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Mac OS X Lion's Safari is Snappier and More Stable Thanks to WebKit2
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I never had issue with flash for two years on my Mac until I updated from Flash that came with Leopard. I upgraded to 10.1 and added Click-to-Flash and I started have lots of crashes, than upgraded to 10.2 and now beside the crashes I have occasional video stuttering or bitcrushed audio.
Safari is my favorite browser ever.
Remember that Chromium is open source in the first place and Google contributes a lot to webkit.
Also, Apple did worked against pretty much all the Webkit community by introducing Webkit2, remember. I don't think all that flips the thing on its head at all...
You're aware that any OS with protected memory (read: nearly all of them these days) has the same benefits, right? It's nothing unique to Mac OS X at all.That's why Macs are so cool to begin with, when a program crashes, only that program crashes. Now, only a portion of the program will crash? GO
That said, Safari 5.1 is still fairy buggy for me, but it, of course, will get better with each subsequent Lion build. I can't say it feels much quicker to me than Safari on Snow Leopard, but I haven't run any official benchmarks so I really wouldn't know for sure.
Safari is running great on my Mac. Running Lion.
Only 1 'force quit' moment, but that was due to me opening my entire 'Misc' bookmark bar folder by mistake!
Only 1 'force quit' moment, but that was due to me opening my entire 'Misc' bookmark bar folder by mistake!
I never got to understand speed on browser, that's why I never jumped to Chrome or Firefox. I like the polished look of Safari and the in-built PDF reader, but to be honest I have no idea of what feature the competitors offer in their browser - I never got past the fact that I don't like the interface, and that was about it for me.
It seems like Safari eats up a lot of RAM no matter what. I have click2flash installed so don't think it would be flash related. Right now with 6 tabs open in Safari and 6 open in Chrome, not the same tabs though, Safari takes up 804mb vs Chrome's 174mb.
I want to use Safari because it does seem to crash less than Chrome (for me) and seems faster from the start, but after time it starts eating up so much RAM it isn't useful.
I want to use Safari because it does seem to crash less than Chrome (for me) and seems faster from the start, but after time it starts eating up so much RAM it isn't useful.
I had all kinds of problems with Safari crashing and being a real PITA AFTER I followed Daring Fireball's suggestion to strip flash out entirely and only run it in Chrome.
After lots of lagging and locking up and crashing, I switched to Chrome entirely, and I've been using that for months now. I love the experience in Safari, but Chrome just seems so much faster. I'll look forward to the experience of Safari with Lion and hope it's an improvement.
After lots of lagging and locking up and crashing, I switched to Chrome entirely, and I've been using that for months now. I love the experience in Safari, but Chrome just seems so much faster. I'll look forward to the experience of Safari with Lion and hope it's an improvement.
It better be "snappy" in the final release.
I can relate my experience with Safari on OS X with Internet Explorer 7-8 on Windows XP. Chrome is a lot more stable on my Mac, but the UI is just ugly, in my opinion.
Come on Apple; give me Chrome's stability and the polished interface in the final release!
I can relate my experience with Safari on OS X with Internet Explorer 7-8 on Windows XP. Chrome is a lot more stable on my Mac, but the UI is just ugly, in my opinion.
Come on Apple; give me Chrome's stability and the polished interface in the final release!
Completely agreed. Bring back Safari 4 Beta's implementation too! It was by far the best of all the browsers.
