I have encountered two specific problems with Safari 4 beta on my G5. First, it hangs every time I try to use the Rhapsody streaming music player from the VH1 website. Second, it hung when trying to open a large PDF file, a Sears parts manual I was trying to download. When I went back to my Cube running Safari 3 I could download the PDF while listening to the streaming music, no problems at all. I was using the nightly build v.42162, so it was the latest version of Safari available at the time. I did report the errors, maybe there will be fixes soon. What I have found is that I can keep Safari 3 and use the Webkit to try Safari 4. Unlike downloading from Apple, which replaces Safari 3 with 4, the Webkit lets you keep both so that you can fall back to 3 if you encounter trouble with 4.
On Apr 7, 2:13 am, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:48 PM, joe wrote: > > > I still think it's the best browser I've used in a while. > > Agreed. > > > I do have these problems: > > 1)It causes messages in Mail to be half invisible until you select a > > part of the text > > I'm not sure what you're talking about? My Mail.app behaves normally. > > > 2)With Webkit, it always reports problems on startup (which I've > > figured out is the ClickToFlash plug-in that I like a lot, so I > > don't mind just clicking "continue" whenever I start up). > > Webkit nightly builds are completely different than Safari 4 beta. > Webkit works as a "self-contained" application, it doesn't install a > new version of webkit or the associated frameworks, but rather > utilizes copies within it's own Contents package. Safari 4 beta > actually installs newer versions of webkit and associated shared > files. This is a big difference. With Webkit nightly you can trash an > old version and use a new version instantly. With Safari 4, you'd need > to use an installer, and if you decided to downgrade you'd need to use > the special "uninstaller", and perhaps even reinstall Safari 3. > > Webkit DOES NOT support plugins or extensions like Safari does, so > you'll ALWAYS get the warning when you start any version of Webkit and > you have any plugins or extensions such as ClickToFlash. > > > 3) When I open a link from a Mail message and I already have Webkit/ > > Safari opened, it opens a second instance of the application. > > This occurs when you have both Safari and Webkit. The problem is a > preferences issue. You're probably using Webkit, and your preference > is for Safari as your "default" browser, and when you click ANY link > (not just from Mail messages, ANY link), the default browser will open > in addition to the one you're already using. This isn't a good idea to > run multiple versions of webkit simultaneously. I normally try to > change my default browser preference to whichever I happen to be using > to avoid this scenario. If you don't have multiple versions on your > computer (i.e. Safari & Webkit both) then there's no way to open two > instances together. If you do, make certain your default browser > preference is whichever version you're using, or another browser such > as Firefox, so you can avoid two versions running together. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
