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Why does Safari suck and why hasent Apple fixed it?

PowerFullMac

PowerFullMac

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Yes, I said it, Safari sucks. it hogs your memory and it's unsecure.

Why havent Apple fixed it? Same reason they havent put MMS on the iPhone; they dont care about their customers.

They advertise a secure OS and it is but why then put such a horrible browser on it? If I had 1p for every pop-up that got past the Safari pop-up blocker I would have enough money to fix the financial crisis!!! :eek:

If you are using Safari now with out a third party pop-up blocker, people, go to http://www.allsp.com and click at least one link (Season 12, for example) or in fact, just leave it, and tell me how many pop-ups you get.

I find it amazing that Apple has such spent such a long time building OS X to be so secure and advanced but yet put such a crappy unsecure browser that ends up using all your RAM.
 
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Safari works perfectly fine for me, and I'm using on average around 16 hours a day, every day. I've rarely had a pop-up, using Safari's standard blocker. It doesn't hog resources.... it's "snappy!" Thanks for the example site. I went there and clicked "Season Twelve". Zero pop-ups.
 
ggjstudios said:
Safari works perfectly fine for me, and I'm using on average around 16 hours a day, every day. I've rarely had a pop-up, using Safari's standard blocker. It doesn't hog resources.... it's "snappy!" Thanks for the example site. I went there and clicked "Season Twelve". Zero pop-ups.
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Well that's odd, I get pop-ups in Safari whenever I use that site and as for it being snappy I did a bit of research and I found that the whole "Safari eats your system" thing is a known problem, there is a thread about it here.

EDIT: If you think you didnt get a pop-up, check Expose.
 
safari is snappier than browsers that advertise themselfs as 'light' browsers with no features just speed.

whats probably giving you all those popups is adware.
download macscan and get rid of it all!
 
yoyo5280 said:
safari is snappier than browsers that advertise themselfs as 'light' browsers with no features just speed.

whats probably giving you all those popups is adware.
download macscan and get rid of it all!
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Adware on a Mac? Pah!

The pop-ups are only on certain sites so its nothing on my Mac.

Try going to http://www.allsp.com, click Season 12 or any other season really then check Expose (F3 by default), there will be another window with advertising in it!
 
PowerFullMac said:
Well that's odd, I get pop-ups in Safari whenever I use that site and as for it being snappy I did a bit of research and I found that the whole "Safari eats your system" thing is a known problem, there is a thread about it here.

EDIT: If you think you didnt get a pop-up, check Expose.
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Checking with Expose is a no-brainer. No pop-ups or pop-unders... nada. And Safari doesn't use NEARLY as much resources as iTunes, for example. I haven't had a problem with Safari slowing down or eating up resources or RAM.
 

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yoyo5280 said:
nothing.

really it happened to my moms macbook. there are certain websites (yea...my moms...kinda freaky :eek:)
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Some dodgy site redirected me to a shock site before so maybe... But still I dont think so, with a bit of Googeling I found a article about a exploit which a adware concept program used and it was from 2006, so I guess it would have been fixed by now.

And if some dodgy program got onto my Mac, it would have gone through Safari.

I highly doubt I have adware, still, because the pop-ups only come up on certain sites and only in Safari, nothing in Firefox yet.
 
PowerFullMac said:
Some dodgy site redirected me to a shock site before so maybe... But still I dont think so, with a bit of Googeling I found a article about a exploit which a adware concept program used and it was from 2006, so I guess it would have been fixed by now.

And if some dodgy program got onto my Mac, it would have gone through Safari.

I highly doubt I have adware, still, because the pop-ups only come up on certain sites and only in Safari, nothing in Firefox yet.
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okay, you may be right

but if your not

i told you so
 
Just to be on the safe side, these are screenshots from my Activity Monitor, does any of it look dodgy?

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I don't wanna install weird virus scan things on here, though.

I noticed "aped" is running but yet I dont have Application Enhancer installed :confused:

EDIT: thanks, I'm looking at that now, ggjstudios
 
1) Safari doesn't suck.

2) If you don't like it, use another browser.

3) I tried that link with Safari and got a pop-up. I tried it with Firefox, and got 2 popups. (Yes, both had "block pop-ups" on.) Make of that what you will.

--Eric
 
I tried your link with Safari and got a Vodafone advertisement open up on a new page.

I then tried the same link with Firefox and surprise, surprise, I also got a Vodafone advertisement open up on a new page.

May I suggest that it isn't your browser that is the problem but the web sites you are visiting. :p
 
OllyW said:
I tried your link with Safari and got a Vodafone advertisement open up on a new page.

I then tried the same link with Firefox and surprise, surprise, I also got a Vodafone advertisement open up on a new page.

May I suggest that it isn't your browser that is the problem but the web sites you are visiting. :p
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I get no pop-ups coz I have a extension which only lets scripts I want run and no scripts = no pop-ups or adverts :D
 
PowerFullMac said:
I get no pop-ups coz I have a extension which only lets scripts I want run and no scripts = no pop-ups or adverts :D
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Yes but you were explicitly criticising Safari about the pop-up but other browsers behave in exactly the same way.

Like I said above, it is the web page that is dodgy. If Safari was the only browser affected I could understand you slagging it off but obviously other browsers have their pop-up filter bypassed by this web page.
 
OllyW said:
Yes but you were explicitly criticising Safari about the pop-up but other browsers behave in exactly the same way.

Like I said above, it is the web page that is dodgy. If Safari was the only browser affected I could understand you slagging it off but obviously other browsers have their pop-up filter bypassed by this web page.
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Stop talking sense!
You should know it makes no difference!
 
OllyW said:
Yes but you were explicitly criticising Safari about the pop-up but other browsers behave in exactly the same way.

Like I said above, it is the web page that is dodgy. If Safari was the only browser affected I could understand you slagging it off but obviously other browsers have their pop-up filter bypassed by this web page.
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True, but there is other things, too.

A website was able to run applications on my Mac... Yes, without asking my permission or anything it just opened a few applications then replicated Safari windows along with windows of all the apps it started... Very secure :rolleyes:
 
Its amazing after a few posts, most people fail to mention that this could be another version of pop up ads. Its called pop under ads and its meant to work in such a way that pop up blocker wont be able to block it.

P.S: Oddly enough, I dont get any pop up ads visiting that website. Only ads within the site.
 
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