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Apple Safari for windows is now a more secure and responsible browser. The company has recently fixed a major bug in the application, which was bothering users worldwide. Earlier, Safari was suffering from a big online security flaw. It allowed for software downloads from malicious web sites without flashing any kind of warning on the screen. Apple has seriously apologized for this and recently launched an upgraded security patch, which resolves this problem completely. Now Safari will ask the user before downloading any software application from any web site.

Initially this security flaw threatened the Microsoft Corporation as a majority of Windows XP and Windows Vista users were getting affected, but while preparing the security patch for the application, Apple seemed to place blame on the Microsoft only. According to Apple, the flaw is in the Microsoft’s popular operating system. Apparently Windows doesn’t have a proper procedure to handle the executables and therefore the user downloads anything to his/her desktop even if its malicious without being informed.

The new security patch not only prevents the user from downloading the malicious code into his personal computer, but it also changes the default location of downloaded internet files from the desktop to the Microsoft Windows Vista download folder and Windows XP document folder.

Apple Safari has managed to get its firm grounding in the web-browsing arena. Everything has its pros and cons and Apple Safari is no different. Apple launched Safari with the aim of becoming the No.1 web browser in the world, but this goal is still realistically a ways off.

Apple Safari contained some flaws when it was released. Its beta browser version, which is inherently full of bugs and vulnerabilities, was downloaded in excess of a million times on people’s desktop PCs and laptops. Things didn’t turn out quite as proposed. Safari faced eight security vulnerabilities from the beginning and then released an update patching three critical security flaws in the browser. So that it is recommendable to have Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006 (Win) (EN) on your computer, or another form of security, before using the browser. The second flaw is its graphical user interface. Apple Safari had chunky font rendering and its design did not match with the original background. Safari also lacked customization capabilities. All plug-ins crop up on the screen and there is no proper management. All these reasons expose Apple Safari’s weaknesses, but no browser is without faults, and should Apple successfully patch these mistakes, then it will be unstoppable.