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Apple Offers Minor Fixes and Improvements With Safari 5.0.3 and 4.1.3
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Up until three days ago I was a diehard Safari fanboi. Didn't care for any other browser, they didn't feel Mac-like 
. I didn't see the point in trying anything else (especially now with extensions).
Then I tried chrome. SO MUCH QUICKER. And I don't know if my mac is wrong or something but with Safari it is super slow and crashes as hell. I mean REALLY.
(98% times flash is involved though).
With Chrome my mac is snappy. And I continuously check activity monitor, and it is WAY more efficient. So I'll be using Chrome from now on...
...Well i'm on Safari now. But that's because I keep forgetting to click Chrome. Safari is too much of a habit. I'll close it now.
. I didn't see the point in trying anything else (especially now with extensions).Then I tried chrome. SO MUCH QUICKER. And I don't know if my mac is wrong or something but with Safari it is super slow and crashes as hell. I mean REALLY.
(98% times flash is involved though).
With Chrome my mac is snappy. And I continuously check activity monitor, and it is WAY more efficient. So I'll be using Chrome from now on...
...Well i'm on Safari now. But that's because I keep forgetting to click Chrome. Safari is too much of a habit. I'll close it now.
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Yes.
Firefox is too slow for me, startup takes too long and just never feels 'complete'.
Chrome times out too often for me, every 3rd website/webpage it tells me it can't load it...but I click reload, it's fine. An annoying error..
I am impressed with the startup time though.
Safari just feels good.
I'm using Safari since i have Mac (10.4.8 Tiger on my MacBook) and had maybe 5 crashes total since. Good enough? Of course this will be subjective.
So you don't browse with gestures? I can't live without it [/Princess Vespa]
Firefox = slow. Really slow.
Chrome = Fast, not quite as fast as safari when using speed tests but Chrome isn't compatible with a lot of stuff.
Up until three days ago I was a diehard Safari fanboi. Didn't care for any other browser, they didn't feel Mac-like
Then I tried chrome. SO MUCH QUICKER. And I don't know if my mac is wrong or something but with Safari it is super slow and crashes as hell. I mean REALLY.
(98% times flash is involved though).
With Chrome my mac is snappy. And I continuously check activity monitor, and it is WAY more efficient. So I'll be using Chrome from now on...
...Well i'm on Safari now. But that's because I keep forgetting to click Chrome. Safari is too much of a habit. I'll close it now.
Err, but that is webkit based. IE, the same guts as Safari.
Yeah. It's faster than those two, and is more HTML5 ready than Chrome (And especially Firefox). Plus, the Top Sites in Safari looks so much cooler than Chrome's, and any of the Firefox ones.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)
Fanboy alert!
Seriously though, have you used Safari before? It's actually very nice, has the smoothest scrolling I've ever see from a browser, and multi touch gestures actually work. So what if it's not the absolute fastest, at this point browsers are all within milliseconds of each other speed wise.
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Fanboy alert!
Seriously though, have you used Safari before? It's actually very nice, has the smoothest scrolling I've ever see from a browser, and multi touch gestures actually work. So what if it's not the absolute fastest, at this point browsers are all within milliseconds of each other speed wise.
This update seems to have messed up the automatic clock settings. Did this happen to anyone else? It set mine back to December 31, 2000, 6:04 pm. Is this a glitch? I had to manually set the date and clock.
I remember when Chrome was faster than Safari. I believe it was Safari 5 or 5.0.1 that changed that. Whenever Safari started doing the dns pre-fetching.
As for your current experience with Safari, you most definitely have something wrong with your system.
Apple seem to be really good at getting scrolling/multitouch right. Whether in Safari or scrolling through apps in iOS.
Amongst the quite fun bickering, that is a very, very good point. Damn annoying. My number one reason for Safari crashes.
I watch BBC videos all the time using Safari. Live stuff and archived. Never any stability problems.