Apple Seeds Safari 5.1.2 with PDF Viewing Fixes to Developers

[MacRumors]

Apple yesterday pushed out a pre-release version of Safari 5.1.2 to Mac developers. The update addresses several issues related to the viewing of PDFs located within frames on websites while also asking developers to test plug-in interaction and printing. From the seed notes:

Inline PDF Support

Safari 5.1.2 fixes issues where PDFs in frames were not displayed in the browser. Please test this build with websites that display PDF documents inline such as banks and document management systems. Please also test saving and using context menus with PDFs in frames.

Plug-Ins

Please test mouse and keyboard interaction in plug-ins with input fields.

Printing

Please test printing web pages. Printing web pages to PDF is sufficient.

Apple documents one known issue which could cause Safari to crash using certain Safari Extensions.

Safari 5.1.2 is available to developers in versions for OS X Lion, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and Windows.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Safari 5.1.2 with PDF Viewing Fixes to Developers

 

[RoelJuun]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)

Yeah fix the PDF, got a little annoyed. Great that they fix it.

 

[lukejr]

Just tried it out on Windows. Still has the same Back button bug that exists since last two versions for Windows. Really needs to be fixed.

In Windows, if you press the back button in any webpage, Safari closes all tabs, including the current one being used.

See thread at Apple Discussions:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15840746#15840746

 

[commander.data]

Has Apple always provided beta releases of bug fix updates to developers? They do it with major updates, like 4.0 and 5.0, and minor updates 4.1 and 5.1, but I don't remember hearing about betas of bug fixes previous to 5.1.1, which seemed to be one of the first with this practice. Is it just that it was usually reported on previously or is this a new policy by Tim Cook?

 

[iDuel]

It's good to know that Apple is further improving Safari.

 

[Gemütlichkeit]

I wish they'd just add more options for the end user. Like combining the search box with the address bar like Chrome.

and click to drag with the mouse.

iOS 5 copies off of a lot of user made functions. why can't they bring that tactic to safari

 

[iDuel]

I wish they'd just add more options for the end user. Like combining the search box with the address bar like Chrome.

I was never a fan of that, which is why I never used Chrome exclusively.

 

[ToM7]

whats going on with safari 6?...

 

[STEALTH714]

5.1.2

Just downloaded