Safari Performance Lion vs. SL

IMO it feels faster when it works but crashes more and uses A LOT RAM. I switched back to Chrome.
 
On my system here, safari has about 10 Tabs open is running for a few hours now and uses just about 380mb. I think that is okay.
Safari 5.1 on Lion is way faster than Safari on Snow Leopard. There is no doubt.
 
what's also pretty odd is that when i am just swiping back a few pages using that new graphical sliding pages gesture, I can see the CPU of my i5 peak to well above 50% every time i go back or forth a page, never knew just going back a page was such a CPU intensive operation.

going back a page in chrome (although not animated) doesn't make a visible CPU spike in the system monitor at all. strange?!
 
stefan1975 said:
what's also pretty odd is that when i am just swiping back a few pages using that new graphical sliding pages gesture, I can see the CPU of my i5 peak to well above 50% every time i go back or forth a page, never knew just going back a page was such a CPU intensive operation.

going back a page in chrome (although not animated) doesn't make a visible CPU spike in the system monitor at all. strange?!
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Its because Safari is reloading the page after you swiped back. It is not the animation. Every page safari is loading uses about 30%-50% of your CPU. I tried it in Chrome and it uses about the same amount of the CPU.
 
I'm loving Safari in Lion. Fast, smooth, no lockups. I have plenty of RAM so I don't care about that.
 
Just downloaded Lion, and I can honestly say that Safari is much faster. Web pages load a lot quicker than they used to. No more beach balling either.
 
markrox7 said:
How does Safari in Lion (5.1) stack up to Safari in SL (5.0.5)?
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I have Safari 5.1 in SL... Should I be able to have this? I just got a software update for this and iTunes 10.4. I can say that Safari 5.1 in SL is heaps faster than 5.0.5. Pages seem to load faster but I think 5.1 is taking a page from chrome's setup and using separate tasks for fetching and web content. It seems to work.

FWIW, I do plan on upgrading from SL to Lion, just searching for some replacements for ppc apps.
 
I find that lion is faster. Boot up is a little slower, but apps open very fast and safari doesn't crash every time you look at it wrong:D
 
A lot faster also MORE responsible. In SL the Safari 5.1 would still freeze around.

The only think I still want is Middle Mouse Click close tab!!!!
I hate pointing at the close button [x] box.... or to lift my second lazy hands and press Command+W.
 
Lion makes my Safari lock up a lot more, sometimes for 20 seconds at a time. Usually when flash or a plugin is involved. Nevertheless, Snow Leopard never did that...
 
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