Despite Safari 4 Upgrade, Safari Becoming Slow and Buggy
Despite our love of Safari when it was upgraded to version 4, that love was short-lived. We have found out that between Mozilla Firefox, Safari 4 and Internet Explorer 8, Safari 4 loads web pages the slowest. At first we were impressed with the speed of the Safari 4 Beta browser but putting it under a little browsing stress (opening multiple tabs), the slow performance of Safari 4 became more evident.
How about you? How do you find the performance of Safari 4.0.2, the latest version? Still buggy? Slow loading?
To be honest, we also experienced some problems loading the browser itself. We were only able to do that when we started our computer running Windows Vista. For us, that really sucks! Because of this, we’re back to using the equally buggy Firefox 3.5.2 and Google Chrome. Though these have their own flaws, they open webpages faster now that they have been updated.
Tell us what you think. Post your comments below and let’s compare our experiences.
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Safari has become unbearably slow, and at times does not load at all. We use MAC OS 10.4.11
Especially slow in Snow Leopard although some think this could be a network issue in Snow Leopard. I have similar slowness with Firefox too.
Safari 4 is a big file and I think they may have made it bloated to say the least. I think the return to a more basic and lighter browser for resources will have to come. Flash also still seems to be a problem for Safari. I have generally moved to Firefox on the Mac.
Oddly Safari seems to do better on my Vista machine. Things that make you go Umm.
[...] – a more lightweight version of FF because it uses the same basic engine as the latter, and Safari 4 (which turned out to be very slow and buggy later on). In fact we even did not blog about the [...]
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IMO, Safari 4 looks and works great on Mac OS X, but not on Windows. If you compare Safari 3 and 4 on a Windows machine, you’ll notice Safari 3 is much more polished than Safari 4. Safari 4 has a weird interface and Safari 3 looks more like Mac OS X does. This meaning that people that use Safari 3 on Windows that are going to make a move to Mac OS X won’t have a hard time getting used to their favorite web browser.
I don’t find it that slow but it has issues loading images from certain sites that contain a lot of pictures or flash. The images sometimes just don’t finish loading or I will get a blue bar with a question mark where an image is supposed to be. I guess it’s a sign that Safari is unable to load pages fast and properly? I don’t have that issue with Firefox 3.5. Needles to say, I am switching to Firefox…
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Safari 4.0.5 is unbearable with Gmail now. As I type my emails, the content showing on screen is waaaaaay behind my typing. It’s really irritating. I know it isn’t Gmail, because it’s fine using Firefox. Apple needs to fix this.
safari has never been too slow for me. the problem that I have is it crashes like once a day for no reason and doesn’t start up again. It’s getting very annoying, the only reason I stick with it is I hate the look of the other browsers