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Apple Releases Safari 5.1.2 with 'White Flash' and PDF Viewing Fixes

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Apple today released Safari 5.1.2, bringing several bug fixes and other enhancements. Most notably, it addresses issues with PDF viewing and pages "flashing white".
This update contains various improvements, including fixes that:

- Improve stability
- Address issues that could cause hangs and excessive memory usage
- Address issues that could cause webpages to flash white
- Allow PDFs to be displayed within web content
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Apple seeded a version of Safari 5.1.2 to developers for testing earlier this month.

Article Link: Apple Releases Safari 5.1.2 with 'White Flash' and PDF Viewing Fixes
 
Article Link
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/29/apple-releases-safari-5-1-2-with-white-flash-and-pdf-viewing-fixes/
It requires a restart! Bummer. There goes 47 days and 11 hours of uptime on my iMac! Maybe I'll wait for a while longer since I don't have any of the issues in this fix.
 
SandboxGeneral said:
It requires a restart! Bummer. There goes 47 days and 11 hours of uptime on my iMac! Maybe I'll wait for a while longer since I don't have any of the issues in this fix.
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Lol why do you care, are you trying to beat a record or something?
 
Kill the first person to ask if it's snappier.

In other news, it'd be nice if the "Address issues that could cause hangs and excessive memory usage" reduces the memory footprint significantly. It has skyrocketed in version 5.
 
Cougarcat said:
...but does it fix the annoying random Tab reloads?
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I hope so. The flashing white is annoying, but even more annoying is typing a bunch of stuff in a text field and then having all my safari windows reload and lose everything I was writing. Apple really screwed up with the last update and I'm surprised it got beyond development and out into the public. Hopefully this new update will fix all that.
 
Skika said:
Lol why do you care, are you trying to beat a record or something?
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Ha! No, not that it matters, but I did go over 60 days once on my old MBP without a restart. I guess I like the feeling that I know OS X doesn't need to be restarted every so often as compared to my Win7 PC at the office.

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White flash
Black flash!

Sometimes when I alt-tab between apps and come back to Safari 5 the page is all black, lol. I have to move the page a bit to undo it.

What's even worse, multi threaded tabs, so when you hit a memory it refreshes everything. Yeah, that's great .. when you're NOT a web developer or designer and you have data loss because submitted data, form analytics, etc is all gone missing.

white flash fix, LOL, whatever. </rant>

I am glad they're upgrading of course, especially when it comes to security and stability, but c'mon now. Focus on in your face issues that could be considered showstoppers. Anyway, that's my opinion.
 
adcx64 said:
not showing up in the updater. ill try later. maybe because im on a powerpc mac?
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Safari 5.0 is the last version to be available for PPC Macs/Leopard (so currently your version should be 5.0.6). Safari 5.1 and later is Intel/10.6 and later only.
 
This update appears to have fixed the issue where entering ordered/unordered lists on certain message boards (this one for example) would cause the page to turn white after entering the first item.
 
SandboxGeneral said:
It requires a restart! Bummer. There goes 47 days and 11 hours of uptime on my iMac! Maybe I'll wait for a while longer since I don't have any of the issues in this fix.
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I can hold my breath longer that my Air takes to reboot :p Thank you, SSD!
 
SandboxGeneral said:
Ha! No, not that it matters, but I did go over 60 days once on my old MBP without a restart. I guess I like the feeling that I know OS X doesn't need to be restarted every so often as compared to my Win7 PC at the office.

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Was the 60 days without having to restart Safari or without having to restart your Mac?

oiuh151 said:
Safari 5.0 is the last version to be available for PPC Macs (so currently your version should be 5.0.6). Safari 5.1 and later is Intel only.
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1. Error when attempting to use the link in the article -
We're sorry.

We can't find the article you're looking for.

Please return to the Apple Support homepage.
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2. My Intel Mac has Safari 5.0.6 installed, and it hangs / stops 'unexpectedly' due to flash content? Restarting my Mac is the only real solution to prevent hanging in a short time.

Software Update has not told me that a newer version is available.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)

doctor-don said:
SandboxGeneral said:
Ha! No, not that it matters, but I did go over 60 days once on my old MBP without a restart. I guess I like the feeling that I know OS X doesn't need to be restarted every so often as compared to my Win7 PC at the office.

Image
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Was the 60 days without having to restart Safari or without having to restart your Mac?

oiuh151 said:
Safari 5.0 is the last version to be available for PPC Macs (so currently your version should be 5.0.6). Safari 5.1 and later is Intel only.
Click to expand...

1. Error when attempting to use the link in the article -
We're sorry.

We can't find the article you're looking for.

Please return to the Apple Support homepage.
Click to expand...
2. My Intel Mac has Safari 5.0.6 installed, and it hangs / stops 'unexpectedly' due to flash content? Restarting my Mac is the only real solution to prevent hanging in a short time.

Software Update has not told me that a newer version is available.
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Safari 5.0 is the last version for Leopard in general.
 
Skika said:
Lol why do you care, are you trying to beat a record or something?
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I remember people used to watch their uptime and try to set new records back when 47 days was an incredible achievement. I think it mostly went away shortly after Windows XP arrived (let alone OS X 10.3-ish).
 
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