Download Apple Safari 5.0.1

Apple has released an update to version 5.0 of its Safari web browser. The browser is available for Mac OS X and Windows XP, Vista and 7. Safari has everything you would expect from a modern browser, such as tabs, an RSS reader and a pop-up blocker. Plug-ins such as Flash, Java and Windows Media Player can be accessed via this page are brought in. New in version 5.0 is Safari Reader, with which web pages can be read without busy banners and columns. Furthermore, the performance has been improved, the support for HTML 5 has been further expanded and the address bar has become smarter. In version 5.0.1 the possibility has also been added to extend the functionality by means of extensions.

New in this update:

• Customize Safari with features created by third-party developers Find extensions in the Safari Extensions Gallery, accessible from the Safari menu and this page.

This update also contains the following improvements:

• 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.comand 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.