Almost a month ago I ditched Safari 4 in favor of Firefox 3.5 as Safari was causing my system to stutter whenever I had more than 10 tabs open. I am about to switch to Chrome and try it out for a month to see which browser performs the best under my use. Today, however, [...]
Archive for category Safari
Safari update 4.0.4 released
Nov 12
Grab bag o’ fixes
Oct 10
Here’s a melange of remedies for your ailing Mac:
Christopher Breen tries to convince Christopher Breen on using big gun on Safari when it starts misbehaving.
Two potential solutions to Snow Leopard crashes from iLounge readers.
Last but not the least, Jeff Gamet offers a quick fix for washed out displays after waking it or a Mac from [...]
Apple on Tuesday released an update to their web browser application. Safari 4.0.3 is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to stability, compatibility and security including:
Stability improvements for webpages that use the HTML 5 video tag
Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins
Stability improvements for Top Sites
Fixes an issue that prevented some users from logging into [...]
Blocking Flash in Safari
Aug 2
Got this tip from the Angry Mac Bastards podcast episode 20.
I tend to open several tabs on Safari all at once; usually 10 to 30 tabs. Whenever I do that, Safari would slowly grind to a halt and sometimes, eventually crash. There’s also the issue of memory and CPU hogging. It’s probably because of all the [...]
Update: Safari 4.0.2 [u]
Jul 10
Safari 4.0.2 is “recommended for all Safari users and improves the stability of the Nitro JavaScript engine and includes the latest compatibility and security fixes.”
Security fixes involves vulnerabilities in WebKit described as:
An issue in WebKit’s handling of the parent and top objects may result in a cross-site scripting attack when visiting a maliciously crafted website. [...]
In a move that drew gasps and applause from the audience Apple announced that the next iteration of the Mac operating system, Mac OS X 10.6, will cost only $29 to upgrade.
Apple’s SVP of OS X Software, Bertrand Serlet, presented the mostly under the hood improvements and refinements of Mac OS X 10.6 on June [...]
Apple Tuesday released a slew of updates for their Leopard and Tiger operating systems as well as for their Safari web browser version 3 and 4 beta.
Mac OS 10.5.7
This update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of Macs.
Here’s the partial [...]
It’s been approximately 24 hours since Apple released the public beta of Safari 4 and reports of bugs and crashes have started appearing in various discussion forums and blogs.
One of the issues I had was losing support for 1Password, a password management tool for the Mac. Thankfully, this issue has been resolved with today’s release [...]
Apple has released Safari version 4 beta for both Mac and Windows.
I gave it a try today and I’m giving my impressions on some of the new features.
Tabs
One obvious change is the moving of the tabs to the top of the browser window instead of having it beneath the bookmarks bar. Kind of disorienting at [...]
AppleInsider reported that Net Applications’ compilation of web tracking data for January 2009 has revealed that the Mac OS has garnered 9.93% of web market share. This is an all-time high for operating system representing a 2.41% increase from last year’s 7.52%.
Data also shows that Microsoft at 88.26%, lost 0.42% as compared to last month [...]
@#$%*!& Safari!
May 9
Damn! It did it again!
Safari crashed on me. Again.
I had a couple of tabs open and I opened a link on a new tab. Safari froze, then crashed. AGAIN!
I don’t mind it when I only have two or three tabs open but I had more than five and those websites were the ones I was [...]
According to MDN, John Shinal of Investors.com reported that in the past decade Apple’s Steve Jobs boosted research spending while other tech companies slashed theirs. The boosted spending produced the iPod and this has changed the company and boosted its value four-fold in two years.
Applepeels talks a lot about Apple’s potential growth in small and [...]
