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Apple Releases Safari 4.0.3

robegad said:
It seems that only parts of Glims are incompatible with 4.03, since I have glims running, and no problems. However I have not all features of Glims enabled, a suspect for your instability may be "Show Favicon on tab label" which I have deactivated.

Greetings,
Rob E Gad
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Interesting find, but it seems like there is no simple remedy, since there is no way to disable that option once Safari has upgraded (since safari immediately crashes). Reinstalling Glims doesn't work since that feature is enabled by default (honestly the maker should have had all added features off by default, and let the user enable what he/she wants-- bad design). I was also unable to find any plist file or something similar that stores the preferences for glims.

Since I find Safari quite irritating to use without the added functionality of glims, I'll stick with Firefox, until they can pump out a fix.
 
chan2004 said:
hmm

Safari always crashes for me.
Anyway, Firefox is way better and reliable
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I always found the beta crashed on me, but since Safari 4 went out of beta I don't think it's crashed once for me, and I tend to use it daily.

Mail on the other hand...
 
Installed 4.0.3 , no problems. Safari always runs ok for me (except for some webpages) never crashes. I have no third party plugins installed though.
 
redking31591 said:
hey everyone,
I just found out if you have glims installed it won't work with safari 4.0.3 so you need to uninstall it with these terminal commands of safari won't start and it will just keep crashing.

sudo rm -rf /Library/InputManagers/Glims/
sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Glims/
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Actually, you don't need to perform the second part. Leaving it in place means that your custom search engines will still be in place once glims is updated.
 
b0kaj said:
Why do I have to reboot my computer after installing a debug-release update of a web browser? It really beats me. Keep it separate from the OS... like a sane browser.
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Because invariably you've either had Safari loaded, or some other application (by Apple or a third-party) is using the WebKit framework (which allows the browser to be separate from the actual OS as you want) and therefore it may not be able to be updated immediately as it MAY be in use.

So rather than potentially breaking a ton of running apps, it updates WebKit at the next reboot.

Pretty simple when you think of it.
 
WTF!!!

First this update causes a freeze on restart on my Mac Pro..... took 3 restart to finally get past the grey apple screen.....

Now my digital banking service gives me a Unsupported Browser error even though they support safari 3.x and 4.x.....

WTF!!!?????????
 
Glims works fine for me even with favicon's enabled. 4.0.3, did however break keywurl which is not updated as regularly as glims and will (i presume) stay broken for a while. Thanks to the poster who provided a fix for the keywurl incompatibility, much appreciated.
 
The new Safari took a couple of seconds to download. Restart is not such a big deal - took a pee and the computer was back up before I was back. On the system updates my MBP seems to take two or three tries to get going. This was the first time. No major changes that I notice and I still believe Safari - especially since the last update - is fast than Firefox.
 
Safari 4:

LOVE how it handles RSS feeds.

HATE how it handles almost any kind of animation.

Still needs a lot of work, but I welcome the update. Does anyone know why Safari has such a hard time with flash and other animation?
 
I love getting updates. You never know whats gunna happen!!! 10.5.8 fixed my monitor problems :D
 
Problem

I have encountered a problem now.
I just installed Safari Update, restarted my macbook, and as login in window appears, i enter the password and there's a blue screen for about a minute, and then login window appears again. And its over and over again, cant log in. And i have work to do!! Any ideas what's the problem?
 
MorphingDragon said:
You definitely havent used Linux. X11 needs restarting when you just need to change the resolution. (Im talking a proper system wide one, not those silly single user one that slowly ruins the system) Have fun with Flash, if you thought Mac OSX was bad. Or maybe the bootstrapper. Or the silly little rebuild updates that dont change anything.
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I've never used linux on a mac. Maybe it is as you say, but I would go months without rebooting during the five years I used linux exclusively. Of course, I was never bleeding edge, maybe that had something to do with it.
 
peterdevries said:
Safari reboots within two minutes. No-one is so important that they can't spare those 120 seconds. Get over it.. :rolleyes:
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It would be awesome if once every week or two my car just stopped. "Yeah, I need a few minutes." it would say. Then it would get all cranky when I insisted I still needed to go somewhere.
 
run-kmc said:
It would be awesome if once every week or two my car just stopped. "Yeah, I need a few minutes." it would say. Then it would get all cranky when I insisted I still needed to go somewhere.
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Wow, so you are the one with the magic car that never needs gas, oil changes, tune-ups, new tires, etc. etc.
 
njl said:
1password is now not integrated.. i think.. i need to hit up their forum now.
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Seems to work. After the update, 1password disappears. Just go to the 1password app and in the preference for browsers, uncheck it from safari and then check it. That fixed it for me.
 
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