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I was expecting: Improve Safari Stability. Safari is crashing way more frequently than it used to.

by halayli 14y ago

Spooky23 14y ago
I've found Safari to be unusable for a year or two now on my 09 iMac. Lots of random freezing and overall poor performance. Chrome is just too much better to even bother with Safari.
- pooriaazimi 14y ago
  Install some WebKit nighlies, I've heard they help a lot: http://www.webkit.org http://www.webkit.org
- kaffeinecoma 14y ago
  That's interesting. I just moved back to Safari because ever since Lion, Chrome has been totally unusable for me. The Flash/Shockwave that they bundle in consistently pegged my CPU after a few minutes of use. The whole desktop would get laggy and sluggish, to the point that I could barely operate the Finder enough to do a Force Quit. After a year of trying all kinds of things to fix/mitigate it, I just gave up and went back to Safari. Weird, since I rarely hear complaints from others about Chrome, but for me it was unusable. Even tried a fresh OS install to no effect.
  - philwelch 14y ago
    So disable Flash and selectively reenable it for those few sites that require it. Chrome has click-to-flash functionality built in.
    - kaffeinecoma 14y ago
      Yup, tried it, did not help. The minute I'd hit a site needing flash (Google Voice was a frequent one) it'd go bonkers again.
danudey 14y ago
I've found Safari to be much MORE reliable, if for no other reason than playing HTML5 video made Safari crash reliably in Lion, which doesn't happen in Mountain Lion. Specifically, HTML5 video via the YouTube5 extension was fine. Also, HTML5 video that YouTube and Vimeo voluntarily showed me was fine. HTML5 video on The Escapist was not fine, and would crash somewhere between immediately and 30 seconds in (sometimes, but rarely, longer, but never so long as a minute). This made AllThingsD especially frustrating to deal with, because they have HTML5 video straight on their front page, and while it doesn't auto play, it would cause the webview process to go into a crash loop until I closed that tab between crashes. I felt especially bad for my laptop (and the web server) when I opened a new tab to AllThingsD and went to get some water and it crashed 15-20 times in a row. Now? Everything works great. Faster, smoother, less crashy.

I was expecting: Improve Safari Stability. Safari is crashing way more frequently than it used to.

by halayli 14y ago

I was expecting: Improve Safari Stability. Safari is crashing way more frequently than it used to.

I've found Safari to be unusable for a year or two now on my 09 iMac. Lots of random freezing and overall poor performance. Chrome is just too much better to even bother with Safari.

pooriaazimi 14y ago
Install some WebKit nighlies, I've heard they help a lot: http://www.webkit.org http://www.webkit.org
kaffeinecoma 14y ago
That's interesting. I just moved back to Safari because ever since Lion, Chrome has been totally unusable for me. The Flash/Shockwave that they bundle in consistently pegged my CPU after a few minutes of use. The whole desktop would get laggy and sluggish, to the point that I could barely operate the Finder enough to do a Force Quit. After a year of trying all kinds of things to fix/mitigate it, I just gave up and went back to Safari. Weird, since I rarely hear complaints from others about Chrome, but for me it was unusable. Even tried a fresh OS install to no effect.
- philwelch 14y ago
  So disable Flash and selectively reenable it for those few sites that require it. Chrome has click-to-flash functionality built in.
  - kaffeinecoma 14y ago
    Yup, tried it, did not help. The minute I'd hit a site needing flash (Google Voice was a frequent one) it'd go bonkers again.

danudey 14y ago

I've found Safari to be much MORE reliable, if for no other reason than playing HTML5 video made Safari crash reliably in Lion, which doesn't happen in Mountain Lion. Specifically, HTML5 video via the YouTube5 extension was fine. Also, HTML5 video that YouTube and Vimeo voluntarily showed me was fine. HTML5 video on The Escapist was not fine, and would crash somewhere between immediately and 30 seconds in (sometimes, but rarely, longer, but never so long as a minute). This made AllThingsD especially frustrating to deal with, because they have HTML5 video straight on their front page, and while it doesn't auto play, it would cause the webview process to go into a crash loop until I closed that tab between crashes. I felt especially bad for my laptop (and the web server) when I opened a new tab to AllThingsD and went to get some water and it crashed 15-20 times in a row. Now? Everything works great. Faster, smoother, less crashy.