Apple Safari users suffer crashes

Appears to be caused be search suggestions in Safari address bar, which seems to be server side so it's affecting various versions of software.

Reddit thread linked in article: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/42wle1/safari_crashi...

Sometimes I really worry how much I depend on software written by Apple.

On the weirder end of Safari bugs, mine can only open t.co (Twitter short link) URLs about 1/4 of the time. The rest of the time it sits there, eventually telling me the server is not responding. Apparently it is a bug at a "lower level than Webkit". The mind boggles as to what it actually is, and it's been like this for months.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/22/10813862/Safari-sucks-at-t...

I've tried to like Safari. It's certainly snappier than the alternatives. It's fast and seems light. I'll go as far as to say I want to like Safari. As a heavy iPhone and Mac user, going all in on Safari would buy me a lot. In a similar vein, I want to like Firefox - even more so than Safari. An open source web browser by a non-profit? Sign me up. That's an excellent concept to rally behind.

But...

I can't ditch Chrome. I know it eats up resources like it's nobody's business, I know it's probably tracking me, I hate that it wants me to 'log in' like it's some sort of operating system, but I just can't kick the habit.

I think it's the tabs. For whatever reason, chrome is simply the best browser for those 50 tab research sessions. It's also the best file downloader, the most configurable, has the best extension ecosystem. It manages to be the best pro-user's browser, and the best layperson's browser at the same time.

I still have all three browsers sitting in my dock. I just use Chrome by default.

As someone owning an iPad Air and thus forced to use mobile Safari, this is hardly any news for me.

Back in 7.1 scrolling or zooming a page "too fast" led to an immediate crash. Onto 8.0, it still did but the threshold was apparently raised a bit. It was finally fixed before 9.0 but now fullscreen HTML5 video playing starts to crash randomly. Even worse, sometimes the page just goes blank and you have to reload it - The last time this happened I had spent five minutes filling a form. Hilariously, the preview interface still shows the actual page, so I managed to click the submit button by mapping its position from the preview.

Fun trick I learned with Chrome: Click a tab, then shift-click another tab. The tabs should darken, and if you drag them, they all move as a unit. Very handy when you have sessions that kind of diverged and you'd like to mentally separate them.