Apple released OS X Lion 10.7.2 earlier today, and included an updated version of Safari (5.1.1) as part of the update. According to a support document from Apple, this new version of Safari brings up to a 13% increase in JavaScript performance.
Aside from the increased JavaScript performance, Safari 5.1.1 also includes support for iCloud’s Safari Reading List feature, which allows you to add articles and websites to a list on your iOS device, and then read them later using Safari for Mac.
As usual, the Safari 5.1.1 update also contains a number of bug fixes, improvements, and optimizations to make it more stable, usable, compatible and secure. The full change log is as follows:
- Improve JavaScript performance up to 13% over Safari 5.1*
- Address issues that could cause hangs and excessive memory usage
- Improve stability when using Find, dragging tabs, and managing extensions
- Improve stability for netflix.com and other websites that use the Silverlight plug-in
- Add a Show Downloads item to the View menu
- Improve the consistency of the pinch to zoom gesture
- Address issues in full screen that affected search suggestions, URL updating, window sizing, and the title bar
- Address an issue that could prevent East Asian character input into webpages with Flash content
- Address an issue that could cause Safari to open links in windows instead of tabs
- Improve PDF handling
- Address an issue that could affect cookie and data deletion
- Address an issue that could cause History items to appear incorrectly
- Correct the text in application download alerts
- Improve compatibility with webpages with Flash video embedded from vimeo.com and other websites
- Improve printing from Safari
- Address an issue that could prevent the Google Safe Browsing Service from updating