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Safari 4.0.2

dwright1974 said:
I thought I was the only one who liked the 'Tabs on Top'.

I've searched and searched but doesn't appear to be a way to enable that, which is a shame!

Downloading and will take a look once installed!

- D
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If you really want the tabs on top you can re-download the beta.
 
Tallest Skil said:
You won't be leaving the beta, then.
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Yeah, Apple has forced us to stick in beta. Bastards. Seriously for a company that prides itself on sleekness, I'm so surprised they reversed themselves on this one. Since when do they list to people complaining about feel (hello, 1 button mouse stuck around for forever!).

Oh well. Beta it is.
 
It still can't scroll past animated gifs without grinding to a shuddering halt. Such a nice browser otherwise, but this is a deal-breaker for me.

I'll stick with FireFox until Chrome becomes stable enough.
 
BRLawyer said:
I've discovered that the crashes I was having were caused by outdated plugins or input managers...check them out yourself. .
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I've never knowingly installed any addon for Safari yet it's an unstable, sluggish POS.

What do I have to do to get a browser that works. Use Firefox?
 
I can't tell the difference between this and the previous version. It still performs below my expectations.
 
Gee, big deal. Adding a digit in the end of the version number does not make Safari less of a joke that it is.
 
marioman38 said:
Requires 10.5.7? :(

Too lazy to upgrade from 10.5.6 and restart, I'll stick with Safari 3 for now.
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Taking "lazy" to the next level! :p ;)

bed said:
I agree its not purple, but I'd say more peachy than tangerine.
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Hmm… yea, definitely "peachy" :cool:

… I'm glad they didn't make it pink though. ;)

… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …

And to those who are still wondering:

- If it looks like a dog, quacks like dog, smells like a dog, and flies like a dog… What is it? ;)
 
johnny Ola said:
It still can't scroll past animated gifs without grinding to a shuddering halt. Such a nice browser otherwise, but this is a deal-breaker for me.

I'll stick with FireFox until Chrome becomes stable enough.
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Can you give an example page, cause I specifically looked for animated gifs and can't make halt or stutter or even spike cpu.
 
Matthew Yohe said:
Right, but the question is why are you staring at the spinning cog? You can't look at a page before it is finished?

This is why the new method is brilliant.

A page load in Safari 4 looks like this:
1) Safari downloads content from the network, and you get the blue "Loading..." box.

2) Safari has now downloaded enough images, HTML, CSS etc to begin displaying the page, so it does so, and then fades the Loading... box to grey

*** This is where your eyes should stop looking at the loading box/spinning wheel, and begin looking at the page ***

3) The page continues to load, and literally becomes the 'progress bar' for the site.

4) Safari finishes downloading, and displays the entire page, of which you are already looking at.


Now, why would you wait till step 4 before you even start looking at the page?
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I don't wait. However, linear or not ... I prefer to know whether the page I've visited has actually finished loading (ads annoy the hell out of me .. they are often the last to finish loading in my experience). I prefer the bar in URL field method of representing this fact - over a spinning jagged wheel. YMMV.
 
xUKHCx said:
Warning can cause Safari to crash

Remove the spaces

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Elastic_collision

If you scroll around the page and then go back up to the top it causes my Safari to 100% and sometimes stops responding.
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Wowsers! I thought nothing was happening, until I scrolled back to the top. Didn't like that for sure. Nothing crashed, but it was unresponsive twice for something like 10 seconds at a time. Never noticed this before, very nasty.
 
mrkgoo said:
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kewl, I tried dragging the new tabs button from view->customize toolbar onto the one on the menu bar and it vanished!
 
I never downloaded Safari 4 beta - does anybody have any screen shots of this being able to put tabs on top you're talking about?

I do wish the old blue status/loading bar would return - the little box in the right of the address bar is not an improvement...
 
My experience...

It seems like the updated Safari just plain works faster! I was getting TONS of delays out of Yahoo and now it's snappy. I love that! Good update Apple!
 
Again I truly feel for the PPC users out there. On my Quicksilver Safari 4 got from slow to slower.

Apple truly does NOT know how to handle Flash and GIFs inside of the browser.

How come when you watch a Flash video in Opera the CPU usage is around 55% and when you watch the very same video in Safari the usage jumps to 113%?

It's sloppiness. Apple should not be about sloppiness but about quality and speed. Unfortunately Safari 4 displays litle of these two critical features.
 
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