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I dumped Safari! - Drew - 09-03-2011
OS 10.6.8 with latest Safari (5.1). It kept leaking memory, spinning beachball, crashes. Used Click-to-Flash and Click-to-PlugIn for quite a while, but still problems. I've always used Safari and am not a heavy browser user, but it's become a real hassle. I switched to FireFox. We'll see how it goes.
Re: I dumped Safari! - Black - 09-03-2011
I have never used Safari as my main browser, but switching to Firefox is out of the fire and into the furnace.
Still sticking by it but I've noticed Google Chrome seems to work much better. I'd recommend that before you get too comfy with Firefox.
Re: I dumped Safari! - rich in distress - 09-03-2011
Reset Safari (Menu Safari, 7th option).
Re: I dumped Safari! - haikuman - 09-03-2011
I am still in Safari 5.0.5... seems to hold up pretty well for me.
Re: I dumped Safari! - nwyaker - 09-03-2011
rich in distress wrote:
Reset Safari (Menu Safari, 7th option).
Thanks ! That helped a lot. Activity Monitor was showing nearly 2 gigs of RAM used, now down to about 300 MB.
Re: I dumped Safari! - Drew - 09-03-2011
rich in distress wrote:
Reset Safari (Menu Safari, 7th option).
Yes, I've done that quite a bit. Also optimize memory from time to time with "iCleanMemory". Tired of having to clean up after Safari or experience a breakdown if I don't. I'll check out Chrome as well.
Re: I dumped Safari! - Winston - 09-03-2011
Take a look at Camino. I like the interface better than Firefox's.
http://caminobrowser.org/
I keep all three handy as occasionally there is still a web page that won't work properly in one or two of the three.
Good luck.
- Winston
Re: I dumped Safari! - IronMac - 09-03-2011
Safari is one of the worst programs I have yet to encounter. Not only do I need to shut it down once every 3 days but I strongly suspect that it's the reason why I need to shut down my MBP once every week or so.
I am using Firefox as my primary work browser but may switch over to Chrome as my main browser.
Re: I dumped Safari! - Uncle Wig - 09-03-2011
I dunno. I use Safari heavily, all day every day for work. Many tabs, etc. etc. I very seldom have any problems. Right now it's using 450 mb of real memory. Safari 5.1, 10.6.8.
I'm gonna suggest there are other issues with your system.
:dunno:
Re: I dumped Safari! - Drew - 09-03-2011
Uncle Wig wrote:
I'm gonna suggest there are other issues with your system.
:dunno:
Could be, though I've seen lots of threads about memory leakage with Safari. I'll see if Firefox or Chrome give me similar troubles.