Re: The Rapture Is Here: Paul Thurrott Likes Macs

ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <1h8dswr.1jhu4l1c3o0f6N%pa_nihill@xxxxxxxxx>,
> pa_nihill@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Nihill) wrote:
>
> > George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> > > > > I've never had ANY version of Safari crash - ever! What are you doing
> > > > > to
> > > > > make yours crash?
> > > > >
> > > > Launching it, going to a website. Stuff like that.
> > >
> > > How come YOUR copy of Safari crashes and nobody else's does? I'm
> > > verrrrry suspicious.
> >
> > My copy of Safari also crashes quite regularly.
>
> You guys must all have some screwy plug-ins installed or something. I've
> seen Safari crash, but it's not by any means a regular event -- and I do
> lots of pretty heavy web browsing. In terms of render quality and
> performance, Safari is almost certainly the best browser on the
> platform, so it might be worth looking into your stability issues. (You
> might want to start by yanking things out of /Library/Internet Plug-Ins).

The only plug-ins I have installed are the ones for Flash, Java,
Quicktime, Shockwave, RealPlayer, and Windows Media Player. I'd rather
not have to do without any of them, if one of them is to blame.

Although Safari's rendering is very good, I don't agree with you about
the performance. Perhaps this is also related to the stability issues
I've seen, but Safari has a habit of locking up and becoming
unresponsive quite easily, especially if more than one page is rendering
at a time.
.