Safari 5.1.1 Brings Up to 13% Improvement in JavaScript Performance

[CK1Czar]

Using Safari forced me to upgrade my RAM. Let's hope it's much better now, but the reloading pages is getting annoying

 

[softwareguy256]

Just upgraded . Feel's a bit snappier scrolling up and down. Still stutters when clicking new links and sometimes while typing. Hoping it can keep mem footprint under 768 MB, preferably under 500 MB with only 2 tabs, too early to tell.

 

[quickmac]

There is some noticeable improvement in Safari loading times, decrease in beach balls of death, and overall a snappier feel. However RAM usage still seems a bit high and only a slight freeing up of RAM with the 10.7.2 update. Its an improvement but I still ordered a RAM upgrade to double my RAM to 8GB to really get this thing flying smoothly.

I often run Pages, iTunes, and Safari together, before Lion I regularly had 2 GB or more of free RAM running these programs together. After Lion 10.7.1 I regularly had less than 200MB of RAM free and had seen it dipping as low as 17MB of Ram free.

After Lion 10.7.2 the lowest the free RAM has dipped is about 75MB of RAM and regularly stays just above 350MB of RAM free. Closing Safari makes it jump to nearly 1.75GB free.

So adding 4 more GB of RAM should really speed things up.

 

[softwareguy256]

been a couple of hours... impressed with the patch. When I close all my tabs safari web content goes to 10 MB. 5.1 had 500MBs sometimes with no windows open!! Steve Jobs would be proud.

 

[macUser2007]

Safari's overall speed still sucks compared to Chrome and Firefox, and even IE9.

And it's the most crash-prone browser of them all, particularly with JavaScript, but with everything else, too.

And it's the bigest resource hog, too.

Too bad, because it has by far the best History feature of them all.

 

[Knuthf]

I've used the Safari 5.1 fiasco to familiarize myself with the other browsers out there. I'm using Firefox 6 as my default browser now. I do miss Safari's autofill. The drop down menu of choices is a bit slower to use most of the time.

Installing Chrome allowed me to delete the Flash plug-in from my system, but I do not want Google tracking everything I do on the web so I only use Chrome when I absolutely need Flash support and fortunately that's not very often.

Did you ever considered a browser that is not invented in the US?
And has all the bells and whistles you can dream of? - Use Opera!
Its free, it has a small memory footprint and is fast.