My Safari horror story is simple: it's an unbelievable memory hog. Left alone it quickly eats up all the available memory on a Mac OS X system, any version.
Besides that it used to be my favourite browser client. I like its bookmarks handling (very much like an outliner app; I organize my personal info library around browser bookmarks). It's standards compliant, fast, pretty robust. Chrome's bookmark handling is like Firefox's: useless. Besides that it's light on memory, standards compliant, fast, and robust. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > Just out of curiosity, what sort of horror stories have you heard about > Safari? I have used Safari since it was introduced last century sometime, > have never seen any reason to try anything different . . . Is the horror > related to something it does, or to something people think it should do that > it doesn't? > > stan > > On Jul 1, 2013, at 12:21 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > >> From: Ann Sanfedele >>> On 6/30/2013 11:53, Aahz Maruch wrote: >>>> ... >>>> >>>> Honestly, this really is for your own good. I bet that if you disable >>>> all plugins and extensions, this problem goes away. If you have >>>> JavaScript enabled, you REALLY need to upgrade, or you're asking to get >>>> cracked. Ditto if you access any SSL-enabled sites. >>>> >>>> I'm personally extremely unhappy to get stuck on the upgrade treadmill, >>>> but today's malware environment pretty much requires it. >>>> >>> I buckled under too... for the same reason.. but haven't yet updated >>> java to latest - dragging my feet on that. >>> >>> I've allowed firefox to upgrade whenever suggested lately. >>> >>> ann >> >> Ok, here's the deal: >> >> The problem with Mozilla started on Saturday, 29Jun2013. Every time I >> launch the browser, I get TWO tabs - homepage & Plugin check. >> >> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ >> >> I have to tell NoScript to allow Mozilla.org before I can see the >> plugins being checked. >> >> *ALL* of my plugins are currently up to date except for Quicktime (more >> on that later). I had to disable Quicktime. >> >> I cannot log in to Mozilla.org support. It tells me my username or >> password is incorrect. I cannot create a new account because my existing >> account is already linked to my email address. I will have to create a >> new email account if I want to create a new Mozilla account so I can log >> in to Mozilla.org "support". >> >> Searching Mozilla.org, I find a question about the same problem I'm >> experiencing. The topic was CLOSED as FIXED 2 years before I encountered >> the problem. None of the solutions proposed back then work. >> >> Quicktime - You can't just download it, you MUST HAVE AN ACCOUNT. >> >> Apple won't let me use my iTunes username/password to download Quicktime. >> >> Apple wouldn't let me create a new account to download Quicktime because >> my email address is already linked to my iTunes account. I can't update >> Quicktime because I can't log in to my existing account & I can't create >> a new account. >> >> So, I have disabled Quicktime. When I start Firefox, I still get the >> same two tabs & when I look at the plugins, Quicktime is not shown. >> All of the other plugins are current and up to date. >> >> I'm looking to see what other browser options I might have. It will >> *NOT* be Windoze Exploder, and it will *NOT* be Chrome. Probably not >> Safari either given the number of horror stories I've heard about it & >> the problems I'm already having with Quicktime. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
