Apple Releases Safari 5.1.2 with 'White Flash' and PDF Viewing Fixes

[mdriftmeyer]

It's my default as well. Working daily with Chrome, Opera Next, Firefox 8/9 the most stable version of WebKit comes with Safari.

Chrome is turning into one big pile. I've never stomached Opera and use it just for site validation. Firefox8/9 I use to test as I have multiple platforms and want to get as much breadth as possible outside the WebKit world.

 

[JAT]

I remember people used to watch their uptime and try to set new records back when 47 days was an incredible achievement. I think it mostly went away shortly after Windows XP arrived (let alone OS X 10.3-ish).

Uh, what? Mac OS 6.0.8 would run for months without hiccup. In the 80s. Maybe Windows people found XP an improvement.

 

[s15119]

People still use Safari?

Yeah, lot's of us prefer it to the other offerings. Works great for me.

 

[hfletcher]

It's definitely snappier

 

[skillwill]

feels better and the fans don't seem to be blazing.

 

[JonoX]

I wonder if it fixes the memory leak?

 

[coder12]

Thank God!

I was taking a test and it whited out once. The only way to see the questions was to zoom out a little ways and click where I thought the radio buttons would be, and then to zoom out again and see if I clicked the right one.

Pain in the @55!

 

[QuarterSwede]

People still use Safari?

Definitely for Reading List. That thing is a godsend on this board.

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

PDF with Safari >= 5.1.x is horrible. No useful context menu, for example. But not only that. Why does Safari not offer a "Open in Preview" for links to PDF-files?

 

[WeegieMac]

Hopefully it fixes the RAM leakage, and stops the Safari Web Content from hitting ridiculous numbers.

 

[Lesser Evets]

...but does it fix the annoying random Tab reloads?

NO. I just tried.

 

[50548]

Ha! No, not that it matters, but I did go over 60 days once on my old MBP without a restart. I guess I like the feeling that I know OS X doesn't need to be restarted every so often as compared to my Win7 PC at the office.

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Never had any of these Safari issues on my Mac but will update anyway...and since you mentioned Windows 7, I don't know how anyone can think that such POS is remotely comparable to OS X.

My organization has just switched to it and I already can't stand the horribly unintuitive MS Office ribbon interface (much worse than Office 2011 for Mac)...not to mention that the other day Outlook deleted an entire .pst folder with my archived messages (same think happened to at least five other people in the office).

 

[sbrhwkp3]

Thank god. That white flash was so annoying.

 

[Cougarcat]

NO. I just tried.

Terrific.

 

[Jolly Jimmy]

Finally,... I've been getting white flashes very often.

 

[motulist]

5.0 was great, but then 5.1 introduced a boatload of brand new problems. And these problems are seemingly unrelated since they affect many different functions. Does anyone know what they changed in 5.1 that was so majorly different than 5.0?

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EDIT: a little googling shows they changed the following

New features include Reading List for managing webpages and links, new process architecture for improved stability and responsiveness, (HAH! Yeah right. Whatever they changed had the opposite effect.), resume for launching windows from a previous browsing session, improved privacy settings, Private AutoFill, additional text search controls, and the ability to drag and drop items from the Downloads window. Introduces support for full-screen webpages, media caching with the HTML5 application cache, MathML, Web Open Font Format, CSS3 auto-hyphenation, CSS3 vertical text, CSS3 text emphasis, Window.onError, and formatted XML files (Maybe this stuff also caused some of the new problems?). Adds new Extensions APIs, including support for popovers, menus, new event classes, and interaction with Safari Reader.

 

[Shrink]

People still use Safari?

Yeah, pretty stupid, huh.

You just have to be be patient with us unsophisticated morons.

 

[50548]

Yeah, pretty stupid, huh.

You just have to be be patient with us unsophisticated morons.

I wonder which browser he recommends...IE? Or perhaps iCab?

 

[shstiger2009]

Hopefully this helps my poor Safari beach ball.

 

[zeemeerman2]

I wonder which browser he recommends...IE? Or perhaps iCab?

Nah, the real geek stuff: Lynx. A text-based browser. It fits so well with Terminal.app!

 

[QuarterSwede]

PDF with Safari >= 5.1.x is horrible. No useful context menu, for example. But not only that.

I think it's fairly useful.

Why does Safari not offer a "Open in Preview" for links to PDF-files?

It does once you load the PDF. It doesn't really matter since you'll have to download it anyway.

 

[krolingo]

not showing up in the updater. ill try later. maybe because im on a powerpc mac?

You are kidding right? Apple abandoned PPC 5 years ago...

 

[Robocopper]

Obviously...

It requires a restart! Bummer. There goes 47 days and 11 hours of uptime on my iMac! Maybe I'll wait for a while longer since I don't have any of the issues in this fix.

Obviously you are not running Lion... this has to be the most memory hogging unstable software I have ever used.

And since when did a browser update need to be 49.2MB in size? This is crazy stuff.

And it requires a restart. This is as bad as Internet Explorer 5 years ago. Chrome is faster, smoother, has a much better integrated search/URL bar, and never requires a system restart. What gives?

 

[inlovewithi]

Ha! No, not that it matters, but I did go over 60 days once on my old MBP without a restart. I guess I like the feeling that I know OS X doesn't need to be restarted every so often as compared to my Win7 PC at the office.

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The computers at my old Job were Windows 2000 and they had a few years going without a restart. Just saying, your comments sounds so smug, but if it does make you feel special, then I suggest that you forget about the update and just try to go years without restarting it. If it's something that's going to make you feel good, then why not.

 

[doctor-don]

You are kidding right? Apple abandoned PPC 5 years ago...

And everyone using a PowerBook could afford to buy a newer Mac, right?