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Apple Safari users suffer crashes

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Re: Apple Safari users suffer crashes

#21

Post by k-mcgrady »

untog wrote: post #4

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.thev…

This was driving me mad for ages. I was blaming Twitter and my connection until I finally discovered it was Safari. This was the last straw for me. Having Safari on my desktop synced with my iPhone is so useful. Safari credit card and password storage works better than Chromes (imo) and I find it superior in almost every other way. But with todays issue, the t.co issue, and another issue where my entire Mac would randomly freeze and require a forced reboot on some videos (not sure if it was flash or HTML5) I've just had to give up and switch to Chrome.

Re: Apple Safari users suffer crashes

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Post by e40 »

rangibaby wrote: post #15
autoreleasepool wrote: post #6

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 Chro…

I think you're just used to Chrome. There isn't really that much seperating Chrome, Safari, and Firefox these days.

Not true. I went from Chrome to FF, but after 6 months on FF I was just too annoyed to stay on FF. It was mainly the crashes in one tab taking down the entire browser, but there were a lot of things that annoyed the crap out of me. Going back to Chrome felt like a weight was lifted from my shoulders.

Re: Apple Safari users suffer crashes

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Post by fulafel »

kozukumi wrote: post #5
grabcocque wrote: post #3

The bug may have been uncovered by a server change, but Safari really shouldn't be crashing just because it can't reach the suggestions server. That is, frankly, pisspoor QA by Apple.

It isn't just crashing Safari but does a full OS reboot on my 5c running 9.2.1 (which is the latest release iOS version as of today).

Yep. Hence it's barking the wrong tree to frame this as primarily Safari's fault.

Re: Apple Safari users suffer crashes

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Post by untog »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #21
untog wrote: post #4

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.thev…

This was driving me mad for ages. I was blaming Twitter and my connection until I finally discovered it was Safari. This was the last straw for me. Having Safari on my desktop synced with my iPhone is so useful. Safari credit card and password storage works better than Chromes (imo) and I find it superior in almost every other way. But with todays issue, the t.co issue, and another issue where my entire Mac would ran…

They both show worrying things to me:

- app crashing because a remote server is down? Bad coding. Bad QA. What else is lurking in that codebase?

- weird bug affecting one domain? Fix it. Twitter is not a small site. But it's been months and they still haven't fixed it.

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Post by paulojreis »

untog wrote: post #16
autoreleasepool wrote: post #6

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 Chro…

I was the same, but eventually Chrome's slowness and resource-intensiveness (this is on OS X, of course) drove me to Safari. Chrome is still my 'dev' browser though, and having the two separate is actually quite nice.

That's my setup, essentially. Chrome as my 'dev' browser, as I'm too familiar with its devs tools.

Another nice thing about having a browser only for development is that, when you're demo'ing, there's less of a risk to show unwanted stuff (e.g. address bar suggestions). :)

Re: Apple Safari users suffer crashes

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Post by notwhereyouare »

autoreleasepool wrote: post #6

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 Chro…

>the most configurable, has the best extension ecosystem.

that's why I haven't left chrome. I HATE some of the stuff they (google) do, but I can make this my browser and I like the overall appearance

Re: Apple Safari users suffer crashes

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Post by sleepyhead »

I haven't experienced this issue but the last month I have been getting a lot of tabs crashing and reloading. Anyone else with the same problem? It's not related to any particular site. Some text about the page had a problem and had to be reloaded is displayed in a status bar above the page beneath the tabs.
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