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Today Apple released Safari 5.0.1 which offers a patch for the recently discovered address book bug as well as customization via third-party extensions; meaning that Apple is finally catching up with what other browsers have been doing for awhile now.
New in this update:
* Safari Extensions
o Customize Safari with features created by third-party developers
o Find extensions in the Safari Extensions Gallery, accessible from the Safari menu and extensions.apple.comThis update also contains improvements to stability, accessibility and security, including the following:
* More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field
* More accurate timing for CSS animations
* Better stability when using the Safari Reader keyboard shortcut
* Better stability when scrolling through MobileMe Mail
* Fixes display of multipage articles from www.rollingstone.com in Safari Reader
* Fixes an issue that prevented Google Wave and other websites using JavaScript encryption libraries from working correctly on 32-bit systems
* Fixes an issue that prevented Safari from launching on Leopard systems with network home directories
* Fixes an issue that could cause borders on YouTube thumbnails to disappear when hovering over the thumbnail image
* Fixes an issue that could cause Flash content to overlap with other content on www.facebook.com, www.crateandbarrel.com, and other sites when using Flash 10.1
* Fixes an issue that prevented boarding passes from www.aa.com from printing correctly
* Fixes an issue that could cause DNS prefetching requests to overburden certain routers
* Fixes an issue that could cause VoiceOver to misidentify elements of webpagesFor detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
If you want some more info on the Apple extensions, check out this Lifehacker link.
