ThinkSecret reports that a new beta release of Apple’s Safari web browser, version 67, with improvements to tabbed browsing and AutoFill for completing web forms was released to beta testers. Also, a new beta build of the MacOSX v10.2.5 update, 6L14, was seeded to developers last week. According to Apple, the update includes improvements to AirPort, Bluetooth, Classic, FireWire, graphics, Image Capture, Mail, and OpenGL, as well as AFP, web services, dial-up PPP connections, Windows file services, audio disc recording, and printing.
Safari Beta v67, New OS X 10.2.5 Beta Seeded to Developers
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And the seeding to developers has been apparently *killed*. Good thing all these seed leaks were being reported by all the tech news sites.
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Well, news sites need news, and these news are news. If Apple wants silence, they do what they did: kill their beta program. Or use trusted beta testers, old timers.
Anyway, I don’t see it being a big issue for Apple because Safari is already kinda an “open” product and even David Hyatt talks on his Safari weblog about it, while it is well known that Apple employees are not allowed to talk about what they are working on, neither allowed to reply to online forums with an Apple.com IP address. In other words, Apple killed the beta and it didn’t made much of a difference for them, as bug reports are coming all the way from the open beta testers via the integrated bug report tool. It was a no-pain situation for Apple to kill the beta program. So they did it.
Aren’t all ‘public’ beta programmes leaked? Seems so from what I read about MS’s ones. So, it can hardly be a great surprise for Apple, I would have thought.
Autofill and tabbed browsing are great conveniences. i just hope Safari doesn’t get to “big” (bloated, slow). It is so fast now!