Apple Releases Safari 5.0.4

[ghostlyorb]

Wow.. lots of updates today!

 

[petvas]

Wow.. lots of updates today!

I guess we will also see Mac OS X 10.6.7 tomorrow

 

[techpr]

Installed... really feels faster.

 

[herocero]

I am very curious what changes that Google makes to webkit as it develops Chrome that make it into these Safari updates.

 

[rawCpoppa]

Can anyone say if this update is for Safari 5 on windows as well?
My Safari always seems to trip DEP in XP for some reason. I hope this update helps

 

[tom5304]

I'm not seeing "snappier" at all in the Safari update. Still the same clunky lag in opening complex pages like Techcrunch and Engadget. Still the same spinning beach balls.

Chrome is so much faster and snappier that it's one of the things that is maintaining my faith in Google. Chrome browser in my iMac isn't just a little quicker, it's WAY quicker, and no technical benchmarks can gloss that over.

If Google can develop the best browser available in such a relatively short time, what other superior products do they have in store?

And conversely, if Apple still can't get their browser to run without lags and spinning beach balls, with all the lead time they had, what does it say about their technical prowess?

But then there's the obvious UI superiority of iOS over my clunky, laggy Android experience with the HTC Aria... Thankfully, we have choices.

 

[stockscalper]

I bet it still crashes a dozen times a day.

 

[hanpa]

Any fixes regarding all annoying crashes (plugin error) when displaying Flash contents?

 

[petvas]

I didn't have a single crash before and I don't see any difference at all.

 

[djrobsd]

What???

Safari is almost like Internet Explorer... It's irrelevant, left behind in the dust of innovation by Google Chrome (10.0 just released!) and Firefox 4.0 (in final beta stages).

 

[tom5304]

Safari is almost like Internet Explorer... It's irrelevant, left behind in the dust of innovation by Google Chrome (10.0 just released!) and Firefox 4.0 (in final beta stages).

I really do see it this way, too. Safari is so far behind that it hardly matters any more.

Maybe when 10.7 comes out we'll see it catch up with Chrome? But by then, Chrome will probably so much farther ahead.

The crippled and crappy Safari and MobileMe make me wonder how high Apple's standards really are.

I'm an Apple loyalist and I'd rather use Safari, but it has so far to go to catch up with Chrome.

 

[saxon48]

It updates just as I switched to Chromium. Well, time to give ol' Faithful another go after this update.

 

[petvas]

Safari is almost like Internet Explorer... It's irrelevant, left behind in the dust of innovation by Google Chrome (10.0 just released!) and Firefox 4.0 (in final beta stages).

That is your opinion. I still prefer Safari than Chrome. It integrates better than anything else with my Apple devices. It has a great reader mode that I use very often on my MBA. Chrome is nice but still not as integrated as Safari.

Internet Explorer 9 is also a very good browser...

 

[RawBert]

Please no more "snappier" comments or I'll kill myself.

 

[notabadname]

It's pretty funny that it actually does seem "snappier" than it was. Will take a few days to see if some of the crash issues have disappeared.

 

[Regbial]

I really do see it this way, too. Safari is so far behind that it hardly matters any more.

Maybe when 10.7 comes out we'll see it catch up with Chrome? But by then, Chrome will probably so much farther ahead.

The crippled and crappy Safari and MobileMe make me wonder how high Apple's standards really are.

I'm an Apple loyalist and I'd rather use Safari, but it has so far to go to catch up with Chrome.

THey need to get their priorities straight. Too much focus on the iPad and iPhone, what about us who have the computers, you know the original Apple product. Apple you dissapoint me. :/

 

[petvas]

THey need to get their priorities straight. Too much focus on the iPad and iPhone, what about us who have the computers, you know the original Apple product. Apple you dissapoint me. :/

Take a look at Safari on Lion. It is amazing...The new OS in general is a major upgrade and shows that Apple doesn't neglect computers.

 

[Popeye206]

Please no more "snappier" comments or I'll kill myself.

But it is... it is snappier!

 

[Dan--]

Any update on the need to use 32 bit mode for certain users to access youtube videos?

(Ref: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1098882/
and https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1097963/)

Thanks,

Dan

 

[dethmaShine]

Please no more "snappier" comments or I'll kill myself.

Seems snappier to be honest.

 

[PlipPlop]

I got from 452.5ms(1 test) to (first test 429ms) 417.8ms(second test) in sunspider 0.9.1.

226 for me on chrome.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Safari is almost like Internet Explorer... It's irrelevant, left behind in the dust of innovation by Google Chrome (10.0 just released!) and Firefox 4.0 (in final beta stages).

I agree to some degree, but lets' not count safari out just yet.

 

[Noiseboy]

Most enthusiastically contrafribularitistic snappier. Anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuously snappier!

But I have to reboot with the upgrade...so I shall return, interfrastically.

All hail Blackadder

 

[decimortis]

Wooohoooo! The TimCard auto-reload page actually works in Safari now. Mmmmm sweet sweet caffeine.

I'm not going to use the snappier line, but this is actually the first time I've noticed a huge speed increase in the browser.

D.

 

[Popeye206]

I really do see it this way, too. Safari is so far behind that it hardly matters any more.

Maybe when 10.7 comes out we'll see it catch up with Chrome? But by then, Chrome will probably so much farther ahead.

The crippled and crappy Safari and MobileMe make me wonder how high Apple's standards really are.

I'm an Apple loyalist and I'd rather use Safari, but it has so far to go to catch up with Chrome.

I have to ask... what is so much better about Chrome? Or Firefox for that matter? I have tried Firefox and found it to be frustratingly sluggish.

I use the internet all day long. For work and for pleasure and really don't have any issue other than with Yahoo Mail can be a slug at times... but honestly, I think that's Yahoo.

For the average consumer, really... is there any real difference? Please tell me or is this just a case of you liking red vs blue?