


#Safari for mac os x 10.5 8 update
Paradoxically, though the 4.0.1 Update package is not available for Snow Leopard (requires 10.5.7) and 10.6 is still almost three months away from release with plenty of system-level bugs left to be fixed, virtually all testers we talked to were left scratching their heads in surprise when attempts were made to reproduce the widely reported crashes/misbehavior on 10a380 or more recent builds.Īlthough virtually everything is faster on Snow Leopard - even on previous-generation Intel Macs which don’t support SL’s more advanced features such as 64-bit processing & OpenCL GPU acceleration - the difference between 10.5 & 10.6 when comparing popular Web browsers such as Firefox and Opera is not nearly so dramatic. In fact, in several cases, it would appear that v4.0.1 actually made some of these issues worse. We’ve noted the considerable boost to Safari 4 performance that users of Mac OS X 10.6 build 10a380 have experienced in previous posts to our Twitter feed, and it would appear that a similar difference applies to many of the stability problems readers have been reporting with 10.5.x, even after the recent Safari 4.0.1 Update is applied. Though many readers have reported the problems with Safari 4.x on Leopard, few of the same issues were reproducible by testers/developers and sources who have hands-on access to the latest post-WWDC builds (10a380 and later) of Snow Leopard.
