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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."
Steve Jobs got out of the left side of bed this morning.
How does a small safari update get posted on the main slashdot page instead of just to apple.slashdot.org ?
Slow news day?
If bad puns were like deli meat, this would be the wurst
There's nothing like seeing "2 minutes remaining" turning into "20 minutes remaining" that brings a smile to my face.
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
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.
Apple just released a minor fix for a browser that a fraction of 5% of computer users are using! This is big news!!
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You just posted a comment that less than 5% of computer users will read. What's the point?
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
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.
"The worst tyrannies were the ones where a governance required its own logic on every embedded node." - Vernor Vinge
Does your name have anything to do with the INIT 1984 virus?
Just wondering
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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?
That's okay. It's still pretty trivial, unworthy-of-Slashdot news.
May we never see th
Mac users are all gay and like to suck off their life partners while using their Macs. Additionally, they film themselves having sodomy and then edit the video on their Macs. I would like to know what everybody thinks on this matter. Thank you in advance.
...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?
What is a "dildoes"? Is that a pickled female deer? I don't see many black female deer, and even fewer of them pickled. It must be some sort of high-class delicacy I suppose.
I certainly don't at all understand at all what use a dead, pickled, female deer would have for a phallically shaped self gratification implement. Nor do I comprehend how one such prepared creature might find itself with a life sentence in prison. In any case, the color of such a thing would be meaningless to the creature as: 1, it is dead and pickled QED; 2. deer are essentially color blind (something you would know if you had read your Guide). Such a device could be red or blue as far as the doe were concerned (which of course, it wouldn't be as deer are much more concerned with things like eating tasty foliage from a larch or perhaps a nice shrubbery, and running away from anything that might want to kill and pickle it.
After your first paragraph, your skit just gets too silly.
silly, silly, silly. Right, that's enough of that. Lets get on to some clean, wholesome, family oriented entertainment.
And now for something completely different... A PC user without a grudge.
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
You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
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
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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