Safari makes me angry

Doesn't address your specific question-- but I just swap between Camino and Safari; if either one misbehaves, I go to the other. It is annoying, but I think it's impressive that you've found even a temporary solution.

er... Where is this 'icons folder' you speak of?

 

This happens to me occasionally but I don't get rid of the icons.

Instead, I go into preferences and check that I'm not asking Safari to remember the contents of every form (or at least delete some of them). Seems to make a big difference in speed...

 

Possibly a stupid suggestion:

What if you could put some kind of lock or lack of write permission on the Icons folder so that it could never fill up with junk?

 

No offense but what did that have to do with what I said?

If you could somehow restrict write access on that folder, none of those other folders could be placed there at all.

 

Wanted to make sure I wasn't coming off as a jerk.

 

I just reset Safari. It's probably overkill but it gets things running smoothly again. One of my biggest problems with Safari is that it sometimes starts getting a bit sloppy when it comes to highlighting links I've already been to. It gets pretty frustrating clicking on links only to realise I'd just been there.

 

Have you tried using Private Browsing?

 

safari bites plain and simple. ive cleaned the cache and done every trick in the book and still its crap. internet did kill the mac back in the day and now its the browser that is finishing the job

 

Buddha says, "The only thing to make you angry, is you."


ps. I love Safari. All is good in the world.

 

All you have to do is make the folder read only. You can more than likely do this in the get info dialog but even from the command line using chmod (do man chmod for information).

 

At this moment in time the release version of Safari is full of memory leaks, unoptimised code and other bad stuff! If you don't mind living on the bleeding edge build your own WebKit. It's much faster and does not slow down nearly as badly!

Memory Leaks Update
Getting WebKit

 

I've ditched Safari and started using Firefox 1.5 beta. Much better and it doesn't take forever to shut.

 

OS/X is so great....and we have to put up with this ineptness? What gives? You think they would be able to put a browser together that would be sufficient for daily use, instead of 'swapping from one browser to another". Highly unacceptable for an OS as good as this is.

 

I'd say a lot of the problems stem from IE and the way it doesn't actually comply to any standards except it's own. Therefore both Safari and Firefox have to find ways to try and do things similarily, leading to problems. Anyway its only getting better.

And personally, i'd prefer a "slow" browser like safari instead of a "gives you tonnes of viruses and adware" browser like IE