>
> At 6:38 PM -0600 2/8/2009, joe wrote:
>> What about stability?
>>
> 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.
Not for me. Webkit seems to do worse with the NY Times "play against
the clock" crossword puzzle applet than Safari.
>
>
> 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 mostly don't reinstall the entire app. Trashing the pref file
never seems to help. Clearing up everything I can using Onyx is
about the only thing I've gotten to make them usable. Next time,
I'll try just manually emptying the caches as you suggest.
>
>> 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.
I'll check that out.
I don't think Flash itself is so evil. If it's being used
maliciously or poorly standardized, that's something else. (Is it
just Mac browsers that have this problem, or do browsers in other OSs
disagree with Flash too?)
I even use some flash content on my own website. (Mostly because I
like the idea of a scalable vectored animation--the little splash
movies that load on my site--randomly selected by a cgi script-- are
teensy tiny files.)
I tried for a little while using a css ad blocker. That actually
seemed to work, except that it blocked a lot of good content too.
I'd love a solution that blocks flash but give you the option to load
it (maybe shows a little box or something). Or better yet, one that
can handle flash without getting all crashy.
Thanks!
Joe
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