Apple Releases Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript Enhancements and Bug Fixes

[cargath]

As for Chrome... hmmm... no, I'm not into Google spyware products.

Why not use Chromium instead?

 

[deputy_doofy]

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

-Kevin

Mine did not require it, either, and that's a first for me.

 

[Mister Ed]

Launch Safari (the old version or this new one).
Start private browsing.
Go to google images.
Search for anything (e.g. "home").
Scroll down the page. Can you still see search results?

On my system (black macbook running 10.6.8), it only returns about 15 images (what is viewable on my screen before scrolling). As well, the settings and safety button up top don't respond to clicks.

I had this problem with 5.1.2 and it seems 5.1.4 hasn't fixed it.

I have also recently experienced this bug, and have found a workaround.
1) Enable cookies (You may need to turn of private browsing - I'm not sure.)
2) go to http://www.google.com/preferences
3) Click on "Never show Instant Results"
4) Move the "Results per page" slider to 100
5) Click on the "Save" button

Google Images will now behave until you quit Safari. Then, you will need to repeat the above steps. I'm not sure why my preferences don't persist between sessions. I use Private Browsing and Safari 5.0.5.

Please let us know if this solution works for you too.

 

[Mister Ed]

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

-Kevin

On Snow Leopard 10.6.8, it is indicating a restart is required. I'm holding off installing it until I hear more positive reports that the "Accept Cookies: Never" preference is respected correctly.

Also, CosmoPod was broken with the Safari 5.1 release – July, 2011.
Does anybody have a YouTube video downloader they really like?

 

[pondosinatra]

Will this one stop crashing once a day?

 

[dakwar]

I have also recently experienced this bug, and have found a workaround.
1) Enable cookies (You may need to turn of private browsing - I'm not sure.)
2) go to http://www.google.com/preferences
3) Click on "Never show Instant Results"
4) Move the "Results per page" slider to 100
5) Click on the "Save" button

Google Images will now behave until you quit Safari. Then, you will need to repeat the above steps. I'm not sure why my preferences don't persist between sessions. I use Private Browsing and Safari 5.0.5.

Please let us know if this solution works for you too.

If I do this in normal mode and then turn on private browsing, for that private browsing session it forgets the changes and so doesn't work, but it does remember the updated preferences after I exit private browsing.
If I change the preferences after turning on private browsing, it indeed does fix the problem (clickable settings buttons and all, thanks!), but, as you point out, doesn't remember these updated preferences for the next time I turn on private browsing. Quite annoying.

 

[Akarin]

Why not use Chromium instead?

Can't sync bookmarks and reading list between my Mac's, iPad and iPhone.

 

[HyperZboy]

So Apple is giving me 2 choices...

Downgrade to Windows XP to use the new SAFARI and get rid of my current Leopard Apple Mac tower or...

Buy a new Mac.

BAD APPLE!

Just not right in my opinion.

Poor customer support for longtime Apple users.

 

[lazerbrains]

I updated Safari to 5.1.4 this morning, and now it has crashed 3 times so far. Once while it was just sitting in the background. Anyone else having problems with Safari crashing. Mine has always been stable until this update.

 

[steve333]

How would ghostery make safari faster?

I can only guess it's because it prevents sites from tracking me. Whatever the reason is, it works. Try it.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

I can only guess it's because it prevents sites from tracking me. Whatever the reason is, it works. Try it.

I now have it installed in safari and chrome.

 

[mrial]

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

Thank you! Had the same problem! Was up half the night deleting files, reloading, restarting etc, etc, etc and it was only this simple little check box.

 

[xxxamazexxx]

Sigh... Safari is still the Internet Explorer of the Mac...

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

Sigh... Safari is still the Internet Explorer of the Mac...

Actually, according to the last few Browser Grand Prix on Tom's Hardware, Safari is the best browser for Mac (not that we needed a series of benchmarks to tell us that). It's just a matter of whether you like Chrome's customization and wider extension support over Safari's optimization for the Mac platform.

 

[movieator]

Anyone else suddenly having bizarre cookie behavior?

 

[lazerbrains]

Anyone else suddenly having bizarre cookie behavior?

I was having bizarre behavior, not sure it was cookie based, but mine was also crashing a lot, and not loading certain pages. I was in 32 bit mode. I switched it back to 64 bit mode, and the problems seemed to have gone away.

 

[upnorth067]

Safari running pretty smooth on day 3.

 

[^^BIGMac]

Feels Snappier™

But is it "magical"...

 

[kylos]

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.

Check out vjl323's screen shot. That's real memory. There's no need to belittle other people's knowledge simply because you don't observe the same things.

No screen shots here, but I watched Activity Monitor display heavy paging activity for 5 minutes without any user input because Safari had used every last available MB on my system. This continued until Safari eventually crashed. It seemed that the very act of context switching was causing the OS to page. And I have a mid-2011 Mac Mini with 8GB RAM.

Also, Google Maps is now nearly unusable in Safari because the very act of panning causes massive memory allocation. Again, watching Activity Monitor after a few pans and zooms while editing a route in Google Maps, I saw Safari's memory use grow more than 5 GBs. The growth continued for several minutes after I stopped using Google Maps, meanwhile Safari had locked up. About 15 minutes later, it had released the RAM.

Right now, Safari is crap. I'll see if the latest update improves things, but as it is, it's intolerable.

 

[ledzeppelin]

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

still learning the Apple ways....(6-2010 convert)
thank you!

When I did this it had an option to open in 32bit mode so I am thinking it is currently open in 64bit mode but I did not see verification of this in the dialog box, hmmm.
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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.

I am glad I am not the only one that likes to have a *lot* of tabs and windows open at once!......

regards,

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If I do this in normal mode and then turn on private browsing, for that private browsing session it forgets the changes and so doesn't work, but it does remember the updated preferences after I exit private browsing.
If I change the preferences after turning on private browsing, it indeed does fix the problem (clickable settings buttons and all, thanks!), but, as you point out, doesn't remember these updated preferences for the next time I turn on private browsing. Quite annoying.

I hope Apple software designers are reading this. For improvements! Big Hint to

I also hope Apple fixed the tracking app google had been installing on folks using safari I read about several weeks ago.
Here is a link; http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57398571-93/google-faces-new-investigations-over-safari-tracking/
Another one;http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...08i2Dw&usg=AFQjCNETsp7wC4L7KyfC39J37yn2L8lTqg

And last link;http://mashable.com/2012/02/17/google-caught-tracking-safari-users/

 

[talkin73]

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.

Thanks. Fixed it for me too.