This happened to me too, but i've only installed Safari 3 on Windows, on a machine at work, with no access to AIM or iChat or even any knowledge of my iChat login, so i dont think this is safari related.. I'm a little worried though :S What the hell added these to my iChat? :/
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This happened to me too, but i've only installed Safari 3 on Windows, on a machine at work, with no access to AIM or iChat or even any knowledge of my iChat login, so i dont think this is safari related.. I'm a little worried though :S What the hell added these to my iChat? :/
Yep, it seems to be caused by having too many fonts on your computer. There's a fairly-simple fix for it listed in the Apple Discussions Forum. I too had this problem but managed to fix it with a bit of help from the Apple Discussions Forum.
Still not very impressed with Safari for Windows, I agree with a lot of other users; feels more like an Alpha release.
anyone else having issues with ichat after installing the safari beta? When i type a message in ichat and hit enter, it takes about 8 seconds for the message to show up in the chat window.
developers should actually use the weakest browser, that way it insures a website works on all browsers, developers always moving to the biggest best browser tend to cause all the "well my browser can't see that or yours cant see this" problems
I'll re-word it: Most professional web developers will use Firefox as their main development tool - of course they'll test it on all browsers including Exploder.
Yes!
I definitely am. It seems like a very odd problem to have, but it's happening.
I'm excited about the prospect of warming up more PC users to Mac apps, but I prefer Firefox over Safari by a pretty wide margin.
Of the sites I use the most, Firefox seems to display them better than Safari. (nytimes.com in particular looks terrible on Safari.)
The other reason is Foxmarks, which keeps my PC and Mac bookmarks perfectly synced. AFIK, you would need to buy .Mac to get Safari to do the same thing. Even if there's a workaround, I still like Firefox better.
Of the sites I use the most, Firefox seems to display them better than Safari. (nytimes.com in particular looks terrible on Safari.)
The other reason is Foxmarks, which keeps my PC and Mac bookmarks perfectly synced. AFIK, you would need to buy .Mac to get Safari to do the same thing. Even if there's a workaround, I still like Firefox better.
glad to see I am not the only one! Really wierd, I wonder what else this safari beta will affect if it is already screwing with other programs.
Looks like we already have people coming up with vulnerabilities of the Safary browser for windoes. Some of these guys will not be informing Apple, instead the will use it.
Month of Safari Bugs
See post, they are organizing.
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It is known the Month of Safari Bugs is being coordinated with elements of
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See post, they are organizing.
" Reader post by: n3td3v
Posted on: June 12, 2007, 6:47 AM PDT
Story: Safari for Windows not so
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It is known the Month of Safari Bugs is being coordinated with elements of
the underground.
I'm still using it at work (PC on XP) and I just installed it at home yesterday on my MBP, and I can say is that it's somewhat buggy, and SLOW.
Or it could be my crappy network here at the office - but I notice that loading pages is just plain slow.
Yeah, I just launched IE 7 and browsed MR and it's not as slow as Safari 3.
Kind of a dissapointment, but I'm still planning on using Safari 3 for now.
Or it could be my crappy network here at the office - but I notice that loading pages is just plain slow.
Yeah, I just launched IE 7 and browsed MR and it's not as slow as Safari 3.
Kind of a dissapointment, but I'm still planning on using Safari 3 for now.
i installed on windows and i get no text on it at all, just buttons of blankness, web pages themselves r missing all sorts of stuff and if i hit the bug button the whole thing locks up then crashes, and this is a core 2 duo PC with 4 gigs of ram!
Browsing nytimes.com with Safari 3 and Firefox I discern no dramatic differences between the two.
Are you certain you didn't mistype the address in Safari 3 and ene up at nytimez.com?
It's an easy mistake for a novice intertubes user to make.
as mentioned before, most likely a "too many fonts" installed issue. go here for some info (scroll all the way down):
http://www.digi-comic.com/
worked for me when all other suggestions failed (renaming resources file, deleting lucidia fonts, etc.)
My Windows using buddy just IMed me complaining about this problem. I just figured he had some kind of virus or something.
$10 Apple released Safari for windows was to force web developers to begin to develop for Safari and make sure their sites are Safari compatable. So that when the iPhone comes out you dont have 10million pissed off iphone users who can't access certain websites...
Many Mac users have a PC and use Firefox on both to easily share bookmarks. This will also make more people on Mac use Safari as well.
Fine ... but I don't think the point of this was to give users another browser to play with... They are trying to make Safari have a serious dent on browser market share... Once the iPhone is released if some website aren't Safari ready, people are going to be pissed. This will force developers to design for Safari if the marketshare can be increased.
Why can't Safari (even the newest one) display the new Yahoo Mail
Sorry if this subject has already been beaten to death in other forums, but why isn't Safari able to display the new Yahoo! Mail interface, or for that matter, the built-in Google Talk client on the Gmail webpage??!
To this day, these are the main reasons why I just can't get into using it, and in my opinion is a huge impediment to the group of users who use both those email services (i.e. the majority). I was hoping the new beta would have taken care of these issues but it seems like it doesn't... unless there's some setting I haven't toggled or something I'm missing. Any thoughts?
BTW, I've been using Firefox on the Mac quite happily and love it for all the extensions available, but you know... it'd be nice to get to know Safari since it will be the default browser on my future phone
Sorry if this subject has already been beaten to death in other forums, but why isn't Safari able to display the new Yahoo! Mail interface, or for that matter, the built-in Google Talk client on the Gmail webpage??!
To this day, these are the main reasons why I just can't get into using it, and in my opinion is a huge impediment to the group of users who use both those email services (i.e. the majority). I was hoping the new beta would have taken care of these issues but it seems like it doesn't... unless there's some setting I haven't toggled or something I'm missing. Any thoughts?
BTW, I've been using Firefox on the Mac quite happily and love it for all the extensions available, but you know... it'd be nice to get to know Safari since it will be the default browser on my future phone