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Apple Safari

Buzzyman reviewed on 11 Mar 2010

After installing Safari 4.0.5 for Leopard via Software Update, and having to restart (why Apple? Why must I restart if I update a web browser? No other browser needs a restart!) I find my MacBook Pro to have slowed to a crawl. Safari nows gives a spinning beach ball for every action attempted, and seems to be just about the slowest and worst web browser I've ever tried! I've emptied the cashe repeatedly, corrected permissions, restarted several times, but Safari just seems to stall constantly, even trying to scroll down a web page. Until Apple fixes this thing, stay the hell away from it, it's a disaster and I'm going back to 4.0.4!

MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HD, 10.5.8 - a system that shouldn't make me want to tear my hair out because Safari causes a spinning beach ball even if I just move the cursor across the screen.

[Version 4.0.5]

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Buzzyman replied on 12 Mar 2010

I'm guessing this has some sort of memory leak, as you can watch it eat up RAM the longer it's open with Activity Monitor. My system nearly came to a standstill because Safari was using 2.5 GB of real RAM and almost 1.5 of VM before I quit! The more sites you visit, and tabs you open, the more memory Safari gobbles up! Think I'll use Firefox until this is fixed.

Macaroni

buzzyman reviewed on 11 Jul 2007

I've been a happy user for almost two years without a single problem and you never have to do any work to keep things going smoothly. And I'm always amazed at how much space is recovered by removing the unused language files, often hundreds of MB's!

[Version 2.0.8]

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