At 5:36 PM -0800 1/12/2011, Tom wrote:
All of which makes me wonder whether Leopard 10.5.8 really cares which
version of Safari it runs, since version 3, 4, or 5, all seem to run
fine with it. Or are the earlier versions a lit fuse and a ticking
time bomb?
The base OS X installation included the frameworks and Safari 3's app.
When you update Safari, it will update those frameworks and give you
the new Safari app.
You *should* keep Safari up to date, just like every other browser.
There are a lot of security vulnerabilities that were fixed in those
frameworks, not only in WebKit but also in the ssl (https) stuff.
However, being the daring, devil-may-care sort of fellow I am, the
next thing I did was to run Software Update and bring Safari up to
v.5
Good. So it's working ok now?
Don't forget to update Flash too. You downgraded it when you did the
whole-system reinstall.
- Dan.
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