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New Safari Seeds Continue Performance Improvements, Bug Fixes
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It's possible that Saft is doing it but I doubt it (it's no where in preferences).My 3.0.4 doesn't do that.
I wish Apple would put "new tab" and "new window" buttons in the toolbar. Come on Apple - this is not the user-friendly browser that you are touting.
Saft is your friend. Totally worth $12.
Also, Safari is rock solid for me as well. In fact, it runs the best out of any browser on my PB.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_2; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.12)
Safari is zippping along now. Noticeable difference.
Safari is zippping along now. Noticeable difference.
There are a few minor features I'd like in Safari, but it's pretty much the only browser I use anymore. Firefox is too heavy. Minimal is good.
SAfari will not work with Wachovia
www.wachovia.com will not work with international wire transfers
www.dhl.com will not work with international shipments
movies will not work at www.jpost.com and haaretz.com
www.fedex.com will not work with international shipments
www.wachovia.com will not work with international wire transfers
www.dhl.com will not work with international shipments
movies will not work at www.jpost.com and haaretz.com
www.fedex.com will not work with international shipments
Still doesn't fix the problem I'm seeing... I have a div, position:absolute, and a table within that div, position:absolute;margin 0 auto. I expect the table to be centered in the div, and Safari pushes it to the left hand side... Firefox handles it correctly.
I can use position:relative on the table, and Safari centers it, but then Firefox messes up the div dimensions on the containing div.
Ugh.
I can use position:relative on the table, and Safari centers it, but then Firefox messes up the div dimensions on the containing div.
Ugh.
Safari on 10.5.2 and the cache
It appears that since 10.5.2, Safari is not using the Cache located in ~/Library/Caches/
Instead, it is using a new instance located in /private/var/folders, while the old one just sits there.
The 1st 3.1 seed was doing the same thing. I'll see if this new seed also does it. It appears it may be a system-wide CacheDB problem in 10.5.2.
It appears that since 10.5.2, Safari is not using the Cache located in ~/Library/Caches/
Instead, it is using a new instance located in /private/var/folders, while the old one just sits there.
The 1st 3.1 seed was doing the same thing. I'll see if this new seed also does it. It appears it may be a system-wide CacheDB problem in 10.5.2.
I completely disagree on that! Safari is an ok browser and apple "fixed" finder in Leopard. By far the worst software on OSX is iTunes! It looks old, has horrid UI and is very unstable. When will apple let up have WMP 11 for the mac. IT JUST WORKS BETTER...
Safari and stability
One what occasions or what type of website does Safari crash? I've had no issues in that department so far, even the newest release is okay. The only problem I've had is that I couldn't access my bank's online banking facility for a bit, but they've updated their systems to allow Safari 3.0.4 to access it, and it has been fine since.
I'm just curious, as Safari works for me, leaves me alone, and therefore makes me a happy user, but always interested in hearing what issues others have.
One what occasions or what type of website does Safari crash? I've had no issues in that department so far, even the newest release is okay. The only problem I've had is that I couldn't access my bank's online banking facility for a bit, but they've updated their systems to allow Safari 3.0.4 to access it, and it has been fine since.
I'm just curious, as Safari works for me, leaves me alone, and therefore makes me a happy user, but always interested in hearing what issues others have.
WOW, I couldn't disagree with you more!!! I have been a heavy iTunes user for many years and I literally have NEVER had it crash before. I love the UI especially with Cover Flow which is BEAUTIFUL compared to all other media apps and I think it's success and reputation of simplicity support my argument as well. I also think adding WMP 11 would be a very stupid decision business wise.
Back on topic, so nobody is even mentioning the fishing problems here? I love Safari but that needs added. Any chance that with all the reports talking about that just now that it could make it into the next update, or would it be a while?
And I also wanna know the origin of the snappy joke lol!
Somebody else might know better, but to the best of my knowledge it's just one of those annoying comments that came with every update. I think the origins are much the same as "Powerbook G5 Tuesday" and "Where's the beef?": mass adoption through repetition.
People don't seem to understand that the joke isn't funny anymore. People learn to stop repeating laugh lines when people stop laughing, but since we're all in different rooms I suspect the commenters imagine to themselves that every reference to "teh [sic] snappy" has half the Mac loving world rolling in their desk chairs and drooling Doritos.
How's the stability on that-- what I've been hearing is that it's pretty crash happy its own self...
Actually, the honor of the worst software on OS X goes to iCal.
But you are correct that Safari needs some serious bug fixing. Speed improvements are most welcome too, but the bug fixing is long overdue.
What kind of bugs are there? Any that can be easily recreated?
I cant actually think if any that come to mind other than the memory leak.
I cant actually think if any that come to mind other than the memory leak.
Good
I use Safari all the time, but i do have problems with it in gmail, and facebook occasionally, so hopefully this will fix that.
I find it is the most prone app to crash for me, but i guess it's always open so it has more opportunity to crash.
I use Safari all the time, but i do have problems with it in gmail, and facebook occasionally, so hopefully this will fix that.
I find it is the most prone app to crash for me, but i guess it's always open so it has more opportunity to crash.
Just went and downloaded it out of curiosity-- you're right much cleaner. Launches faster now too. Scrolling behavior is a bit funky, but that'll get cleaned up...
Ditto here. Apart from a few MS-inspired incompatibilities for some sites and the ridiculous CPU-load of Flash animations, Safari is better and faster than anything else.
i use to really love Safari, but then it seems that it started leaking memory like crazy at some point. i was told the source of the memory leak is Adobe's Flash Plugin... anyone else have any info on that? it's awful that Safari (being the only open app) often triples the amount of active memory on my system if it's open for a few hours...
Or even better - Cmd+T, type address, enter
I like Safari and I have used it ever since I got my Mac. Nothing wrong with Firefox, which I use at work on my Windows PC (until our new parent company soon locks down our desktops and forces us to use IE
) but I can't see its advantages on Mac OS X - it just feels too Windows-like, including the way it renders pages.Safari is by-and-large fairly fast (except where Javascript or Flash are involved) and stable on my PowerBook, and I think it is simple, elegant and pretty too. However, any further performance boosts (on top of the gradual increase in snappiness over the years) will be welcome.