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Apple Releases New Safari 14.1 Update for macOS Catalina and Mojave With Security Fix
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FF is more stable, no headache, no unwanted surprises
Because is only downloading Safari updates
Thanks again @tywebb13 <3
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Some of you may find this of interest. I like this guy's take on things generally.
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Summary of important security fixes in macOS
A lot has changed in recent versions of macOS over the last couple of weeks. This is a summary of what’s happened, and the updates available for Macs running Mojave, Catalina and Big Sur. Moj…
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It is so sad that the world's best adblock ublock origin is unsupported on Safari gmy favorite browser)
Problem with Chrome or Firefox: Update takes about 2 minutes, no restart necessary.
Problem with Safari: Update takes about 30 minutes up to an hour. The device is not available during update.
Apple, I want to use your products, I don't want to have a gigantic update every couple of days, because there is again a serious issue, you overlooked.
Problem with Safari: Update takes about 30 minutes up to an hour. The device is not available during update.
Apple, I want to use your products, I don't want to have a gigantic update every couple of days, because there is again a serious issue, you overlooked.
Safari is just a two minute update. It’s the OS security update that takes about 30 minutes.
Apple ruined the extension support when they made the changes in version 12.0. If I can’t use U-Block I won’t use Safari. It already has issue with enough websites that it’s hard to make it your default.Thank you, Apple! I appreciate all the security updates.
I am stubborn and will not switch to Chrome or Firefox. Though, I do wish Safari worked on more websites.
Firefox with U-Block and the Duck privacy extensions and Duck as the default search engine is my choice. I NEVER see ads. And all of my web pages work and no Chrome either.
Firefox with U block and Duck extensions. I personally use this setup with Duck search as the default.
Big Sur introduced the Sealed System Volume. While there is much good to this, it also means that anything that lives in the system volume requires an OS patch, which is a large "minimum" download. In this case, unlike Catalina and Mojave, that includes what might simply be a fix to WebKit.
Thanks. I usually check Apple's macOS Downloads page for updates, but often it is days (and sometimes a week or more!) after the updates are released via Software Update before they show up on the Downloads page.
And, as we know, Safari updates don't appear on the Downloads page.
It would be nice to know how links to the downloads are obtained. Maybe there's a way to do this via Software Update. Or is this information only available to developers?
In case anyone else is still waiting for their update to show, mine didn’t show up until today when I restarted my Mac. So try that. It’s an important security update so best to do it ASAP.
I installed Safari 14.1 (14611.1.21.161.7) update on Mojave about two hours ago. It seems to work. It doesn't fix the problem with Leaflet, visible in OpenStreetMap, where Safari seems to work differently from other browsers: the left mouse button does not activate some of the buttons at the right edge of the window. OSM discussion.
It works only with macOS 10.15+, so not with Mojave. I'll stick with Ad and Stuff Blocker, which seems to do a good job with ads, including in videos.Here is a link for the DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials extension:
DuckDuckGo Privacy for Safari
Tired of being tracked online? We can help. DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials comes packed with best-in-class privacy essentials and makes browsing Safari even faster. Block Tracking Cookies — prevent most 3rd-party cookies from tracking you as you browse from site to site. Escape Website...apps.apple.com
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First release of Safari 14.1 wouldn't load many mainstream websites. Apple's suggestion - erase computer. After research, discovered it was having difficulty loading javascript - disabled loading javascript and problem went away. Newly released 14.1 doesn't have the problem.
Not just on M1, so many times it freezes here (MBP 13" 2019 with Mojave), then I load the very same URL on Firefox and no issues. Embarassing to say the least, let's say pathetic. Thanks Apple.