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As a matter of fact, I wrote Wikipedia’s article on Cobalt and spoke many times with the owner of the company while writing the article. I have the latest version of Ashlar Cobalt running natively in Snow Leopard, which can supposedly open Vellum files. It would be nice, Tessellator, if you knew what in the world you were talking about before banging on the keyboard and revealing to the world that you have fingers and no brain.

Because Apple made Mavericks a free upgrade from Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion, Apple could rationalize the dropping of support for the latter two.” “It’s certainly possible that Apple has already pulled the plug on Lion and Mountain Lion, what with the two-month stretch without a sign of fixes for the bugs patched in Mavericks. company declined to update either of those operating systems in October, when it released Mavericks with patches for more than 50 security vulnerabilities,” Keizer reports. “Apple’s support for even newer editions of OS X, including 2011’s Lion and last year’s Mountain Lion, has also come into question: In a very unusual move, the Cupertino, Calif. company calls its quits for the browser, it’s already decided to retire the pertinent OS.”

“Historically, Apple has patched Safari longer than the supporting operating system, so when the Cupertino, Calif. Safari 5.1, which was last updated in September to version 5.1.10, is the most-current Apple browser for Snow Leopard,” Keizer reports. “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. Its core components like WebKit, so it is unknown what features wereĬhanged.“Apple has apparently decided to kill support for OS X Snow Leopard, the 2009 operating system that has resisted retirement for more than a year,” Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld. Security updates, Apple makes no specific mention of Safari or some of Patched in Safari 6 for Lion and Mountain Lion. Leaving users with a number of vulnerabilities that have since been

Since then there had been no updates for Safari 5 however, if you are using Snow Leopard and have installed the latest update you will see Safari is now at version 5.1.8.Īs noted by Josh Long on Intego's Mac Security Blog, Apple hadĪpparently stopped issuing new versions of Safari for Snow Leopard, The last official release of Safari for Snow Leopard was version 5.1.7, which addressed several bugs in the WebKit framework that could allow maliciously crafted Web sites to execute code locally on a system. In the latest set of security updates for OS X, Apple has included a new version of Safari for users still running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.