At 6:38 PM -0600 2/8/2009, joe wrote: >What about stability? > >I used Webkit/Safari for a while, but it got crashier and crashier.
Safari 3.2.1 crashes on me regularly because one of the sites I frequent has some funky JavaScript. This crash started with the release of Safari 3. WebKit Nightly has been very very stable for me. It even handles the bad JavaScript with no problem. I think I've had maybe one build of WebKit in the past six months that had problems. No big deal, just revert to the previous. >I've mostly used Firefox Firefox 3, the latest 3.1 beta, and Minefield all crash easily for me. Other than for testing, I only use FF as an "alternative" browser, for when WebKit has problems with a site. >it seems like they all get really crashy until I wipe out everything >that I can wipe out (which gets to be a PITA). Learn what pieces are involved in what, so you don't need to do that. eg: the apps just don't corrupt themselves, so they don't need to be "re-installed". I haven't had Firefox or WebKit corrupt their prefs in years. Safari corrupts it prefs now and then tho. Caches - heh. What a mess. When in doubt just totally empty ~/Library/Caches/. >I realize a lot of this is probably because of the evil flash player >plugin. Is there any stable solution (that lets you see flash >content)? Yea. Most of the crashes are due to Flash. You can tell easily, if you look at the crash log. The thread marked as crashed will have all sorts of references to "adobe" and "flash" in it. There is no total solution, other than just blocking all flash content. Flash is a horrible horrible horrible POS. See the thread "Flash in the pan ... aka dealing with Adobe Flash" from October. It details how to deal with Flash, etc. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
