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Safari 5 Impressions

Impressions: Faster and more smoother than before. I had to reboot though after the install. Will wait a month or two before reporting back.
 
The update for Tiger users...

It seems like it disconnects from the ISP server and internet whenever a secure connection is attempted (https://). Don't know why. Having a heckuva time sending bug reports as a result. It never did this before the update. After a little while, it spontaneously reconnects (Network Diagnostics show all green indicators). It very maddening. Hope this isn't an issue in Snow Leopard. I am going to miss Tiger. IMO, the most stable version of X so far.:(
 
Im getting loads of instances of crashing, of course each one is being reported to Apple so hopefully wont be long till update comes. Im talking about 3-4 a day compared to 1 every 3-4 months on Safari 4. And also some webpages refuse to load without a 10-15 second delay. No extensions installed etc, was a plain install.
 
Once I got past the CosmoPod problem, I'm having no issues with Safari 5 whatsoever. No crashes, no hangs. I like the new Reader option. I'm glad that they brought back the blue loading bar.... though I might try to change the colour.

I don't know if it's faster ('cause I don't bother timing these things) but it certainly is not slower for me.

Cheers
 
Safari never played well with my carrier's website t-mobile.nl , but Safari 5 just doesnt load the client login page...
 
Macloven said:
could you elaborate on the privileges reset issue. Safari 5 is killing me and would love to go back to 4 for now.

Thanks,

Mark
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as I am new here i dont know the rules on posting links outside but here is basically what I did using Pacifist

opened Pacifist then dropped the 4.05 DMG into it ,top left corner you see install ,click that it will prompt you for permission etc just click and agree and all will install correctly , reboot , repair permissions ,reset safari .

you may want to delete Safari 5 first and anything related to it by using something like iTrash . as a back up install chrome or firefox before doing it.



do a google safari 5 downgrade and you should find this solution .
 
Ilike it, BUT:

How the hell do I turn off the url-suggestions based on page-TITLES?!

I go to the wrong sites all the time now because of this, and I do not think it's an improvement I will adjust to, I want autocomplete of URL's...
 
Been great so far. No crashes, seems snappier, glad to see the blue loading bar back and they finally added the option to open all new links in tabs under the main window. The HTML5 YouTube beta runs amazing on my iMac, only drops the occasional frame, but you have to watch closely to notice. Huge improvement over 4 in this regard.

Also, very glad they kept PPC support in there. :)
 
I'm still dealing the safari can't find server from time to time and today I noticed that mail was cut off for a brief period.
 
after various attempts at getting 5.0 off my system, finally bit the bullet and loaded a recent backup of my entire system going back to 4.0.5.

System once again runs great and hope they figure out why some machines are not working right with 5.0. I love the reader function but couldn't handle the pages that either took forever or never loaded at all.

Strangely, firefox is running better now too so something was interacting with my system in a bad way.

mg
 
Reach said:
Ilike it, BUT:

How the hell do I turn off the url-suggestions based on page-TITLES?!

I go to the wrong sites all the time now because of this, and I do not think it's an improvement I will adjust to, I want autocomplete of URL's...
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I agree! I think this really needs an option to turn it of, after days of giving it a change to see if it's an improvement... it's really not, its most annoying thing in Safari.
 
MichaelTheGeek2 said:
I'm still dealing the safari can't find server from time to time and today I noticed that mail was cut off for a brief period.
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If you mean Apple Mail has been cut off, briefly, then it almost certainly a widespread network problem for you - and external your own set up. Just a coincidence, in other words. If you mean web mail being cut off, then perhaps its Safari (or not).
 
snberk103 said:
If you mean Apple Mail has been cut off, briefly, then it almost certainly a widespread network problem for you - and external your own set up. Just a coincidence, in other words. If you mean web mail being cut off, then perhaps its Safari (or not).
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Or likely an issue with the webkit framework that both Mail and Safari are using.
 
i just discovered that Safari 5.0 and Firefox 3.6.3 don't do the same thing when I click on a particular link in Google Finance to download data from a watchlist.

Safari downloads the file as data.csv.xls which makes no sense to me, I mean a csv is a comma-separated-values file, period, end of discussion.

Firefox does download it as data.csv which is what I expected.

(I prefer that flat file, which is what I discovered a long time ago that Firefox would give me from the link that said "download spreadsheet" so I have always used that one, not the one to the right that says "download Microsoft OFX" -- and I did repeat the download to make sure that I had not inadvertently clicked on the ofx link. But I had not done that, and I got the same result: data.csv.xls FAIL

If I then open the data.csv.xls with the Numbers program from iwork09, it shows the thing as one column, naturally enough, with the commas as part of the data. It also helpfully opens a "problem" window and suggests that the document is tab-delimited and says, heh heh, "the data may look different." Well no sh&t, of course it looks different. So I ditched the ".xls" and reopened it as "data.csv" -- ignoring the warning produced by my renaming activity. Then the file of course opened normally with Numbers, paying attention to commas as delimiters.

Why would Safari decide that I would want a flat file "converted" (and improperly at that) into Excel format? Gawd. Please tell me the Safari programmers are not all working on the Windoze side of their Macbook Pro these days. Not everyone who uses Safari, and Numbers, would necessarily want anything converted to Excel formats. Or was this Google making some kind of assumption based on my browser being Safari? I don't know. I don't care. I was not a happy camper. I want my flat file from that link. And I don't feel like making a two-step process out of it using Safari and a renaming workaround.

Anyway I was just experimenting with Safari 5.0 and almost immediately ran into this little issue, so now I'm back to using Firefox. Sigh. That didn't take long! I didn't even get to play with Reader...
 
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