It would be weird for the company do it mid-stride, but Keizer’s evidence of Apple’s “apparent” change just don’t add up. When I get on a Windows computer I use FireFox. I don’t know if Apple’s dropped support for OS X Snow Leopard. Safari for Windows has not been updated since May 2012 and is today a huge security risk. If you often switch between Windows and Mac. Keizer is referring to the release of Safari 6.1.1 and Safari 7.0.1, which took place in December of last year.Īccording to CVE Details, the issue related to user credentials and autofills weren’t an issue in Safari 5.1, as were none of the other CVE-IDs listed in Apple’s document. How ever you can use the latest Safari browser if you get to install Mac on your PC (actual install or virtually). Although most users now prefer using the Chrome browser, Safari still is a popular browser among Apple device users. On Monday, Apple did not update Safari 5.1 when it patched the later Safari 6 and 7 for newer editions of OS X, including 2011’s Lion, 2012’s Mountain Lion and this year’s Mavericks. In that paragraph, Keizer links to this article, in which he writes:Īpple has apparently decided to kill support for OS X Snow Leopard, the 2009 operating system that has resisted retirement for more than a year. Safari is the best way to experience the internet on all your Apple devices. Snow Leopard was also ignored in December, when Apple patched Safari 6 and 7 for newer editions of OS X, but did not update Safari 5.1.10, the most-current Apple browser for the OS. Keizer fails to mention that Snow Leopard wasn’t affected by Apple’s goto fail bug, but hey, I’m not a security reporter. Apple on Tuesday made it clear that it will no longer patch OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, when it again declined to offer a security update for the four-and-a-half-year-old operating system.Īs Apple issued an update for Mavericks, or OS X 10.9, as well as for its two predecessors, Mountain Lion (10.8) and Lion (10.7), Apple had nothing for Snow Leopard or its owners yesterday.
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