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Apple Releases Safari 5.0.3

A few minutes ago Apple released an update to Safari, which reaches version 5.0.3. It’s available now in Software Update, or via direct download on Apple’s website.

Apple also released Safari 4.1.3 for Tiger users. Safari 5.0.3 comes with a variety of fixes and overall performance improvements. Specifically, the update addresses issues with search and text input fields on Netflix and Facebook, improves stability of Javascript-intensive extensions and introduces more reliable pop-up blocking.

Check out the full changelog below.

This update contains improvements to usability, compatibility, stability, accessibility and security, including the following:

- More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field
- More accurate results in Top Sites
- Fixes an issue that could cause content delivered with the Flash 10.1 plug-in to overlap webpage content
- More reliable pop-up blocking
- Improved stability when typing into search and text input fields on www.netflix.com and www.facebook.com
- Improved stability when using JavaScript-intensive extensions
- Improved stability when using VoiceOver with Safari

For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

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