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Comment by STRML | Hacker News Reader

Glad to see discoveryd is toast. That's a big win and hopefully it's a symptom that some manager on the OS X team is starting to notice how sloppy development has gotten in the last few years.

On a related note, how insane is it that a minor patch like preventing JS `alert()`s from clobbering the browser has to be rolled into a full OS update? When will Safari auto-update like a regular app?

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The odd thing is that Safari usually does update separately from OS X. (Unlike Safari on iOS.)

It sounded like a pretty major bug to me. Essentially a website could hijack the entire browser before now, presumably forcing the user to restart the app. For quite some time, Chrome and Firefox have had that little checkbox on alerts, stopping the site sending any more.

For quite some time, Chrome and Firefox have had that little checkbox on alerts, stopping the site sending any more.

For quite some time, Safari has had this option (though I don't know for how long). Too bad it doesn't work.

That is the parent poster’s point. If Safari were patched independently of the operating system, issues like this could be addressed independently of monolithic system updates.

Safari _is_ updated independently in OS-X.

Maybe this update coincided close enough to the roll out of the OS update that it was included in this release.

Security patches don't count.

Major bug and minor patch can go together. Often a problem has big consequences but a small fix, and that's likely the case here.

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