Safari 4.0.5
People familiar with the seedings say one of the primary focuses of Safari 4.0.5 is to fix a regression in the browser's JavaScript engine that manifested with the release of Safari 4.0.4. The maintenance release will also reportedly see certain code blocks, like Move Code, transitioned from the Safari codebase to that of Webkit in order to improve cross platform support.
A short list of other enhancements planned for the Safari 4.0.5 include improved HTML5 Video Playback, quicker loading of the Top Sites panels, faster JavaScript performance, better performance loading YouTube, and an overall reduced memory footprint.
Additionally, the release should also sport a much improved Plug-in manager aimed at reducing the number of crashes caused by plug-ins, including Adobe Flash plug-in, people familiar with the current betas say. These advances will reportedly also improve load times for plug-ins.
Safari 4.0.5 is currently undergoing tests in four distinct distributions: a build for Windows, one for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, one for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and another for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Each are members of the 405Axx build train and weigh between 26 and 38 megabytes.
QuickTime 7.66
Meanwhile, Apple is also evaluating a maintenance, security and performance release for QuickTime 7 labeled QuickTime 7.66. It's expected to be one of the final updates to QuickTime 7 and is currently undergoing evaluation for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows. The current build is said to be build 23.
Pro Applications Update
Finally, the Mac maker is also wrapping up QA testing on a significant maintenance release to its Final Cut Studio and Pro applications labeled "Pro Applications Update." Those familiar with this release, code named "Iron Man," say it was originally scheduled to go live last week but has been pushed back a week or so for further evaluation.
AppleInsider correspondent Kyla helped contribute to this report.
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As a matter of interest, why are they still developing QT7? Wouldn't those resources be better deployed on QT X?
... A short list of other enhancements planned for the Safari 4.0.5 include ... a much improved Plug-in manager aimed at reducing the number of crashes caused by plug-ins, including Adobe Flash plug-in, people familiar with the current betas say. T...
I know this is probably just "developer speak" but you make it sound like Safari actually supports user plug-ins and has some kind of end user "management tool" for that purpose.
Safari has no such tool and doesn't officially support plug-ins like FireFox and the others do AFAIK.
Steve Jobs hates customisation dontcha know.
Cool. Besides improved security and performance I hope they implement separate processes for each tab.
I used the latest Google Chrome for several days. The opening and closing of the app as well the speed of the app itself was great. The only reason I moved back to Safari was for the much better history, including visual history. Other than that, I was sold.
As a matter of interest, why are they still developing QT7? Wouldn't those resources be better deployed on QT X?
That s coming along with Snow Leopard. QTX is very important to Apple it's part of iPhone OS and Macs. QuickTime 7 is still used on Windows. If they are updating QT7 for Mac it's not the major focus or attention that QTX will be getting, just some security and stability changes. I doubt there will be any noticable performance on QT7 on the Mac side.
As a matter of interest, why are they still developing QT7? Wouldn't those resources be better deployed on QT X?
Just because a new version is released doesn't mean that the support for older versions drop, especially in this case where QT X is not a real replacement, but rather a new start, sort of.
I know this is probably just "developer speak" but you make it sound like Safari actually supports user plug-ins and has some kind of end user "management tool" for that purpose.
Safari has no such tool and doesn't officially support plug-ins like FireFox and the others do AFAIK.
Steve Jobs hates customisation dontcha know.
What are you talking about? I have written plugins for Safari. I have two third party plugins (1 Password and Click to Flash) that I have installed separately running in Safari. There is no management tool. You just put (or delete) the plugins in the "Internet Plugins" folder on your hard drive. There is lots of developer documentation on writing plugins at www.apple.com/developer and they are trivial to write.
You may also want to check out this Safari Plugin site:
http://pimpmysafari.com/