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All browsers on OS X suck?
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I use 'clicktoflash' to wipe the unsolicited flash out of Safari - sorts things out for me. My freshly installed laptop works fine without it tho- so I guess a fresh install might sort things out all nice for you.
I have been using several browsers, only one issue (Opera). Here they are in the order of priority for me. Opera was second until this last upgrade, ahead of Chrome. All are updated to latest version.
Safari - no problems
Chrome - no problems
Opera - inability to control YouTube videos
Firefox - no problems
Camino - no problems
iCab - no problems
OS X 10.6.6
Safari - no problems
Chrome - no problems
Opera - inability to control YouTube videos
Firefox - no problems
Camino - no problems
iCab - no problems
OS X 10.6.6
Another vote for Camino. I have to use Firefox pretty much exclusively at work. About once a day the spinning wheel of death arrives and I need to just walk away from my laptop for about three minutes while Firefox takes over everything.
Camino is a joy. It's fast. It never crashes. It handles every site with ease. I can't say enough good things about it.
http://caminobrowser.org/download/releases/2.0.6/
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It's possible that you have an app that is causing problems. I was ready to throw something when Safari and Chrome would beachball and freeze the entire system. I did some Googling and found a possible conflict. I uninstalled that program - in my case it was iStat Pro - and everything cleared up.
I have no idea why iStat would cause my Mac to slow down like that, but it was the only ONLY change I made and it made all the difference in the world.
I have no idea why iStat would cause my Mac to slow down like that, but it was the only ONLY change I made and it made all the difference in the world.
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& Firefox here. No problems like this at all. Sounds like a computer problem to me :/
I seriously hope this won't affect me, cause I'm about to buy a 2011 MBP. I absolutely love the Windows 7 Chromium experience. So FAST! It better be just as fast on OS X, or I might have to boot into W7.
It probably won't. I've seen posts from people who have similar problems as me, but it seems like I'm the only person who has problems with all browsers all at once. Chrome is good but it's just flash videos that flash (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=5f360fc06e240b1f&hl=en)
Problems have causes. The vast majority of the members of this forum have no problem with YouTube in any browser. If you want help to solve your problem, then you must give information relevant to your problem. Posting a link to others who also give no information will not get you far.
Your problem appears to be centered around Flash. It should be noted that MacOS X 10.6 no longer ships with a Flash plug-in. Which version of the Flash Internet Plugin do you have installed?
I only posted the link to show that I'm not the only one with the problem and that I'm not 'trolling'. I have Flash 10.2 installed. It happened with the Flash version before too – I was hoping 10.2 would have fixed it. I visit mostly tech sites like Engadget, this forum, and also Youtube itself. It seems the problem only occurs with Youtube and embedded Youtube videos [EDIT: it happens with the non-Youtube Flash videos on Engadget also]. I've repaired permissions, trashed preferences, reinstalled browsers, reinstalled Flash, cleared caches, turned off hardware acceleration for Flash, but still nothing.
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No problems here. My Mac runs multiple browsers with up to 150 (one hundred fifty) tabs perfectly.
Firefox is more resource intensive but it's the same in windows.
Firefox is more resource intensive but it's the same in windows.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)
You have to clear the question: is it a hardware or software issue?
Additional things to try:
Create another user and test.
Run in boot camp a Windows session and spend countless hours updating and then Give it a try. At least you will have your so loved Microsoft kick out of it, and then be happy surfing on flash websites as you were used to.
You have to clear the question: is it a hardware or software issue?
Additional things to try:
Create another user and test.
Run in boot camp a Windows session and spend countless hours updating and then Give it a try. At least you will have your so loved Microsoft kick out of it, and then be happy surfing on flash websites as you were used to.
Don't forget the DarWINE project and Crossover Mac. He could run the Windows browsers in OS X without even needing to run Windows. Might be an interesting side by side test.
I'm just asking whether others have the same problems. If I didn't act, do you think I would have over 5 browsers on my computer? I'm not that desperate to go back to Windows so I'll stick with Firefox for now. I stopped using Windows when I bought my Macbook Pro 3 years ago so the only experience with it is at work.
do you have any extensions installed? but yes, i have similar experiences. here's a screen shot of Chrome:
4 tabs open (MR, ArsTechnica, Youtube, a watch forum)
4 extensions installed (Adblock, Ghostery, Xmarks, Tracktor)
FF4 is way worse. 2 tabs and 3 extensions ate 500 mb right off the bat. Safari is all right... but i don't like the tab management when compared with Chrome/FF so i don't use it much. great to see that some light surfing on the internet demands just as much, if not more, memory than when i'm working in Lightroom and Excel with rdio running in the background.
and for those commenting on fresh installs, i just bought this laptop... maybe 5 days ago? it's about as fresh as can be.
4 tabs open (MR, ArsTechnica, Youtube, a watch forum)
4 extensions installed (Adblock, Ghostery, Xmarks, Tracktor)
FF4 is way worse. 2 tabs and 3 extensions ate 500 mb right off the bat. Safari is all right... but i don't like the tab management when compared with Chrome/FF so i don't use it much. great to see that some light surfing on the internet demands just as much, if not more, memory than when i'm working in Lightroom and Excel with rdio running in the background.
and for those commenting on fresh installs, i just bought this laptop... maybe 5 days ago? it's about as fresh as can be.
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the myth of Firefox's 'bloat' needs to die, hard. It's been steadily improving since 3.0 and at this point is more efficient with memory than most of the major browsers -
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/internet-explorer-9-chrome-10-opera-11,2897-11.html
Firefox 4.0 is also vastly improved over 3.6. and, as always, much like with Chrome, the browser's memory usage is highly dependent on the number and specific extensions involved.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/internet-explorer-9-chrome-10-opera-11,2897-11.html
Firefox 4.0 is also vastly improved over 3.6. and, as always, much like with Chrome, the browser's memory usage is highly dependent on the number and specific extensions involved.
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I use only Safari for browsing and have never problems and Chrome should also not causing problems, because it is build on the same webkit as Safari. All browsers should be based on webkit, then you would have no compatibility problems with websites anymore.
I use only Safari for browsing and have never problems and Chrome should also not causing problems, because it is build on the same webkit as Safari. All browsers should be based on webkit, then you would have no compatibility problems with websites anymore.