SSL certificate. This makes it possible to spoof SSL sites, so that users can't trust the authenticity of a SSL website." They also add, "NOTE: This does not affect the ordinary version of Konqueror."
The latest Safari update has broken the ability to submit bugs via Apple's BugReporter
Now, is this because the Safari fix is incorrect? Or because Apple's own BugReporter is violating the rules?
And would you like to tell me what percent of computer users use Linux?
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That's okay. It's still pretty trivial, unworthy-of-Slashdot news.
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...from using the term authentification.
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And I'm glad that the ssl fix came in. But does anyone know if that nasty memory leak is fixed too?
a thought - by computer users do you also include computers that use computers, or do you only mean people who use computers?
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Maybe it's just me, but it does seem a bit snappier, both in page display and page downloading. Opening tabs behind the displayed tab seems faster too. Just my $0.02
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n-baxley just posted a troll that less than 5% of apple.slashdot.org readers, themselves less than 5% of Apple users, themselves a mere 5% of computer users, would ever consider reading. Woot!
At home I do NOT have high-speed access, just dial-up over crappy 80 year-old lines (parts of the path from wall jack to telco interface are the original wires from when the building was first wired).
I prefer NOT automatically loading images, instead individually selecting the ones I actually need to see, or in the extreme case, selecting the menu choice (or clicking the 'load images' button) to load the whole page.
As much as I'd like to say 'buh-bye' to Internet Exploiter I simply can't, at least not at home.
Perhaps there's something I'm missing, and I don't have to burrow through and change preferences in Safari each time I want to do this?
Oh, and I guess that the security fixes are also a good thing.
Theory and practice are the same in theory, but different in practice.
In the appearance pane in prefrences uncheck "Display images when the page opens".
Volia, images will not loaded automatically, as you prefer. This has been there since before beta2 iirc.
I can't see how you're supposed to load them manually though...
"The worst tyrannies were the ones where a governance required its own logic on every embedded node." - Vernor Vinge
Or more importantly, of those Linux users are not IT People or Computer Geeks like us?
Voting them all out of office, now that's change I can believe in.
The user notes that he knows about that preference of not loading images.
What is missing in Safari is the ability to manually load individual images when you have images set to not load.
Apparenlty MSIE has this feature, I know iCab has it (along with a lot of other's I'd like to see in Safari).
When images aren't loaded, you can right-click (cmd-click) on the image placeholder and choose something like "load image", and only that image will be loaded. In iCab this is especially useful, as sometimes your image filtering rules cause a useful image to not load. That's the price I pay for not being forced to load all those damned flashy GIFs and springy FLASH animations though.
I'm sure this will make it in to Safari at some point, perhaps the initial non-beta release. While we're at it, I'd like a way to disable the "You seem to be looking for something" dialog when you click the "back" button more than few times. So many of the site's don't change their page titles, and going back one-by-one is the only way to locate the content again without page previews.
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Does any body know a solution howto use https via squid proxy (beta2/v74)? This is the only reason to sometimes use Explorer on my macs here ...
After rebooting OS X, it all works again. Move along, nothing to see here.
What I would like to see is the ability to 1) choose "Load Images" from a main menu (having a command key equivalent) and a button in the toolbar; and 2) context-click an image placeholder and select "Load Image" to see that particular image.
These are things I can currently do with IE. There are other IE functions that I also appreciate, mostly having to do with history organization and custiomizability, that I'd like Safari to include, but for now, over a pokey 56K (more like 44K) dialup, avoiding all the bandwidth wastage from poorly designed, unnecessarily graphic-laden web pages is absolutely crucial.
When I can do this with Safari, I will most probably kick IE to the curb.
Theory and practice are the same in theory, but different in practice.
Nice to see they're fixing something that has to do with security, say many. But this browser, almost a half year into pre-release now, still stinks. It can't render more than 1/3 of web pages correctly. What do Apple do? Contact web sites and make them change their HTML. What a solution.
There are cosmetic bugs galore in this trash heap, and no amount of bug reporting makes a difference, despite many of them being beginner, 1st grade mistakes. Frankly, given that Apple didn't have to write the browser code, but only have to get their Cocoa act together, it's a surprise and a shame they can't do better.
And the worst of it? Safari is slowest in the world at HTTPS. So excruciatingly slow the browser simply cannot be used.
Frames cannot be adjusted in size. Try going to images.google to see.
Someone wants us to take this "browser" seriously? Forgive me, but I'm out of here. Form over function falling flat on its face.
As much as I'd like to say 'buh-bye' to Internet Exploiter I simply can't, at least not at home.
Um, Safari is hardly the only non-MSIE browser available for Mac OS X. Try Camino, or Mozilla, or OmniWeb, or iCab.
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