Apple Releases Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript Enhancements and Bug Fixes

[MacRumors]

Following last month's developer seed, Apple today released Safari 5.1.4 to the public. The release is available for OS X Lion and Snow Leopard, as well as Windows. Apple highlights the following improvements on OS X Lion:

Safari 5.1.4 for OS X Lion includes changes that:

- Improve JavaScript performance up to 11% over Safari 5.1.3*
- Improve responsiveness when typing into the search field after changing network configurations, or with an intermittent network connection
- Address an issue that could cause webpages to flash white when switching between Safari windows
- Address issues that prevented printing U.S. Postal Service shipping labels and embedded PDFs
- Preserve links in PDFs saved from webpages
- Fix an issue that could make Flash content appear incomplete after using gesture zooming
- Fix an issue that could cause the screen to dim while watching HTML5 video
- Improve stability, compatibility, and startup time when using extensions
- Allow cookies set during regular browsing to be available after using Private Browsing
- Fix an issue that could cause some data to be left behind after pressing the "Remove All Website Data" button

Safari 5.1.4 weighs in at 44.71 MB for Lion users, 47.52 MB for Snow Leopard users, and 36.72 MB for Windows users.

Update: Software Update is offering Safari 5.1.4 for download, but Apple's support pages and the Safari download page have reverted to showing information on Safari 5.1.2

Article Link: Apple Releases Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript Enhancements and Bug Fixes

 

[soco]

Is the fuzzy screen stuck between zoom levels bug still around? I think I missed that.

 

[blacktape242]

thats all well and fine BUT will this update make safari "snappier"?

 

[CapnJackGig]

And it all means nothing until they fix the idiotic amount of memory that this thing eats and eats and eats. I'll stick with Chrome.

 

[kolax]

I've been getting the white page bug a lot - I use 5 tabs and multiple windows sometimes (usually a second Safari window for Facebook when I'm using the chat, and the original Safari window for browsing tabs).

Hopefully less beach balls too - I've had a stuttery beach ball when a website doesn't even have a single Flash element on it.

 

[dingamahoo]

And it all means nothing until they fix the idiotic amount of memory that this thing eats and eats and eats. I'll stick with Chrome.

I find myself irresistibly going back to Chrome because it seems both faster and lighter than Safari. But, annoyingly, I find quite a few sites that don't seem to function on Chrome and which I have to load up on Safari to use.

Anyone else experience this?

 

[trojanvillage]

Feels Snappier™

 

[netnothing]

Is this the first Safari update that DOESN'T require a restart?

-Kevin

 

[blacktape242]

Feels Snappier™

 

[old-school]

Was naively hoping this update would merge the search bar and address bar.

Nope - back to chrome.

 

[ovrlrd]

Allow cookies set during regular browsing to be available after using Private Browsing

How is that a good idea? That kind of defeats the purpose of private browsing.

 

[Menopause]

Still doesn't fix the ugly compression artifacts when swiping forward / backward between webpages

 

[CapnJackGig]

I find myself irresistibly going back to Chrome because it seems both faster and lighter than Safari. But, annoyingly, I find quite a few sites that don't seem to function on Chrome and which I have to load up on Safari to use.

Anyone else experience this?

Which sites don't work on Chrome?

 

[jaydub]

How is that a good idea? That kind of defeats the purpose of private browsing.

It's saying that cookies you set before you began private browsing will be active again when you finish looking at por.... err private browsing.

Sidenote: I wonder if this plugs the hole Google was using.

 

[TylerL]

Was naively hoping this update would merge the search bar and address bar.
Nope - back to chrome.

Not until Safari 5.2.

Or with a plugin now:
http://hackemist.com/SafariOmnibar/

 

[a.gomez]

Apple just needs to kill this thing

 

[Takohashi]

Still doesn't fix the ugly compression artifacts when swiping forward / backward between webpages

What are artifacts?

 

[kolax]

I didn't need to restart after this update; is this something new or has all Safari releases on Lion never required a restart?

I had everything saved and ready for a reboot!

 

[gramirez2012]

Thank god they finally fixed the USPS Shipping label issue - that has been driving me nuts for months.

 

[guzhogi]

Anyone one if this fixes the issue with Infinite Campus websites where after logging in, the grade book doesn't show? The school district I work for has that problem. A lot. Firefox 5.0.1 seems the best with Infinite Campus, but hard to get after upgrading to a later version.

I didn't need to restart after this update; is this something new or has all Safari releases on Lion never required a restart?

I had everything saved and ready for a reboot!

That's new. Usually Safari updates have an update to Webkit which is used by the entire system, hence the restart requirement. Maybe this is a Safari specific update that doesn't affect Webkit?

 

[GenesisST]

Is this the first Safari update that DOESN'T require a restart?

-Kevin

You beat me to it, I was about to comment the same thing

 

[yojo056]

I was a victim of the USPS issue

Darn Postal service charged me six times for a single shipping label. thankfully this is fixed.

 

[charlesdayton]

Safari is in need of a major update. I remember the days when it competed in speed with Opera and Chrome.


Nowadays the competing browsers have evolved so much that Lifehacker does not include Safari anymore in their tests.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

It took several months to address the with page issue.

 

[eric/]

I end up getting all my updates because I see them on the front page of this site.

Thanks.