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Is Safari crap for anyone else who likes to use a lot of tabs?

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DevilsRejection

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Apr 13, 2006
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I'm not talking 5 tabs here, after 20 or so performance of Safari turns from great to crap.

Pretty much after i added enough tabs that the drop down menu appears for the tabs that can't fit on the top it slows to a crawl!

10.4.7, intel imac 2gb ram
 
haha....why dont you close some haha...or have a different window for each subject...

you can try other browsers and se what has better performance.
 
DevilsRejection said:
I'm not talking 5 tabs here, after 20 or so performance of Safari turns from great to crap.

Pretty much after i added enough tabs that the drop down menu appears for the tabs that can't fit on the top it slows to a crawl!
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I'm not sure that any browser would run that well with that many tabs open. Like the above poster said, try Firefox or another browser and see if it works better. Personally, I like Safari the best. But I don't usually have more than 3-5 tabs open at any one time.
 
I use Safari and often have huge numbers of tabs open across multiple windows (I've gotten up to 300-400 tabs in one window before, and 50-60 across multiple windows is common for me), and the only slowdown I've ever noticed in Safari is from specific sites, independent of the number of tabs. This is on a PowerBook G4, by the way, so it's not like I have a powerful processor.
 
Yuvi said:
I use Safari and often have huge numbers of tabs open across multiple windows (I've gotten up to 300-400 tabs in one window before, and 50-60 across multiple windows is common for me), and the only slowdown I've ever noticed in Safari is from specific sites, independent of the number of tabs. This is on a PowerBook G4, by the way, so it's not like I have a powerful processor.
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I call bluff!

I posted about this exact topic the other day. Safari dies and locks up the entire system. There's a memory leak.
 
Demon Hunter said:
I call bluff!

I posted about this exact topic the other day. Safari dies and locks up the entire system. There's a memory leak.
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<old pics> There's 54 tabs in that second window, and I feel no slowdown. Admittedly, Safari is taking up 300 MB real memory now, but I do have 1.25 GB RAM.
 
i've never had slowdown and i've had over 20 tabs in one window.

then again, new intel mac and 2GB ram :p
 
I regularly have 20+ tabs open in Safari on my Mini 1.25 1GB Ram and it seems fine. What I do wish is that each tab would be a separate thread so no matter if that thread locks, you don't have to force-quit the entire app and lose all the other tabs.
 
I think it may be dependent on the amount of RAM on your system too.

On my G5 2x2GHz with 512 RAM I find that if I open a lot of tabs (as I have lots of documentation pages open at once), and don't use Safari for a while, it can take up to 30 seconds to bring Safari to the foreground - which I'm guessing is due to Safari being paged in from virtual memory. But I've never seen it with another app.

When it happens, I just quit Safari, reload the same pages again and it's fine (for a while).
 
Firefox and opera use the least mem (Firefox uses up some because it cashes the prev pages but u can turn it down/off) Safari is leak city. Once it starts leaking it starts crashing alot. Although, firefox wasn't developed in like, 1 year like safari was.
 
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