Safari 3.0.2 beta released: Resolves Mail.app, iChat slowness, other fixes

[Published Friday, June 22nd]

Apple has released Safari 3.0.2 beta for Mac OS X, which provides the following bug fixes/enhancements:

• Includes the latest security updates for Safari.
• Safari might unexpectedly quit when parental control features are enabled for an account (fixed).
• Safari might unexpectedly quit when sending a news headline as an email from Google Reader (fixed).
• There may be missing quoted text when replying to an email message containing HTML (fixed).
• Spaces might not appear when when typed at the beginning of a line, when replying to an email message containing HTML (fixed).
• Improves stability of Mail (fixed).
• An issue in which incoming iChat messages could be delayed (fixed).
• Improves compatibility with Dashboard widgets that make use of plug-ins.
• Improves compatibility with Dashboard widgets that have a search field.
• Addresses an issue in which BBEdit might unexpectedly quit while dragging text outside of an HTML preview window.

Many of these issues are noted in our previous Safari 3.0 coverage.

The new release is available as a 14MB download from http://www.apple.com/safari/download/.

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