This evening Apple launched Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 for its users, together with the new version of the operating system, it also launched Safari 5.1.1. This new version of Safari brings some news related to the functionality of the browser, but the main changes have taken place in terms of the performance of the application. It seems that Safari 5.1.1 is now 13% faster than previous versions and this should be very easily noticeable while browsing the web. Here's everything new in Safari 5.1.1:
Safari 5.1.1 includes support for iCloud, a breakthrough set of free cloud services. iCloud stores your Safari bookmarks and Safari Reading List and automatically pushes them to all your devices. Safari 5.1.1 also contains various fixes and improvements to performance, stability, usability, compatibility, accessibility and security, including fixes that:
- Improve JavaScript performance up to 13% over Safari 5.1*
- Address issues that could cause hangs and excessive memory usage
- Improve stability when using Find, dragging tabs, and managing extensions
- Improve stability for netflix.com and other websites that use the Silverlight plug-in
- Add a Show Downloads item to the View menu
- Improve the consistency of the pinch to zoom gesture
- Address issues in full screen that affected search suggestions, URL updating, window sizing, and the title bar
- Address an issue that could prevent East Asian character input into webpages with Flash content
- Address an issue that could cause Safari to open links in windows instead of tabs
- Improve PDF handling
- Address an issue that could affect cookies and data deletion
- Address an issue that could cause History items to appear incorrectly
- Correct the text in application download alerts
- Improve compatibility with webpages with Flash video embedded from vimeo.com and other websites
- Improve printing from Safari
- Address an issue that could prevent the Google Safe Browsing Service from updating
You can install the new version of Safari using Software Update.
