Mac OS X 10.4.3 Released

parry writes "Software Update just delivered the Mac OS X 10.4.3 update to my PowerBook. Key changes include improved responsiveness when searching in Spotlight, Safari now passes the Acid2 test, better performance for MS-DOS formatted volumes and numerous bug fixes."

Comments

Seems to work fine...

[knightinshiningarmor]

I installed it a few hours ago and everything seems about right. The only problem I've had so far is in starting up Safari:

Safari 2.0.2 (v416.12) has not been tested with the plugin PithHelmet 2.6.1 (v70). As a precaution, it has not been loaded. Please contact the plugin developer for further information.

Any ideas on getting this working?

Anyone with iTunes 5 done the OSX upgrade yet?

[artifex2004]

If you have, did it stealth update to iTunes 6?
I don't want 6, yet.

Re:What will it be for early downloaders...

[Uart]

OSX updates are usually pretty solid. I haven't installed this one yet, but I will before I go to bed (and therefore don't have to stop everything to reboot. I am always VERY confident to install Apple updates -- I personally haven't experienced any problems, except with Safari when it was still "beta" and that hardly counts.

Yeah, there is a chance that this update will wreak havoc, but considering how responsible Apple is about these sorts of things, I can't imagine that it would.

Non-iMacs using Front Row beware

[rshane]

Although I've had no problems with Front Row since I upgraded my Mini, there have been several reports of Front Row failing to work for those not using iMacs (shame on you, pirates! ;)) after this upgrade. Use at your own risk.

NOTE: If you didn't install the Developer Tools

[KURAAKU Deibiddo]

someone brought it to my attention to that you will only have the Property List Editor if you installed the Developer Tools. not to worry, if you don't have it. all you need to do is use TextEdit (or BBedit if you have it). the command for that looks like this (again, all one line):

open -a "TextEdit" "/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/PithHelmet.bundle/Contents/Info.plist"

about two-thirds of the way down, you want to change this bit:

<key>MaxBundleVersion</key>
<string>412</string>

to:

<key>MaxBundleVersion</key>
<string>416</string>

it should look like this (with the changed line highlighted in green.

again, save and quit and you should be all set. apologies for forgetting that Property List Editor requires the Developer Tools to be installed in the first post.

Re:Shnappy Shnappy

[cpt kangarooski]

He is incorrect, as downloading is capable of being copyright infringement, which can rise to the level of a crime in the United States. But you're incorrect too. You can't use a stolen property law as a substitute for a copyright law; this was settled decades ago by the Supreme Court.

I Broke Safari's ACID2 Support

[nuxx]

By visiting the ACID2 test and then scrolling downward in Safari using my Apple Mighty Mouse I'm able to break the ACID2 test rendering. Here is a screenshot of it. The face breaks and the better part of it scrolls across the page. I don't think this is the expected behavior, but I guess I may be wrong?

Re:I Broke Safari's ACID2 Support

[Yaztromo]

Perhaps not. Part of the Acid2 test is to test various positioning mechanisms. Some are static, some are more relative. It may just be that the elements which were left behind were the static elements.

AFAIK, Acid2 isn't really designed with scrolling in mind. I'm surprised you're able to scroll the page at all.

Yaz.

Re:WARNING!!! 10.4.3 render iBook G4 not bootable!

[coldwd]

It looks like this is not an apple issue, the user had their own version of /etc/ttys that 10.4.3 had an issue reading:

I think I found the culprit: the updated system didn't like my version of /etc/ttys (that used to work under 10.4.2). Therefore, loginwindow couldn't start. I figured that out when adding my extensions file by file...

I had /etc/ttys configured to open a LoginHook, and seems there somehow was an additional newline character.

All seems to be working fine, now. Thanks for all your suggestions.

I'd be very wary anytime I updated if I'm changing stuff in /etc. Do you have any local modifications going on that could be the cause of your issues?