Apple Releases Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript Enhancements and Bug Fixes

[Takohashi]

Gmail is totally messed up for me, too, in Safari. I have had to go onto Chrome now until Apple sorts this out.

Yes. Same here. Buttons won't work on Youtube. Extensions seem to be experiencing odd behavior. Also Gmail is all messed up. Heck, I couldn't even log in here on Safari 5.1.4. I had to use Opera to sign in and post.

I decided the problem. Once I opened Safari on a 64-bit mode, all the problems disappeared.

 

[weckart]

I decided the problem. Once I opened Safari on a 64-bit mode, all the problems disappeared.

Just found out myself that I had Safari locked on 32 bit mode. Came here to edit my post and saw that you had found the same solution.

 

[Wheelie4]

I decided the problem. Once I opened Safari on a 64-bit mode, all the problems disappeared.

Ah cool, thx that worked!

 

[ledzeppelin]

Just found out myself that I had Safari locked on 32 bit mode. Came here to edit my post and saw that you had found the same solution.

how do you check for the 32 v 64 mode, please?

 

[Kar98]

Is this the first Safari update that DOESN'T require a restart?

-Kevin

Eh?

 

[xinu]

I'm using it now, but my 16GB iMac Core i7 hates me when I use Safari. Why? This is always the result, even if I only have a few tabs open:

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Firefox has never come that close, memory nor CPU wise. Personally, Safari 3.x was the best - 4 and now 5 have been CPU and memory hogs for me on all my Macs.

Maybe it is doing that Preview Fetch thing? That user cannot switch off. Amazing feature. Incredibly amazing.

 

[ledzeppelin]

Eh?

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Yeah, I see the restart after DL but after I did mine it didn't ask to like usual unless I'm mistaken, and could be ....

 

[JUiCEJamie]

Was naively hoping this update would merge the search bar and address bar.

Nope - back to chrome.

Mountain Lion.

 

[Yamcha]

Not sure about 5.1.4 but I have Safari 5.2 Beta installed on my Lion Partition and it's screaming fast

 

[Takohashi]

how do you check for the 32 v 64 mode, please?

Open Application folder, select Safari.app and press Cmd+I

 

[eh303]

I decided the problem. Once I opened Safari on a 64-bit mode, all the problems disappeared.

Thank you! I now have a happy wife.

 

[steve333]

You want to make safari faster?
Go to the App store and install ghostery and click to flash
You'll be surprised how much this helps

 

[andrew upstairs]

I haven't been able to log into any vBulletin forums after installing 5.1.4. Including this one. What's up?

Cleared cache, reset Safari, restarted, opened in 64-bit, etc.

 

[hayesk]

Eh?

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You must have skipped the last update. I didn't have to restart for mine. I believe the reason is that there are no webkit updates this time.

 

[cherrykate]

Apple Releases Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript Enhancements and Bug Fixes

I guess the new updated version has a slower speed as the old one.

 

[Lunarstone]

Still cant get HTML5 Youtube videos playing correctly without lag or UI problems, anyone else experiencing this?

I think has to do with YouTube and not Safari since other HTML5 videos on other sites have no problems. They play just as smooth as it were Flash. An example of this is Vimeo.

 

[DESNOS]

And it all means nothing until they fix the idiotic amount of memory that this thing eats and eats and eats. I'll stick with Chrome.

I have 14 tabs open at the moment and it's using slightly over 400MB (Safari + Safari Web Content processes), which to me is perfectly reasonable. Is yours significantly higher or something? I don't get why so many people seem to think its RAM usage is high. I just don't see it.

I'm gonna guess that the majority of people who think Safari has high RAM usage don't understand what they're seeing. Perhaps they think that RAM usage is Real Memory+Virtual Memory or something... Then there's the crowd that doesn't understand what inactive RAM is. Unless you're seeing performance issues, I think the majority of people on here would be better served not messing with their RAM, that is, unless you want to actually look up what things mean.

 

[doctor-don]

how do you check for the 32 v 64 mode, please?

Open Application folder, select Safari.app and press Cmd+I

So which OS started using Safari (or any other app) in 64-bit mode?

Mine is Leopard 10.5.8 and Safari 5.0.6, and there is no mention of the mode being 32 or 64 in Info.

 

[DESNOS]

So which OS started using Safari (or any other app) in 64-bit mode?

Mine is Leopard 10.5.8 and Safari 5.0.6, and there is no mention of the mode being 32 or 64 in Info.

Snow Leopard was the first with 64-bit Safari if I recall.

 

[Wild-Bill]

How about 10.6.9, Apple ?!?!?!?

Hey Apple!!!! Did you put Snow Leopard 10.6.9 on the pay no mind list or what? Wasn't 10.6.9 supposed to add support for iCloud, for those folks who cannot stand Lion and are staying with Snow Leopard ?
Release 10.6.9 already !


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[Takohashi]

I have 14 tabs open at the moment and it's using slightly over 400MB (Safari + Safari Web Content processes), which to me is perfectly reasonable. Is yours significantly higher or something? I don't get why so many people seem to think its RAM usage is high. I just don't see it.

I have 2 tabs open at the moment — 606MB (Safari + Safari Web Content processes)

 

[Morod]

Snow Leopard 10.6.8 definitely requires a restart after this update.

 

[v3nt]

still got that really annoying refresh bug that also logs you out of everything!

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

You want to make safari faster?
Go to the App store and install ghostery and click to flash
You'll be surprised how much this helps

How would ghostery make safari faster?

 

[Akarin]

I'd love to use Firefox but I stick with Safari because of bookmarks and reading list sync between iPhone, Mac, MacBook, iPad. As for Chrome... hmmm... no, I'm not into Google spyware products.