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vangart Author

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Safari 6 & Snow Leopard

Hello,

I have my MBP 13 2011 upgraded to 8GB Ram and 180 SSD, running Snow Leopard. I am a music producer, using laptop as a portable studio (having the same stuff on studio's Mac Pro and my MBP), therefore stability and compatibility with a third party AU plugins ( I use Logic Pro 9) is critical.

I also use MBP to surf the web, make contracts, invoices and for other paper work that need to be done. Heard that a new safari 6 is only available for 10.7 & 10.8, and that the current version of it on SL (5.1.7) has more than 100 holes. I love safari very, very much and cannot get used to hangs of Chrome while opening new pages neither memory leaks of the Firefox. I wonder if there will be some Safari 6 or whatever that will have all the wholes fixed?

Forgot to mention, I need Snow Leopard due Rosetta.

Thanks

Ivan P.

Safari-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 6, 2012 8:48 PM

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mesostinky

Level 1

10 points

Posted on Aug 8, 2012 12:24 PM

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.

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Anic264b

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36 points

Jan 5, 2013 1:11 PM in response to MlchaelLAX

Well, the remaining of my answer, which you haven't quoted, is a solution to run PPC apps concurrently with Lion or Mountain Lion.

Of course, I don't intend to be unhelpful.

Safari 6 & Snow Leopard