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Apple Updates Safari for Improved SSL Authentication

Posted by pudge on from the i-am-gonna-take-you-surfin-with-me dept.

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."

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  1. That was quick! by Whatchamacallit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  2. Re:Whoo hoo indeed! by Duck_Taffy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And would you like to tell me what percent of computer users use Linux?

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  3. Just Installed lt. . . by Farley+Mullet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And I'm glad that the ssl fix came in. But does anyone know if that nasty memory leak is fixed too?

  4. Faster? by sld126 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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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  5. Security-shmecurity--still needs this feature... by nystagman · · Score: 2, Interesting
    As much as I like Safari (and I do!), I can really only use it at work, not at home, because of how it handles (or refuses to handle) individual loading of images.

    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.

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  6. Safari https via squid proxy by FrankRoscher · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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 ...