Safari... So buggy!

[bit density]

It may be a safari bug...

But it is symptomatic of a failing network event. The bug is that it times out when it shouldn't or retry when it should.

However, the first choice is to get more ram. One of the leading causes is that you are out of ram, this can happen when you either don't start with enough, or you have too much open, especially quicktime/flash.

The other thing to try is to go to OpenDNS, and change your network settings to them. They tend to be much faster and work better than most DNS servers that are pitched up with your standard DHCP request.

 

[yellow]

You know.. I seem to remember a similar problem when Apple released Safari 2.x.

 

[acfusion29]

But it is symptomatic of a failing network event. The bug is that it times out when it shouldn't or retry when it should.

However, the first choice is to get more ram. One of the leading causes is that you are out of ram, this can happen when you either don't start with enough, or you have too much open, especially quicktime/flash.

The other thing to try is to go to OpenDNS, and change your network settings to them. They tend to be much faster and work better than most DNS servers that are pitched up with your standard DHCP request.

Alright, thanks.

I did that. Added some numbers to the DNS thingy in the network settings.

Will keep you guys updated if it worked or not

 

[MacGuffin]

It's quite a common issue, and Tiger had its own issue with Safari doing the same thing. Apple fixed it in due time, but it seems to be back in Leopard.

Um, the problem still exists in 10.4.11.

 

[acfusion29]

Well, ever since doing that stuff on OpenDNS.com, everythings been fine.

Thanks for the help guys!

 

[alex.d]

k so i have the same problem

does the opendns site help it i'm not familiar with settings with the routers, i have a wireless cable internet and dsl

 

[Amdahl]

does the opendns site help it i'm not familiar with settings with the routers, i have a wireless cable internet and dsl

No, it is a bug in the OS or Safari.

 

[alex.d]

so how do you fix the bug in the os??

 

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"We" don't. But you can always submit bug reports (a.k.a., "Feedback") to Apple and hope for the best.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

 

[Scalfani]

Safari has crashed about 20 times for me in the past 2 days. I am not exaggerating.

It has crashed with my schools website library journal searches and webmail account login.

I really like Safari, but the new 10.5.1 security update really seemed to screw things up for me.

My other main gripe with safari is that it can't handle file formats it is not familiar with. I'll give two examples: I had to download a site.prf file to configure scifinder scholar (a science search engine). Safari kept making it a .txt file. And it was not usable. Firefox had no problems. And example two is when downloading chemical crystallographic .cif files, it does the same thing. It converts it to some weird .txt file format. I have left feedback about this to Apple, and I am actually not sure if this problem has been fixed or not because I haven;t used one of these file formats in about a month.

 

[Spliff]

I find Safari buggy too. It used to be my browser of choice due to performance, I found it fastest to launch and load pages. But not being able to login to my mail.yahoo.ca account (whenever I enter in my username/password) and click [Login] it just brings me back to the login page with the user info blanked) and I also have problems with Gmail. If I am logged into Gmail, and then close my MBP case, then come back to my browser (with Gmail still open), I cannot click on anything on that page (it is frozen). I have to click the refresh button on the browser or re-click the bookmark. I have also experienced problems with my bank.

I wonder if it's an SSL issue?

 

[benpatient]

Just to add to the conversation and rule out some of the possible causes:

I'm having terrible problems getting Safari to load things on two different machines running 10.4.11.

MacBook with 2.5gb of RAM, safari 3.0.4

Mac Pro with 7gb of RAM, safari 3.0.4

One is at home connected directly to a router and a cable modem.

One is at work on a big windows-centric network.

Both exhibit these huge delays in safari.

If I run XP in Parallels on the Mac Pro, IE loads the same pages very quickly. When it is really slow, I can do an image search on google in safari, then I open parallels, boot windows, log in, open IE and get the same page to completely load before safari is done loading the thumbnails. that means it isn't a hardware problem and it isn't a google problem and it isn't an isp problem. It is either an OS X problem that only affects apple code, or it is a safari problem. I really like the safari interface, but I've had to basically give it up because it sometimes isn't usable.

I've been submitting reports to apple about this for almost a year now. It was an issue in safari 2. it's still an issue in safari 3, which is weird because it was supposedly a complete re-write "from the ground up." It's still an issue in leopard, too, apparently, and that's a big fat bummer.

my coworkers make fun of my mac pro because it takes so much longer to open gmail than their POS dell celeron boxes from 2002 with 15" CRTs do. There's no point in explaining to them that you can encode video at faster-than-real-time speeds while burning a CD and rasterizing PDFs into photoshop documents if you can't get a webmail application to load your inbox before it times out.