10-16-2013, 05:01 AM
Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=tortoise]Average users care little about 32 or 64 bit all they want is for the bloody thing to work.
That's why people use Safari. It simply works.
Complaining about it because your client hosed his OS and you couldn't fix it after a big and ill-advised OS upgrade doesn't put the browser in a bad light at all.
(BTW: I use Firefox. 'Can't stand Safari.)
If you did the research I have done on the two items I mentioned, memory leaks that bogs Safari even on my healthy MacPro running Lion with 16GB of RAM as well as the problems I encountered with the clients system you would discover that it simply does NOT work for many thousands of users and they have been complaining about it for years with no resolution. This particular thread on the Apple support communities discussion forum dates back to July 2011 and people keep coming back looking for a solution, I visited there myself many times but finally gave up and switched to Chrome and FireFox have never looked back. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3190569?start=0&tstart=0
As to the "ill advised OS upgrade" it was a healthy system in all other respects and still is with the singular exception of Safari. I could not move him up any further owing to business applications that are yet to be compatible with Lion or later. And Safari is part of the upgrade so one is left with few choices.