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Safari 4 Tops 11 Million Downloads in First Three Days

Okay, something (kind of) weird... maybe it's just me but...

On Safari 4, I turn on "private browsing" and I log-in to yahoo (or any other site I've already visited and logged-in with Safari 3).

Then, I log-out and quit.

Then I reopen Safari (with "private browsing" on or off), then I visit one of the websites I visited while in "private browsing" mode, I often end up as already logged-in (and no, I do not check the "remember me" boxes)...

weird...
 
Eidorian said:
Safari 4 does crash more gracefully when it does. I haven't had it lock my system yet requiring a reboot. Not to mention it'll skip the crash report tool as well.
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Safari 4 hasn't crashed a SINGLE time for me, let alone making me reboot the machine (actually I've never had it make me reboot my Mac)...you must be talking about Windows, right? :rolleyes:
 
BRLawyer said:
Safari 4 hasn't crashed a SINGLE time for me, let alone making me reboot the machine (actually I've never had it make me reboot my Mac)...you must be talking about Windows, right? :rolleyes:
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I haven't had a browser take down my operating system in Windows since IE 6 and Windows XP pre-SP2.

Sadly Safari and FireFox are horrifically prone to locking a machine and rendering Force Quit useless as well under OS X due to plug-in weirdness in most cases. Nothing gets written to log and you have to hold down the power button to recover.

Place this problem up there with randomly waking Macbooks.
 
Thus my post.

geenosr said:
wizard said:
That is on my early 2008 MBP. I'm not running a lot of extensions or other crap but it works SNAPPY!


Wizard-Dave stole my thunder...I think it's SNAPPY too! (I couldn't believe it took 80 posts to get a snappy) Anyway I am using Safari 4 on both MS and OSX in my house and I really like it a lot. It has had a few crashes on my XP machine, but works like a charm on everything else. When all the add-ons come to S4 like FF I'll jump full time. I am used to all my FF do-dads, so I'll be mainly using it....but I do like S4.
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I was worried about the lack of a snappy this my post. ;)

Seriously though so far it has all been good.


Dave
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mdriftmeyer said:
Better yet, those web sites can hire developers who write Javascript that have zero defects.
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Regardless of whether the page has bugs in the text code, a browser should not be crashable that way--and certainly not commonly. It should gracefully tolerate bad JS without crashing the rest of the browser. And I'm skeptical that bad JS is the cause anyway: I visit the same page again, do the same thing, and it's fine.
 
dreadfully slow in Windows XP

I've been trying out Safari 4 in Windows XP (running in VM Fusion) and it's been extremely slow and unresponsive. Top Sites take ages to render, delete etc, and the Edit/Done button disappears from the bottom left corner. Plus the first Top Site (top left) doesn't render properly, with a vertical strip missing from the page image.

Is anyone else seeing this in XP (in VM Fusion, or native)?
 
It makes me wonder as to why Europeans are not getting after Apple's automatic upload in antitrust action as they do to Windows.
...too small to skin and fry?
 
One thing I like about Firefox is if you close the browser or if it crashes, it saves all you tabs so when you come back, you can resume where you left off. I've noticed Safari doesn't do this, am I doing something wrong?
 
o9ski said:
It makes me wonder as to why Europeans are not getting after Apple's automatic upload in antitrust action as they do to Windows.
...too small to skin and fry?
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What the heck are you talking about?

Eidorian said:
You can do the same in Safari but it's not automatic.
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How you turn it on?

immaculate said:
I've been trying out Safari 4 in Windows XP (running in VM Fusion) and it's been extremely slow and unresponsive. Top Sites take ages to render, delete etc, and the Edit/Done button disappears from the bottom left corner. Plus the first Top Site (top left) doesn't render properly, with a vertical strip missing from the page image.

Is anyone else seeing this in XP (in VM Fusion, or native)?
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I'm using it on an XP laptop and it's just a lil faster than Firefox, some cases it even seems slower.
 
o9ski said:
It makes me wonder as to why Europeans are not getting after Apple's automatic upload in antitrust action as they do to Windows.
...too small to skin and fry?
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Maybe because the browser isn't attached to the OS like on Windows?
 
i turned on my windows machine today and i got notified from apple software update to update itunes and safari 4. Safari 4 is checked. I think apple wants to force people to do the update. Wonder why the number of downloads is so high.
 
MacLover4491 said:
i turned on my windows machine today and i got notified from apple software update to update itunes and safari 4. Safari 4 is checked. I think apple wants to force people to do the update. Wonder why the number of downloads is so high.
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Apple did separate those updates but they are checked by default.
 
cocky jeremy said:
If you're on Winblows, you probably need a real machine.
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What, like an iMac or a mini? Laptop components passed off as desktop? Windows will give you far more machine for your money, it just won't qualify as a "style accessory".
 
krye said:
Microsoft: eat it.
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What a laugh. Their browser will still be default on 90% of machines out there, and they'll still have about 70% of the browser share whether Safari is faster or not.

I like the speed of the new Safari, but Jesus are Apple ignorant when it comes to browsers. I have to use Onyx to make sure it opens links consistently in tabs not windows. It won't open my previous tabs by default when I open it, and when I do go to History to reopen them, it doesn't remember the history within those tabs. I can't click back to see the previous page, because as far as Safari is concerned, there is no page to go back to.

When you select text and choose search it insists on opening the search in the same tab, and if you select a link, you can't search for the text of the link, or even copy the text of that link.

And just to add my voice here, tabs on top were a great feature, giving in to the tabs below crowd showed lack of balls.

Chrome had a huge number of downloads in its first few days, its only at 2% share now. Thats pretty good, but nothing like the share it would have had if its initial download rate had continued.
 
yeah, IE was downloaded 500 million times the first day Micorsoft bundled it as update!.

lol, Monopoly is fun, isn't it?
 
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