I'm rather disappointed with Charles Moore's latest article (yesterday) on LEM.
<http://lowendmac.com/misc/11mr/safari-4.1.3-for-tiger.html>
Safari 4.1.3 for Tiger: Fast, but Not Perfect
Charles Moore - 2011.03.15
Apple takes a lot of stick from users of older Mac hardware for
dropping support for their machines from later versions of the Mac
OS - and for older Mac OS versions from the latest software.
Well deserved "stick", IMO.
[snip]
However, I want to salute Apple for just releasing one more update
of its Safari browser for OS X 10.4 users. Version 10.4 is not
supported by the current Safari (version 5), but along with the
latest Safari 5 security update release, Apple also issued a Safari
4.1.3 update for us holdout Tiger users, and it seems to be a very
decent browser - possibly the best left among the diminishing
handful of up-to-date browsers that still support OS X 10.4.
Folx, can you please double check me on the version of Safari?
AFAIK, Apple has left us Tiger users with our pants hanging open -
there just is no corresponding security update for Tiger, to go with
the 9 March 2011 release of Safari 5.0.4.
Safari 5.0.4 update:
<http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1070>
and it references Safari 4.1.3 for Tiger, dated 18 November 2010.
<http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1069>
[snip]
until I noticed that there was a lot of hard drive activity going on
in the background even when I wasn't doing anything. I tried closing
tabs. Still no joy.
However, quitting Safari 4.1.3 ended the background busy-work
Starting up Safari caused it to resume. Bummer, that doesn't happen
with Opera, OmniWeb, or SeaMonkey, all of which I use regularly on
the Pismo.
This has been covered on the LEM lists repeatedly, I believe. Safari
is updating the Top Sites & its site preview images. If you turn off
the Top Sites, that background traffic goes away.
[snip]
the need to use an installer and restart the machine after
installation instead of just dragging the application into the
Applications Folder
Again, covered on the lists: Safari is NOT a self contained app. It
is an app plus a bunch of shared frameworks (WebKit, et al). The
only way to complete the installation of those frameworks is to make
everything accessing them - other apps and system components - let
go, which is most cleanly done with a reboot. Now, if you want, I'm
sure Apple could provide a stand-alone version of Safari. Then you
can deal with all the wasted memory from having non-shared sharable
libraries.
FWIW,
- Dan.
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