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July 28, 2010

Apple releases Safari 5.01 and Extension Gallery

Today Apple pushed out a new version of Safari. The Extension Gallery is live at extensions.apple.com.

New in this update:
Safari Extensions
Customize Safari with features created by third-party developers
Find extensions in the Safari Extensions Gallery, accessible from the Safari menu and extensions.apple.com
This update also contains improvements to stability, accessibility and security, including the following:

More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field
More accurate timing for CSS animations
Better stability when using the Safari Reader keyboard shortcut
Better stability when scrolling through MobileMe Mail
Fixes display of multipage articles from www.rollingstone.com in Safari Reader
Fixes an issue that prevented Google Wave and other websites using JavaScript encryption libraries from working correctly on 32-bit systems
Fixes an issue that prevented Safari from launching on Leopard systems with network home directories
Fixes an issue that could cause borders on YouTube thumbnails to disappear when hovering over the thumbnail image
Fixes an issue that could cause Flash content to overlap with other content on www.facebook.com, www.crateandbarrel.com, and other sites when using Flash 10.1
Fixes an issue that prevented boarding passes from www.aa.com from printing correctly
Fixes an issue that could cause DNS prefetching requests to overburden certain routers
Fixes an issue that could cause VoiceOver to misidentify elements of webpages
For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Hopefully this fixes a lot of bugs that we have been experiencing. We’ll let you know!

Update: It looks like Apple has a pretty well stocked gallery at launch. They have eBay, Twitter, MLB, Amazon, Bing and many more.

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