Download Apple Safari 3.0.2 beta

Apple is developing version 3 of its Safari web browser. This program is no longer available exclusively for Mac OS X, but now also works under Windows XP and Windows Vista. Yesterday version 3.0.2 was released and the Windows version includes many stability improvements and fixes incorrect display of text in non-English Windows installations. There are also some security issues dissolved. In the Mac OS X version some issues with other applications have been fixed. Below is the changelog for both versions:

Security

• Includes the latest security updates for Safari.

Non-English versions of Microsoft Windows

• Safari unexpectedly quitting if interacting with bookmarks on non-English configurations of Windows.
• Safari unexpectedly quitting when typing in text fields on non-English configurations of Windows.
• An issue in which bold and italic text could be missing in Web pages on non-English configurations of Windows.

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• Safari unexpectedly quitting if the Windows user account name contains non-ASCII character.
• An issue in which all text is missing if the Windows system has a large number of fonts installed.
• All text may be missing when Safari is installed in a location other than the default location.
• Slow startup time when installed fonts have an improper creation time (a future date).
• An issue in which a font other than Arial could be used instead of Arial on certain Web pages.

Authentication

• Safari unexpectedly quitting after prompting for a username and password for HTTP authentication.
• Safari unexpectedly quitting when handling the unsupported NTLM authentication method.

RSS

• Safari unexpectedly quitting with certain invalid RSS feed URLs.
• Safari unexpectedly not responding (“stalling”) due to contention with the thread that updates RSS feeds.

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and Yahoo Widgets

• Inability to install Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Web applications and Yahoo Widgets.

Google Reader

• Safari unexpectedly quitting when sending a news headline as an email from Google Reader.

Other

• Safari unexpectedly quitting on systems with earlier microprocessors that don’t support the SSE instruction set.
• Safari unexpectedly quitting with certain video cards.
• Safari unexpectedly quitting when a web server produces an empty Content-type header.

Safari beta 3.0.2 for Mac OS X addresses the following issues:

• Includes the latest security updates for Safari.
• Safari might unexpectedly quit when parental control features are enabled for an account.
• Safari might unexpectedly quit when sending a news headline as an email from Google Reader.

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