ccsnd Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 My macbook is so smart that safari knows when I have been browsing for too long. It has this awesome feature where safari will automatically close out for me, and then refuse to reopen without several attempts. We all know macs don't freeze or get viruses and are perfect, so the above explanation clearly is the only one. I think it is great that mac is promoting less internet use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundslikejustin Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 That's the 'time to go outside and get some fresh air' setting and can only be disabled with authorization from your mother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDirckze Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 I gave up using Safari as a browser years ago. Went with Firefox and have never looked back... Give it a go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Karlsson Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Try "empty cache" and "clear history". In preferences under the privacy tab; "remove all website data". Also open Disk Utility and run "repair permissions" (I always do this one every time I install something or update the OS). Hope that helps. Personally I prefer Google Chrome as my main browser these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Wielage Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 I gotta say, Safari 5 (currently 5.1.2) has been very buggy for me, particularly with Flash-intensive websites. Many crashes and weird behavior going on. I'm almost to the point where I have to run Firefox in the background, just in case Safari acts up. Piece of crap. And this is on OSX 10.6.8, because I stubbornly refuse to upgrade to 10.7 -- for now. I dunno who to blame: Apple, Adobe, or both. Bastards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Thomas Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Maybe someone installed this: http://macfreedom.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McL Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Am very unhappy with 10.7 on new box. More powerful box + 10.7 = more rainbows of death than ever May go back to 10.6 if I can. Haven't used Safari for years. Went to Firefox and now Chrome (because of the soundie G+ weekly weekend hangout thing and extensions specifically for that). Harrumph. -- Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vesterskov Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 I'm using 10.7 on my new Macbook Air - and its working absolutely flawlessly. Your mileage may vary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Wow. Am I the only one who loves Safari? I have also updated most all of my machines to current Lion and everything is working well (except for Zaxconvert, Howie is working on it, and of course any legacy programs that need Rosetta --- Quicken being the big one). I have Chrome, Firefox, Camino and some other browsers installed, and I do need to go to them once in awhile when I encounter Safari incompatibility at some sites. Maybe it is just that I haven't used them that much but I really did not like Chrome or Firefox, so I think I will stick with Safari. I will add, and this is something I always explain to my less knowledgable Mac friends, is that the browser is one program that you do need to quit and re-launch on a regular basis, even if you are not having problems. Safari, like most of the browsers, initiates a lot of cleanup and maintenance routines when it launches and when it quits. Many people I know keep ALL the programs (applications) they want to use up and running at all times, never quitting anything. The browser should be quit and re-launched on a daily basis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindrop Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Am very unhappy with 10.7 on new box. More powerful box + 10.7 = more rainbows of death than ever May go back to 10.6 if I can. Haven't used Safari for years. Went to Firefox and now Chrome (because of the soundie G+ weekly weekend hangout thing and extensions specifically for that). Harrumph. -- Jan Do rainbows of death = beachballs of colour? I've resisted the Snow Leopard to Lion predatory cat upgrade as yet and it's interesting after the initial 'wonderful new thing' hype has died down the sordid reality begins to come out - reading some complaints about slower than ever and other things that don't work or only half work? And seeing articles about running Snow Leopard in Lion??? Can it be that good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShubiSnax Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 I like Safari over Chrome and Firefox. I use Opera on my PC. I'm all for a lightweight, quick-opening browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Gilchrist Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 My macbook is so smart that safari knows when I have been browsing for too long. It has this awesome feature where safari will automatically close out for me, and then refuse to reopen without several attempts. We all know macs don't freeze or get viruses and are perfect, so the above explanation clearly is the only one. I think it is great that mac is promoting less internet use. I know it's a lot more fun to bitch about how Apple's ruined your life with your virus infested steaming wreck of a mess of a computer. I guess I must be using mine wrong. But you might want to try deleting Safari's preferences file, in your user library in preferences (com.apple.Safari.plist). You'll need to reenter passwords and user id's for places that require them on your next visit to each. I spend less than a tenth the time maintaining the 4 Macs in the house than I do the 1 PC and 2 Bootcamp/Windows partitions we have here. Macs are far from perfect and they require maintenance, just less of it. Best regards, Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundchris Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 I know it's a lot more fun to bitch about how Apple's ruined your life with your virus infested steaming wreck of a mess of a computer. I guess I must be using mine wrong. But you might want to try deleting Safari's preferences file, in your user library in preferences (com.apple.Safari.plist). You'll need to reenter passwords and user id's for places that require them on your next visit to each. I spend less than a tenth the time maintaining the 4 Macs in the house than I do the 1 PC and 2 Bootcamp/Windows partitions we have here. Macs are far from perfect and they require maintenance, just less of it. Best regards, Jim +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 My computing life became much less frustrating when I removed Flash from my Mac about 4 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Feeley Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 I find Safari, Chrome, and Firefox regularly toss the crashy-code potato between them. So there's always at least one stable browser and one or two unstable ones. I've given up with long-term relationships and am always willing to switch browsers in a particular week or month. As for Flash, I use Flashblock on Firefox and Chrome, and did use ClicktoFlash on Safari (before Safari 5.1 disabled webkit plugins... there are ways around that): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/ http://clicktoflash.com/ With these and other flash blockers, when you visit a site that has some embedded flash content (including video, ads, whatnot), you get a holder window over just that content. You can click on that window to activate the flash content (and you can whitelist specific sites so their flash content always loads), but in default mode flash content doesn't automatically load. Works great (or with Safari, worked great). Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Almalvez Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Chrome is great until the shockwave plugin crashes periodically and you have to empty your cache just to get some pages to load like facebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Capulli Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 I also have a 2011 MacBook Air and it runs Lion perfectly. Its my 'hackintosh' at home that is sluggish with Lion even at 3Ghz Core2Quad and 4GB ram is not enough. The SSD is the way to go for your main drive! Soon I will upgrade my hack to ivy bridge hopefully and I use and like safari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benr Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Another one here that never used/gave up on Safari. Since I use several Macs and PCs and hop between them regularly I had to have a browser thats the same on both platforms and syncs between them all. Firefox I had been using already for years and am still. Google has already too much of my information, Im not going to give them my browsing habits too. Plus the add-ons just make Firefox a better browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taylormadeaudio Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 My computing life became much less frustrating when I removed Flash from my Mac about 4 years ago. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccsnd Posted February 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 what is it like to not see a large percentage of the internet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Wielage Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 Oh, you can see tons of stuff on the internet with Safari, that's no problem. The problem is that Flash seems to fail an awful lot, at least in my Safari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomboom Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 I don't have any problem ditching a site that's entirely created with Flash. It's usually too long to buff anyway and most of the sites I go onto only have embedded Flash for a few frames into their actual webpages here and there. But that's where it hurts; getting those white spaces on my girlfriend's iPad or on my iPhone. And yes, there's more than a few of these actually and knowing that not endorsing Flash for whatever (crappy) reason was a decision made by only a few persons actually makes me... well, ok... This control freak attitude re-enforces my decision to stay with PCs for computing, and maybe keep on going with Apple for leisure equipment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taylormadeaudio Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 what is it like to not see a large percentage of the internet? serious? I don't see a large percentage of the internet every day -- pretty sure I'm ok What percentage of the internet do you see? How would you even quantify that? ok ok... there's an implied meaning there... I get it... so, actually, a better question (more to point, less sarcastic) is what percentage of the percentage of that we don't see is not seen because it's Flash-based? Honestly, I've never really thought about it -- not even for a second. ~tt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McL Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Did a fresh install of Lion. Didn't help. Ran Yasu. It did. All seems stable, fast as I would have initially hoped, but then, I've only been up and running for a couple of hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccsnd Posted February 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 (more to point, less sarcastic) The point of the comment was sarcasm. A large percentage of the internet uses flash. What is it like to not be able to see a large portion of the internet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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