the previous version of Safari was the most crash-prone browser of the 5 that I use
I too had an occasional crash of Safari 3 which would, ironically, occur when I was cleaning up my desktop by deleting garbage Safari windows. Which you would have thought would have helped keep it afloat by freeing up RAM. That problem never affected Leopard itself, and was last noticed before I upgraded from 1 Gb to 4 Gb just because I could and it wasn't expensive (getting the RAM from Crucial.com, not Apple, of course).Safari 4 has been very nice in my experience; I don't even recall any real problems with the beta.
Thanks for the ping as always, Swordmaker.
You said — I know it’s not PC to mention it on an Apple thread, but the previous version of Safari was the most crash-prone browser of the 5 that I use: 32-bit IE, 64-bit IE, FF, Chrome and Safari.
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There can be other reasons for that, other than Safari, itself. There are those add-ons that can cause problems, in that other programmers have done something that isn’t stable with Safari. So, Safari gets blamed, because that’s what you see crashing, but it was the other programmer’s code doing it... LOL...
There’s that sort of thing.
And then, if you read that certain people have some problems with a certain version while the mass of others using it don’t, then that clues you into the fact that there is something in the way that one person has their computer set up that is causing the problem. That person may not be aware of what they did, or have on their computer, or the way it was set up that is causing it, but that’s usually what it is. There’s a conflict there, somewhere that they’re not aware of.
Same here. It crashed too much to use and seemed to get slower and less responsive the longer it ran.
Just dl'd the update and using it now. We'll see. It *is* fast, seems faster than FF 3.5 but I'm not sure yet. (Winxp)
I could care less if it is PC or not — but I’ve not been blown away by the performance of my Mac (which I purchased in 11-08). It crashes 1-3 times a week, the new Safari is slow as molasses, and is a pain in my butt. Sometimes I can pull up a webpage and use all the links and buttons, then 2 hours later when I go back to the same page, everything is active. Firefox loads several times faster and is more stable.
That being said, I do like my Mac, but at this point, it is 50/50 as to whether or not I’d replace it with another Mac