Apple has just come up with it’s latest update to Apple’s Safari browser from it’s current version to version 5.0.1, including many new features, one of them being ‘Extensions gallery’ . Extensions gallery is a center for add-on features as well as toolbars for a variety of of different web programs and services. . The update is available from Apple’s support download site or via Software Update
Apple’s gallery exists to showcase top Extensions in a variety of categories, such as social networking, productivity, and shopping, but third-party developers can continue to develop and distribute Extensions via their own Websites. However, Extensions downloaded from third-party Websites must be installed via the Finder, rather than by the one-click method that Apple’s gallery utilizes. Competing browsers such as Firefox and Chrome have had their own extensions features for some time, so Safari is comparatively launching it late, it doesn’t mean that Apple isn’t throwing its weight firmly behind Safari Extensions, as seen by the popular partners it has lined up, such as The New York Times, Major League Baseball, Amazon, and Twitter, whose Safari Extension is the first of its kind for the social networking site.
Besides enabling Extensions, Safari 5.0.1 also includes a number of other bug fixes and features enhancements, such as more accurate top hit results in the address field, better stability when using the Safari Reader keyboard shortcut, a fix for an issue that prevent Safari from launching on Leopard systems with network home directories, a fix for a problem where DNS prefetching requests could overtax some routers, and resolution for a problem where VoiceOver would misidentify elements of Web pages.
Additionally, Apple also included a handful of fixes related to specific sites, such as better stability when scrolling through MobileMe Webmail, improved multipage articles from Rolling Stone viewed in Safari Reader, a fix for an issue on 32-bit systems involving Google Wave and certain other Websites using JavaScript encryption, overlapping Flash content on Facebook and Crate and Barrel’s Website, and a problem printing boarding passes from American Airlines’s Website.
Finally, the update also includes a number of security patches, among them a fix for maliciously crafted RSS feeds, a handful of patch’s for maliciously crafted Websites that could allow arbitrary code execution, and a fix for the Auto Fill hack that was disclosed last week.
Safari 5.0.1 requires Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.2, or 10.6.3; and the Windows side, you’ll need Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7.
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