{"id":40755,"date":"2009-11-12T10:03:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/?p=35640"},"modified":"2009-11-12T10:03:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:03:12","slug":"safari-4-0-4-update-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40755","title":{"rendered":"Safari 4.0.4 Update Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29290\" title=\"Safari\" src=\"http:\/\/gigapple.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/safari.png?w=128&#038;h=128\" alt=\"Safari\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/download\/\">Safari version 4.0.4<\/a> is now available, the 30MB update promising improvements to &#8220;performance, stability, and security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regarding security, the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT3949\">update<\/a> addresses several potential &#8220;maliciously crafted&#8221; attacks&#8211;are there such things as benevolently crafted attacks? One uses a color profile, which is inventive, if evil. Others use XML, shortcut menus, or the user&#8217;s desire to visit web pages or FTP sites of questionable virtue. <span id=\"more-35640\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, as the Mac gains greater popularity, the mantra of &#8220;security through obscurity&#8221; becomes less and less reassuring. This is one area where Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer may end up having an actual advantage over OS X and Safari, Windows having been forced to exist in a state of siege for so long.<\/p>\n<p>As for improvements to stability and performance, it&#8217;s not just the usual boilerplate text included with the update this time. Besides supposed stability improvements for third-party plug-ins, the search field, and Yahoo! Mail, Safari 4.0.4\u00a0 has &#8220;improved full history search performance for users with a large number of history items.&#8221; I&#8217;m one of those users, and I would cringe when going to &#8220;Show All History&#8221; and using the realtime search box. The first few letters would stall Safari every time, not so much now.<\/p>\n<p>Safari 4.0.4 also improves JavaScript performance. Running the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.webkit.org\/perf\/sunspider-0.9\/sunspider.html\">SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark<\/a>, Safari 4.0.4 is 1.08 times as fast version 4.0.3 overall, with &#8220;significant&#8221; increases in many tests.<\/p>\n<p>Finally and most importantly, Safari 4.0.4 does not break ClickToFlash. 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