[Star Traveler]

You said — I’ve been using Safari 4 for XP and love it...except for the constant crashing. Hopefully this new version fixes the stability.

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I’m not totally sure I understand exactly how Apple has done this on the Mac OS X system, but I believe that they’ve done something to keep Safari running, and just kick out the offending and interacting program (”code”) that attempts to modify or work with Safari.

I believe Apple can do that in the Mac OS X system, but I don’t believe that the Microsoft system has that capability.

So, it may very well be that the Safari program may appear to be having a lot more problems on the Microsoft system, because of that inability to kick out the offending code that interferes with the proper operation of Safari, using that Microsoft system...

[newfreep]

Thanks for your comments and insight - you may be correct re" XP-Safari.

Downloaded the new version and, after ~ 1 hour, it seems faster and has not crashed...yet.

Crossing fingers & toes as safari is MUCH more user friendly than IE8.

[newfreep]

This morning I downloaded the new Safari-4 (XP) and, after a solid day of constant use, it's been totally stable with zero crashes. Before, I experienced at ;least 2 each day - sometimes more. Speed is a bit faster, too so overall very pleased with the upgrade.

As an aside, the new version was slightly smaller than previous.