Safari 6 & Snow Leopard

I'm sorry to say that Snow Leopard is Dead and will not be getting Safari 6 or the 121 security updates it provides. In fact it will no longer be getting security updates period so realistically it is no longer very safe to use Snow Leopard machines to access the internet. Which is odd considering that SL has the most Mac market share right now....

Regardless of browser loyalty you 100% need to stop using Safari to browse the web and switch to something like Chrome etc which will continue to receive security updates to prevent problems on your mac. Re: memory leaks Ive really not found that to be an issue with Firefox espeically vs Safari which traditionally has been the one eating up GBs of ram. But to each their own I guess. It's not 2005 anymore where you didnt have to worry about the possibilty of your Mac getting rooted by surfing the internet so you need to stop using Safari asap.

As for sticking with Snow Leopard since you need Rosetta, you'll just have to live with the security risk and disable or not use the things that Apple stops updating. They did shockingly update Leopard after that one security flaw but don't expect them to repeat that for anything on Snow Leopard. Their policy is to support current + last OS for seucurity updates so at this point Snow Leopard is SOL. If it makes you feel any better I'm in the same boat as you and would rather not move off Snow Leopard. At least you can move to Mountain Lion if you update you application(s). My late 2007 Macbook isn't even supported for Mountain Lion but that's a whole other can of worms.