Safari, hmmm

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Phil Ward

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May 28, 2012, 9:42:59 AM5/28/12
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Is it just me or is Safari having increasing difficulties rendering web pages correctly? The Guardian (www.guardian.co.uk) home page in particular now gets properly messed up by Safari more often than not.

Phil

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Debbie Leigh

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May 28, 2012, 9:52:04 AM5/28/12
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I can no longer read the Times e-paper in Safari and have to use Firefox. I'm definitely having issues with other websites too. 


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May 28, 2012, 9:56:51 AM5/28/12
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I don't normally read the Guardian online or printed but had a look online now in Safari 5.1.7 (on Lion 10.7.4) and it looks just fine.

I have not noticed any problems on any sites other than the very occasional glitch which happens now and then on the Interweb but nothing with a pattern to it.

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Phil Ward

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May 28, 2012, 11:56:33 AM5/28/12
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It's not just me then. Bit annoying that Apple seem to have fundamentally screwed-up a perfectly good browser.

P

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May 28, 2012, 12:11:48 PM5/28/12
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Which sites are causing you problems? What version of Safari?

Stephen

On 28 May 2012, at 16:56, Phil Ward wrote:

It's not just me then. Bit annoying that Apple seem to have fundamentally screwed-up a perfectly good browser.

P


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Phil Ward

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May 28, 2012, 12:39:53 PM5/28/12
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Well today it's been the Guardian site and basschat.co.uk. There's been others but I've not made a note. Problems don't occur every time and reloading the page a few times usually fixes it. Resetting Safari hasn't fixed it. I've been on Safari 5.1.7 since the update became available the other day, but the previous version suffered also. OS is 10.7.4

Phil

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On 28 May 2012, at 16:56, Phil Ward wrote:

Mr P V Hillier-Palmer

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May 29, 2012, 5:42:03 PM5/29/12
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I find at times Safari freezes means shutting it down and relaunching. Occasionally I lose patience and launch Camino

Best Peter
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Tony Crooks

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May 30, 2012, 3:56:45 AM5/30/12
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I'm not sure whether it is WebKit or the way Apple uses WebKit but something is definitely amiss with Safari for Mac.

I stopped using Safari, moving the Chrome, when it was clear that it continues to use huge amounts of real memory (even with an extension like ClicktoFlash) and at times brings my iMac to a standstill as often as Safari itself gets in a tizzy and decides to force reload all my open tabs.

Which is a pity as I much prefer the Safari UI over Chrome's, Safari Reader over Readability, and Safari's inbuilt PDF rendering.

Chrome does at least provide a consistent service although I don't like using the address space for both URLs and searches, and printing seems archaic with its own print panel (but it does a better job at rendering web pages for printing than Safari much of the time).

Apple just seems to have lost its way with Safari and definitely is a long way from the 'just use it' mindset.

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Tony
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Diana

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May 30, 2012, 9:37:23 AM5/30/12
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I have had problems using Safari and some web sites.  One site I can not pay for items in my shopping basket.  Another ecard site I cannot Log In by clicking on the Log In I must remember to use Return key.  The Log In item is overlaid by another item so I cannot get it to function.  Some web sites appear with sections overlaying another.  The same problem does not necessarily happen on my iPad!  Certain sites I have to remember to open in Firefox to get full functionality.

Diana



Chris Billett

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May 28, 2012, 10:05:23 AM5/28/12
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I'm certainly having issues. It I load my own page in a background tab it's screwed when I go to it. If I reload as active tab it's fine. No such issues elsewhere. 

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Russell Brown

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Jun 1, 2012, 5:16:31 AM6/1/12
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No rendering probs but really slow compared to Chrome recently.

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Russell

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