Mac OS X 10.5.3 To Fix Over 200 Bugs, Coming Soon

An anonymous reader writes "MacScoop reports that 'Apple has seeded several builds of its Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 update to developers during the past few weeks and just seeded yet another one numbered "9D34" earlier today.' The update fixes over two hundred bugs, weighs almost half a gigabyte and should be available soon."

Re:Fixes

[oahazmatt]

Interesting. The Safari bookmark/.Mac Mail account bug is so important they fixed it twice.

Re:Service pack 3?

[sdpuppy]

Ha! Back in my day we "time machined " using tar -u -g -v -f $backup_disk/$backup_dir/$backup_name up hill both ways in 10 feet of snow and we liked it! - heck our time machine had shiny knobs and dials with detailed oak scroll work not like this cheap plastic injection molded junk and and...

hey kids, get your durn iPods off my lawn!

Airport Scanning?

[Tangent128]

You mean a software update that masks nail clippers?

Critical bug

[AlpineR]

Thank Jobs, they fixed this:

Text-to-Speech and Hysterical voice no longer causes hang

Now my business can finally make the switch to 10.5.

Re:Service pack 3?

[delire]

I don't know if this will be helpful, but I found I liked the Leopard dock better after running:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

With cryptic commands like these just to get basic functionality how can anyone expect Normal Users to migrate to the platform? This is exactly the kind of thing that happens when you let geeks design user interfaces!