The second developers release of OSX Mountain Lion has been released to developers and a few new things have shown up. More to come no doubt.
New iCloud service may sync open tabs as well
Among the small but significant changes are automatic Twitter notification options, a new iCloud button in Safari that will let users sync tabs across devices, and more explicit permission in OS X when an app wants to access personal information stores such as the Address Book.
The latter change reflects a move already made in iOS 5.1 to better protect users' contacts after it was discovered that a number of apps were circumventing Apple guidelines and uploading personal information without explicit user permission. Mountain Lion will also feature a new "Privacy" panel in System Preferences where users can manage what apps can access in terms of personal data, MacRumors reports.
Mark Gurman notes that users of Mountain Lion DP2 can also opt to have Twitter for Mac notifications turned on, which lets replies and direct messages be shown on the desktop in the Growl-like Notification Center that is set to be another new feature in Mountain Lion. Also noted is a new optional "iCloud" button that offers to sync open tabs between devices, letting a user start web surfing on one device and continue on another. The syncing may also preserve the previous state of the tabs (a feature found in Lion already) so that all tabs can be re-opened on a new launch.
Mountain Lion is expected to be released this summer.
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