Safari 3.2

Paypal had threatened several times to prevent Safari users from accessing their sites because the browser didn’t have anti-phishing measures to prevent morons from clicking a link in a fraudulous e-mail and not realizing they didn’t end up on the real paypal.com; you can now imagine that the reason they relented on the boycott side was that Apple was able to promise them that such functionality was coming in the following months. Actually, they probably reiterated the threat rather recently just because they figured the change wasn’t coming fast enough.

The new Safari is available in Software Update, and I haven’t tried it out yet because I’d have to reboot. (And, if I sound dismissive of Paypal, I have to admit they weren’t completely wrong, and something needed to be done against phishing, because whatever you do users won’t suddenly bother to be more intelligent. It’s just that I’m biased against Paypal, even though — or all the more as — I have to use them.)