Apple released the next — and potentially last — upgrade to its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system Wednesday afternoon, bringing minor tweaks before the debut of Snow Leopard in September.

The latest update to Leopard includes security fixes, improves Bluetooth reliability, and upgrades Safari to version 4.0.2. It is available for Mac users via software update, or a 274MB file for download from Apple. The combo update is also available at 759MB.

“The Mac OS X v10.5.8 Update is recommended for Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard users and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac,” reads an Apple statement.

The list of fixes for Leopard are as follows:

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Here’s the Terminal command you can copy and paste in a new Terminal window to get back the previous progress bar right into the latest version of Safari (4 beta) then you’ll know the percentage of the page loaded:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO
killall Safari & open -a Safari

Just wanted to share with my dear readers my favorite Safari plugins, you’ll love even more browsing the internet on the fastest and most beautiful browser ever.

1. Inquisitor, I already made a review on this application a long time ago, the latest update is Safari 4 beta ready.
   
2. Cosmopod, I also made a review on it a long time ago (the actual version is also Safari 4 beta capable)
   
3. Cooliris a multimedia way to navigate the internet, it is just awesome, it worths a try (MacAmour is Cooliris ready)
4. VLC plugins for Safari
5. Some classics of course are highly recommended like Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight

I was curious to see what the full screen would look like on Safari 4 beta + Saft and I didn’t like it (it created a bug on Safari); as a result I had to remove Saft, but it wasn’t as easy as I thought.
Whatever I did, the plugin wouldn’t disappear. After a few searches performed on Google, I found the trick and here it is

1. Open Terminal
2. Login as root user: type “sudo -s” without the quotation marks and enter your password
3. Then, enter: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
4. Go to Force Quit (under the Apple menu)
5. Click on “Finder” and click Relaunch
6. Now go to Spotlight search for “Saft”. It will reveal all of Saft’s hidden files, trash them, then empty the trash.
7. Go back to the Terminal and type “sudo -s” again without quotation marks.
8. Then enter: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE which will set the Finder back to the way it was before.
9. Then type “exit” and it will exit out of the root.

The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages. Using the API you can draw markers and lines, drape images over the terrain, add 3D models, or load KML files, allowing you to build sophisticated 3D map applications. If you have an existing Maps API site, you can 3D-enable your page with as little as one line of code.

Get Google Earth Plug-ins here.

Apple just released this update for Safari through the Mac OS X Software Update. The latest version of Safari provides improved security as well as protection from phishing websites

For those of you wondering how to remove Inquisitor from their system here are the locations of the files to delete (while Safari is closed) to remove it:

Inquisitor.bundle (in Library/InputManagers/Inquisitor/)
Inquisitor folder (in “user=you”/Library/Application Support/)
inquisitor.pkg (in Library/Receipts/)
inquisitorPreflight.pkg (also in Library/Receipts/)
inquisitor folder (in Library/InputManagers/)

Last part of the detailed analysis of Firefox 3.
As I’m typing this post, I’m using Safari 4 developer preview, this post isn’t 100% neutral because my favorite browser ever is Safari….

If you take a look at the resources used by both browsers, you’ll notice Firefox 3 needs more CPU than Safari, which is not a good point for the latest version of Mozilla’s Firefox.
Popup Ad blocking is a feature that we don’t need to talk about anymore: it became a “normal” feature.
The new Google smart search bar isn’t better than Safari + the Inquisitor Add on (released more than a year ago).
As I said previously, Safari’s displays pages in a much better quality than Firefox 3.

Performances? I’m expecting to see very soon a benchmarking made by professionals to see which of the web browsers is faster, but honestly, when you have a very fast internet connection, it comes a point when you won’t feel any difference between two browsers.

The only good point for Firefox seems to be the ability for users to install Add ons (that will surely use more bandwidth and make the browser consume more system resources).
Safari 4 adds the ability to save pages as web applications, a feature that do not exist for the moment on Firefox 3.

My very own Conclusion: I’ll stick to Safari of course (expecting a lot from Safari 4); and I’ll wait for Camino 2.0 to install as a secondary browser.