Safari 6 & Snow Leopard

Hello,
I have my MBP 13 2011 upgraded to 8GB Ram and 180 SSD, running Snow Leopard. I am a music producer, using laptop as a portable studio (having the same stuff on studio's Mac Pro and my MBP), therefore stability and compatibility with a third party AU plugins ( I use Logic Pro 9) is critical.
I also use MBP to surf the web, make contracts, invoices and for other paper work that need to be done. Heard that a new safari 6 is only available for 10.7 & 10.8, and that the current version of it on SL (5.1.7) has more than 100 holes. I love safari very, very much and cannot get used to hangs of Chrome while opening new pages neither memory leaks of the Firefox. I wonder if there will be some Safari 6 or whatever that will have all the wholes fixed?
Forgot to mention, I need Snow Leopard due Rosetta.
Thanks
Ivan P.

mesostinky wrote:
I am curious if any of these flaws apply to Snow Leopard but were only patched on 10.7 etc. I see several are for Lion and not Snow Leopard. It could be wrong about that though and will have to go through all the CVE's that are for 10.7 10.8 but not for 10.6
Feel free to post the results of your comparisons...
mesostinky wrote:
Btw it is extremely odd considering Apple's whole unwritten "only support 2 OS's" policy that this update even happened. Sometimes their wall of silence is very much to their determent as users and corporations aren't sure what Apple is planning. The whole updates policy is very much case in point.
I guess that Apple's "unwritten" policy is "not worth the paper its written on!" (with apologies to Samuel Goldwyn!)
mesostinky wrote:
I still 100% stand by my statement that using Snow Leopard and especially Safari 5 on Snow Leopard is a terrible idea at this point from a security standpoint.
Except that your statement was:
I'm sorry to say that Snow Leopard is Dead and will not be getting Safari 6 or the 121 security updates it provides. In fact it will no longer be getting security updates period so realistically it is no longer very safe to use Snow Leopard machines to access the internet. Which is odd considering that SL has the most Mac market share right now....
and Apple's already proven half of it wrong!

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