Firefox crashes for me when it tries to load a yt video, but Safari and Opera function normally.
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Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS High Sierra to Developers
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Firefox crashes for me when it tries to load a yt video, but Safari and Opera function normally.
I have a huge problem with public beta 2. Everything was fine, and then I woke up the machine Saturday and it said that Mail had to reindex. Okay, I clicked and allowed it to do that. Some 200,000 e-mails. Took an hour. So I opened it up, and it told me to put in the password for one of my four accounts. I did so. Wrong, it said. Tried again. Wrong. Tried the other one it asked for. Wrong. Checked with Safari. Wrong. And as the process went on, finally, all of the accounts weren't responding. They weren't in the Accounts under System Sharing. Eventually, I realized it was an iCloud problem. All the passwords were in iCloud Keychain. But I couldn't get into iCloud. My phone, iPad and Apple TV, fine. So I changed my Apple ID. Eventually, when I got all the devices signed in with the new iCloud, everything was great. Except. I open Mail, and all the menus are blanked out except the useless ones. No Rebuild, certainly. Under Mailbox, only Go To-> and Move To-> Are available, but their pointing to grayed out, generic Mailbox 1, Mailbox 2, etc. Anybody tell me how to reconnect to the mboxes, or wherever the hell they are? Something in Terminal?
Uh, I seem to recall something...what version of OS do you have on it now? ...doesn't macOS 10.12.5 update the software installer so you can install High Sierra?
Here it is: "
- Enhances compatibility of the Mac App Store with future software updates.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207706
Waiting on the same here, apparently APFS splits the drives so they appear as two. Someone posted terminal commands to fix that but I'd rather wait.
I haven't had much luck converting external USB drives to APFS either.
In Safari, I'm seeing my gigabit internet do speed tests of 200 down/900 up, but go back to ~900/900 when using other browsers. This has been consistent the whole time since Beta 3 was installed earlier today.
EDIT: Though if I use a flash-based speed test in Safari it does normal speeds. I guess something with HTML5 download speeds in Safari is buggy.
EDIT: Though if I use a flash-based speed test in Safari it does normal speeds. I guess something with HTML5 download speeds in Safari is buggy.
You're testing it on that many machine and complaining about stability of a beta product? I'm sorry, but with 25 more machines tells me you should be well versed in a test harness lab and know what you're doing w/o crying fire in a theater.
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Why don't you run the Inspector and watch your resources to find out what's holding it up.
Apple closed by bug report as a duplicate issue. Normally they would have closed it, or at least asked me to test it in the next beta if they had fixed the issue. I think it might be Beta 4 for the fix.
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That's exactly what I did.
You wasted a lot of time, installing the 10.13RecoveryUPDate.pkg and then startup from Recovery would have saved you a lot of time
Convert to APFS is now greyed-out in Recovery Mode for my boot drive, which is good as I attempted it a number times and although it appeared to work, it made my drive unbootable. Hopefully this will be sorted for the next Beta. Without APFS there's not really much else to play with.
I've been very pleased with High Sierra - I've found it to be the most stable beta I've ever run on my iMac. I was on Beta 2 (update 1) 17A291m, and for the first time ever, installing Beta 3 failed spectacularly. I never got to the "estimated time remaining" status - just a smidgen of white on the indicator - this led to a gray screen with an active mouse. I tried re-booting - it simply wouldn't install. I Time-Machined back to where I was so I'm back up and running with Beta 2 Update 1 but I was really surprised - I've never had an update fail. I will say this, I'm a stickler for shutting down all running apps before I hit the install button and I always download first before I install instead of letting it download after the reboot. This time, I left a whole bunch of apps running first. I doubt that caused the issue but it was the only thing I did differently. I'm wondering if I should give it another whirl or just wait for Beta 4... EDIT: 2nd time was a charm, Beta 3 installed with no further issues.
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This isn't crying fire in a theater ( since this being a developer preview release thread it would be more liking to crying fire in an already burning building ) this is saying after testing across 7 machines I've come across many instabilities vs someone with a single machine saying this release is essentially a very stable release.
Not saying whoever hasn't witnessed instabilities is clueless or don't know what they're doing. Just merely saying across these particular machines this is what I have experienced to share with whoever is reading so if they are seeing the same thing they can say "Whew, ok, it's not just me."
I try testing across as many different hardware models as possible when I can so I can try to then report as many bugs as I can, hoping that when GM hits a lot of this 'ish is worked out.
I am just trying to be a decent fireman.
Beta 3 much better so far, was having a lot of issues with Photos crashing and then needing to repair the library in beta 2.
Still having an issue when iMac sits it starts flashing a folder with a question mark in it, not sure if this is an issue thats happening when it goes to sleep. but when I restart everything starts back up fine.
Still having an issue when iMac sits it starts flashing a folder with a question mark in it, not sure if this is an issue thats happening when it goes to sleep. but when I restart everything starts back up fine.
https://download.developer.apple.co..._10_2017/macOS_10.13_beta_3_Release_Notes.pdf
or if you don't have a Developer's account use this link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lr3u4ppwlzyul4b/macOS_10.13_beta_3_Release_Notes.pdf?dl=0
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/lr3u4ppwlzyul4b/macOS_10.13_beta_3_Release_Notes.pdf?dl=0
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Installed High Sierra beta 3 on 2016 Tb MB Pro with 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD this morning. Installation and APFS conversion was flawless. The entire process took a little more than 30 minutes.
The machine is running very smooth under non-trivial load (MacOS: Pixelmator, Sketch, Safari Technology Preview, Firefox and iTunes running most of the day; Windows 10 / Parallels: Running cross-browsers tests with Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox Developer and IE 10, with Windows update occurring in background). Also, the machine is displaying typical battery performance: battery @ 60% after 2 hours of continuous use with graphics, network and music activity -- this implies ~ 5 hours estimate with moderate load.
The only problem I've noticed is the aforementioned MacOS Firefox Youtube crashing -- though issue does not occur with Firefox Developer.
Net-net: very happy with High Sierra Beta 3 so far.
The machine is running very smooth under non-trivial load (MacOS: Pixelmator, Sketch, Safari Technology Preview, Firefox and iTunes running most of the day; Windows 10 / Parallels: Running cross-browsers tests with Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox Developer and IE 10, with Windows update occurring in background). Also, the machine is displaying typical battery performance: battery @ 60% after 2 hours of continuous use with graphics, network and music activity -- this implies ~ 5 hours estimate with moderate load.
The only problem I've noticed is the aforementioned MacOS Firefox Youtube crashing -- though issue does not occur with Firefox Developer.
Net-net: very happy with High Sierra Beta 3 so far.
After 3 developer betas, this thing still runs terrible on older Mac’s. I thought by installing an SSD in my MacBook Pro that it would help, but the memory usage is horrendous and the whole system is just sluggish. It has gotten progressively better since the first build, but it’s still just not usable for me.
