Comments on: Despite Safari 4 Upgrade, Safari Becoming Slow and Buggy

By: dan

dan — Sat, 15 May 2010 15:23:13 +0000

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

By: molly

molly — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:12:39 +0000

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.

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By: Aimie

Aimie — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:32:24 +0000

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…

By: Erick

Erick — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:10:40 +0000

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.

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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:12:34 +0000

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:05:51 +0000

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By: John Scott

John Scott — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:58:42 +0000

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.

By: Cafferty

Cafferty — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:18:36 +0000

Safari has become unbearably slow, and at times does not load at all. We use MAC OS 10.4.11