I'm running OSX10.8,.5 mountain lion. Because I don't know if any applications will break, I don't want to upgrade to the latest version of OSX. I was on one site (don't remember which on) that noted that I wasn't using the latest version of safari. Is it possible to upgrade safari without upgrading OSX? Does this make sense?
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Since you're running Mountain Lion, only if your Safari version is older than 6.2.8.
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If you want to stay with 10.8, try Firefox which is still being updated.
Applications Compatibility (2)
El Capitan 10.11 Compatibility information
Do a backup before installing, preferable 2 backups on 2 different drives.
One option is to create a new partition (~30- 50 GB), install the new OS, and ‘test drive’ it. If you like/don’t like it it, you can then remove the partition. Do a backup before you do anything. By doing this, if you don’t like it you won’t have to go though the revert process.
Open Disk Utility, select your hard drive (step 1), then the Partition tab (step 2), and select the partition. Using the /// at the bottom move it up (step 3) until the size box decrease by about 50 GB. Select the newly created space and hit the + button (step 4). Name it something and select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format (step 5). Then hit the Apply button(step 6). Download the installer from the App Store and when it starts, point it at the new partition. You might want to make a copy of the installer outside the Applications folder to avoid having to re-download it in the future. Once installed, go to System Preferences/Startup Disk, select the new partition and reboot. Test away.
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