Although the upcoming 10.5.8 Update will address at least some of these issues, many readers have been reporting a wide range of problems and crashes with Safari 4.0 and 4.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.5. Interestingly, despite being incomplete and in need of further debugging itself, OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” has proven considerably better [...]

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Slowly but surely, work continues on the final non-maintenance release of Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” with the seeding of build 9J39 to developers.

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Since the launch of the original iPhone in 2007, users have been demanding various features like copy and paste, MMS, and stereo headphone (A2DP) support for instance. Today apple announced the addition of all those things and more. We will run through some of the major ones to give users an idea of what will [...]

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Recently, Mac OS Rumors was among the first to report on references to an “iPhone 2,1″ in last week’s v2.2.1 iDevice OS firmware release, and suggest that this was almost certainly the forthcoming iPhone Pro. Now, along with emerging suggestions of a corresponding high-end iPod Touch, the grapevine is abuzz with rumors about background tasking, [...]

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Apple released version 2.2.1 of its iPhone/iPod Touch operating system firmware today with many under the hood changes & bug fixes but relatively few “front end” changes — most of them in Mobile Safari. Details follow.

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As Rumors has previously reported, readers who aren’t afraid to use pre-release software can enjoy a remarkable set of features in browsers like WebKit (the heart of Safari), or even entirely as-yet unavailable browser engines like Google’s Chrome which is based on Webcore (Webkit) but extends it with powerful additions including the “V8″ JavaScript interpreter.
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As of the current nightly build (39852), WebKit — the developmental version of Safari, available for public testing — has added the capability to update to the latest build within Webkit.app itself, obviating the need for third party software like NightShift.

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Safari 3.2.1 was released via Software Update overnight, reportedly focusing on bug fixes, but some readers continue to report issues with stability and performance after the update. Stay tuned for an in-depth report on this and ongoing Webkit development shortly.

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Late Tuesday evening, Apple released version 2.0.2, a relatively modest update officially containing only bug fixes but unofficially including a number of non-bugfix tweaks to several major components of the onboard operating system as well as its bundled applications in at least three confirmed instances — Settings, Mail and Safari.

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