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Mac OS X Lion's Safari is Snappier and More Stable Thanks to WebKit2
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The current version of safari on Snow Leopard has a problem with youtube. Suddenly, the ability to view videos went away to be replaced with a black box. Firefox has no such problem. The solution was to switch from 64 to 32bit mode for safari. Took some time to find that solution.
Hahahaha... This is SO epic.
I just started Safari running 10.7 Lion and loaded up all my 'Tech Pages'.
Normally Safari would just Beachball for several seconds before I could even select individual tabs.
Now... with 10.7 however, it worked flawlessly. So I was litterally shouting 'woohoo... Safari is FINALLY faster and doesn't lag'.
5 seconds later... when all tabs had loaded... the first thing I read was THIS headline on Macrumors.
This is what I call epic coincidence
Ohh and also:
If you had several tabs open... say 6... and you saw something in tab 1 and opened the link in a NEW tab. The old Safari used to open it as the very last tab. i.e. tab 7 in this example. Now it opens it directly behind the current one.
So... if you are in tab 1 and open a link in a new tab... it is automatically opened as tab 2.
FINALLY !!!
I just started Safari running 10.7 Lion and loaded up all my 'Tech Pages'.
Normally Safari would just Beachball for several seconds before I could even select individual tabs.
Now... with 10.7 however, it worked flawlessly. So I was litterally shouting 'woohoo... Safari is FINALLY faster and doesn't lag'.
5 seconds later... when all tabs had loaded... the first thing I read was THIS headline on Macrumors.
This is what I call epic coincidence
Ohh and also:
If you had several tabs open... say 6... and you saw something in tab 1 and opened the link in a NEW tab. The old Safari used to open it as the very last tab. i.e. tab 7 in this example. Now it opens it directly behind the current one.
So... if you are in tab 1 and open a link in a new tab... it is automatically opened as tab 2.
FINALLY !!!
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100% agree!
Tabs on the top is what the World want!
100% agree!
Tabs on the top is what the World want!
Lol
I love this! Why does this joke never get old?
[said in valley girl voice]Like, I'm so over this 32 bit this or 64 bit that, can't they, like, just come in one size? 64 bit, I mean, isn't that, like, a lot? I mean, really.
I love this! Why does this joke never get old?
[said in valley girl voice]Like, I'm so over this 32 bit this or 64 bit that, can't they, like, just come in one size? 64 bit, I mean, isn't that, like, a lot? I mean, really.
I use Chrome not only cause its fast but also I like the consistency using it between my Mac and my PC. Safari on PC just never appealed to me.
Safari SUCKS. It bombs two or three times a day here. Usually ads crash it. When more than 4 tabs are going and one gets a complex Flash-type ad.... BOOM! Everything freezes and disappears. Annoying. Started for me with Snow Leoptard.
The fact that Google took webkit and added functionality in a private way is what made me realize they're un-contributing zeros!
Apple does most of the developing on webkit then allows everybody (including their concurrents) to use it so finally we were able to have decent web browsers that would help adoption of the latest HTML standards, but you won't see any Google fan acknowledge that.
Apple does most of the developing on webkit then allows everybody (including their concurrents) to use it so finally we were able to have decent web browsers that would help adoption of the latest HTML standards, but you won't see any Google fan acknowledge that.
completeness...
And IE8 was already running with a similar sandboxing model when it showed up in Chrome.
And IE8 was already running with a similar sandboxing model when it showed up in Chrome.
Wow, the new Safari looks awesome. I can finally ditch Chrome!
It handels it better than Chrome does. At least when pressing Cmd+H to hide in Safari (with flash content in the front-most window) it'll hide the application, whereas in Chrome Cmd+H does nothing if flash is in the front-most window. It's been an unresolved bug forever now.
It handels it better than Chrome does. At least when pressing Cmd+H to hide in Safari (with flash content in the front-most window) it'll hide the application, whereas in Chrome Cmd+H does nothing if flash is in the front-most window. It's been an unresolved bug forever now.
Really? Odd. I don't doubt it, although I've run Safari on numerous Mac's, and many hackint0shes with no issues. In fact, in almost all of the speed tests/etc I've conducted between Safari, Chrome, Friefox, etc. Safari comes out the winner.
Dumb question as I'm certain you know exactly what you're doing, but are there any third party plug-ins/extensions that may be the culprit?
When iTunes 10 was released, I had to weed through 130 Quicktime codecs as one or more of them caused videos in iTunes to crash. Turns out it was Divx.
delete some stuff in your Internet Plug-ins folder http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/safariplugin.htm
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I can go back through, but I don't add a lot of stuff to my Safari. Unless it came with it, I don't have it aside from updating Flash and WMV drivers when available.
It could be one of those. Wouldn't surprise me. I've been suspecting Flash, since the Flash-type ads that load are what do the crashing (as far as I could tell so far for the past year). Something overloads after enough stuff is open and it tanks the program. Every other program on here is extremely stable. Nothing else crashes any more.
EDIT: Yeah, I got off my ass and deleted the FLASH and WMV plug-ins and the problem hasn't arrived with 20 tabs going and lots of ads and video running. It was probably one of those.
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I use ClickToFlash to block flash and very rarely click to run anything flash. Safari accounts for about 90% of my crashes.
no.
agree, that bugged me in the old one
you are not the world. tabs on top is a terrible idea. use chrome if you want that don't try and get them to wreck safari for it
Yeah... after TiBook, BlackBook and the likes... THIS is the future.
Like the name... Thunderbook... hmmm
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Love the title and I love the progress that is being made with Safari.
Good stuff!
Love the title and I love the progress that is being made with Safari.
Good stuff!
johnnyturbouk
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being a recent windows convert - i was never to inclined in using safari - only for taking things of my iphone for a work app
since using nd loving os 10.6 - i still can't get into safari - use only to browse apple site - chrome does indeed destroy it in every way
but im so happy and comfortable with firefox, just because ive been using exclusively for years - lovin chrome tho
but i would rate safari lower than microsoft internet explorer even!
soory - but even apple may of found it's achillies!
as for the new faster vsn in lion - well, lion truly does sound amazing; but it would take a lot more than being stable and functional in comparison to firefox and chrome for me to convert - i just do not find the layout and ease of use anywhere near firefox - yes its prettier but thats it
since using nd loving os 10.6 - i still can't get into safari - use only to browse apple site - chrome does indeed destroy it in every way
but im so happy and comfortable with firefox, just because ive been using exclusively for years - lovin chrome tho
but i would rate safari lower than microsoft internet explorer even!
soory - but even apple may of found it's achillies!
as for the new faster vsn in lion - well, lion truly does sound amazing; but it would take a lot more than being stable and functional in comparison to firefox and chrome for me to convert - i just do not find the layout and ease of use anywhere near firefox - yes its prettier but thats it