Re: Cannot update Safari on OS Snow Leopard 10.6.8
So what do I do when websites inform me that Safari 5.1.10 is no longer supported, while I am strongly opposed to surrendering OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard on my MacBook Pro? The Snow Leopard OS is by far the best operating system ever made! And the Lion operating system on my iMac has been a disaster that has cost me $$$$ in downtime. I NEED Snow Leopard for important work I cannot accomplish with Lion. Furthermore, all the reviews I've read about Mavericks and Yosemite suggest those systems are also loaded with problems.
David Henderson7 wrote:
Thanks, QuickTimeKirk and Eric, for your comments. However...
I have Firefox and I hate it, because it's ALWAYS being updated. I spend too many work-related hours on the Internet, and the disruption caused by updates is a nuisance, especially when most of those updates have no major effect on performance or utility. Safari seems to be built from the inside out to work smoothly within the OS with little or no further attention.
Apple is the world's richest company at over $700 billion, about double Exxon Mobile, the #2 corporation. Couldn't Apple manage to issue a Safari update for Snow Leopard? Either that, or rid the newer operating systems of all their bugs. What's the hangup?
What bugs? Why would Apple spend money supporting a six year old system that has not been issued an update for four years? And why not support every other old OS X before? Because the hardware is growing to old to run the new releases of Safari etc. If the latest version you can update to is not satisfactory and you refuse to use an updatable third party browser, or update to a modern OS X (I am not sure what 'bugs' you are referring to, you failed to mention) then you are locking yourself into some tiny little corner with a couple of friends where Apple would never bother looking or, for that matter, spend millions supporting.
If you make your choices and they are not realistic or possible, then you should consider changing your habits as millions upon millions of others had done.
Good Luck
Pete
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