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Apple releases Safari 5.0.1 update

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Amidst yesterday’s updates and product releases, Apple released Safari 5.0.1, the newest version of its web browser. The new version, available here (or via Mac OS X’s Software Update feature), sports the following fixes and changes:

– 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.com, and 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.

Safari 5.0.1 requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 (under Mac OS X 10.5) or Mac OS X 10.6.2 (under Mac OS X 10.6) or later to install and run and is available for free.