Why is the Safari update like 2.5 times larger then all of Firefox is? That's just aggravating...
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Apple Releases Safari 3.1.1, Addresses PWN2OWN Vulnerability
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I hate to rob you of your righteous fury, but you could just select "Ignore Update..." from the Update menu...
okay.. good work people.. nwo please make it not hang...
I'm tired of using command-option-escape.
good work on the charlie miller thing though. so it could execute code. so maybe it actually was a big enough vulnerability.
good job.
I'm tired of using command-option-escape.
good work on the charlie miller thing though. so it could execute code. so maybe it actually was a big enough vulnerability.
good job.
I've never had this problem. I reset Safari about once a week and it works perfectly every time.
m sick of it too. i show off by saying i do not have to shut down and restart my mac. i only do it when I'm bored.lol.
and i don't think making it compatible with windows is the issue. that's a totally different piece of junk
okay.. good work people.. nwo please make it not hang...
I'm tired of using command-option-escape.
good work on the charlie miller thing though. so it could execute code. so maybe it actually was a big enough vulnerability.
good job.
lol.. i sound like their team leader.
Doubtful. It's only a x.x.1 revision. The Acid-3 test still reports 75/100. It's my understanding that the internal WebKit builds now pass all 100 tests.
I don't know about hanging but Ars Technica's feed makes Safari unresponsive for a short period of time. Something about 333 articles, each one with an advertising image or two.
You could go to the menu and tell Software Updates to hide Safari. It won't show up anymore, until you explicitly decide to show it again.
Assuming you really don't want those security patches, of course.
WebKit is used by things that run in the background (like Dashboard). But you're right, a reboot shouldn't strictly be necessary. Quitting and restarting WebKit-using apps should be enough. At worst, a change like this should mandate a log-out, not a full reboot.
Linux has spoiled me. On my Linux boxes, I can upgrade all but the kernel without a reboot. I can even swap hardware device drivers, as long as they are not controlling a critical resource (like the hard drive with the root file system.)
P.S. No Windows Vista bashing, or I'll have your heads.
P.S. don't open yourself up to it.
Honestly, this doesn't hang with me. I'm on Windows XP. Is it hanging on Mac? That would be ridiculous.
Hey! It still has the 'Try to trick Windows users into installing software they don't want' bug!
I'm just curious why I have to reboot a Mac after upgrading a web browser...
Because Dashboard uses Webkit, so that also needs to restart. It's stupid though that Apple doesn't just restart Dashboard and be done with it. But this is imo a more safer way and to ensure nothing goes wrong if you don't restart. Who cares anyway, is a restart so life threatening? It takes me less then 30 sec. Boohoo
Hanging
Anyone with hanging issues and if you're using RoadRunner, try OpenDNS.com.
It worked for me. The numbers time warner and road runner use don't work well.
Anyone with hanging issues and if you're using RoadRunner, try OpenDNS.com.
It worked for me. The numbers time warner and road runner use don't work well.
Who cares anyway, is a restart so life threatening? It takes me less then 30 sec. Boohoo
Well, yah it's a bother. I have a dozen things open and doing lots of different edits. To save everything, close everything, and then re-open everything after restart is a huge pain. Easier to close software update and upgrade another day.
hey, If I wanted to restart all the time, I'd buy a PC. ;-)
Because Dashboard uses Webkit, so that also needs to restart. It's stupid though that Apple doesn't just restart Dashboard and be done with it. But this is imo a more safer way and to ensure nothing goes wrong if you don't restart. Who cares anyway, is a restart so life threatening? It takes me less then 30 sec. Boohoo
Well, my friend, your Dashboard theory is not-so-true. I'm on a Windows Vista computer (I'll have your heads if you bash!
) and it asks me to restart my computer or my computer will blow up into a radioactive landmine.What has the mankind come to... I don't want to bash Mac, but the software update is 23MB on Windows, 39MB on a Mac. A few other updates require restart on Mac, on PC doesn't. I find it strange too. But your argument about PC's is not relevant
Windows has probably another silly reason to restart haha.
Windows has probably another silly reason to restart haha.
Well, my friend, your Dashboard theory is not-so-true. I'm on a Windows Vista computer (I'll have your heads if you bash!
No, that's a separate download/program altogether. It's only 22.5 megs on windows. But I still have to restart.
No this time we complain and say the only reason the pwn2own issue was fixed because it got so much publicity so they had to fix it fast to look like they are responding to customers needs when clearly if you look at the memory leak issues listed just on the first page of the thread there are more important things to fix that would make end users much happier.