10-16-2013, 04:28 AM
going against the grain on this one, I dumped the Safari browser a couple of years ago due to the unresolved memory leak issue when using multiple pages with multiple tabs in them. Did an update over the weekend for a business client (who stays out of date owing to problems with his many business applications that have been broken in the past by frequent updates), moved him from Leopard to Snow Leopard, all went well except Safari, which was broken by the update and refused to open after the update. Did considerable research on the web and found this particular combination produced similar results for thousands of users, tried to repair on my own using combination of uninstalling flash, trashing Safari app and preferences and reinstalling from stand alone installer all to no avail. Monday morning was on the phone with AppleCare for almost two hours, first level tech was very good and he repeated all my steps and a few of his own but no joy. Transferred me to Senior level tech who spent another hour with me trying all sorts of esoteric stuff but again Safari merely opened to blank page and spinning beach ball. He was about to start a full reinstall of the operating system but client balked and could not afford to have his business shut down for the many additional hours that would entail, so I politely ended the call. Downloaded and installed Chrome, imported his favorites and his browsing history and had him back in business in ten minutes flat. He loves the speed of Chrome and will likely never look at Safari again as he said it never was very reliable or stable. Average users care little about 32 or 64 bit all they want is for the bloody thing to work. OH GEE is that not a familiar claim that Steve and Apple used to strive for? "It just works" as I remember?