I don’t know about anyone else, but after installing the new Beta of Safari 4 my Finder kept dying. Poor beast would lock up. I’d force quit her and she’d never come back to life. The only way I could get her back was to either A) hard reboot with the metal button on the front of my tower (a PPC G5, mind you), or B) SSH in and:
sudo killall loginwindow
Safari 4 Beta: The Finder Killer
Bummer.
Since uninstalling it, using the included uninstaller (which also hung after the “Restart” prompt, forcing a hard reboot), the problem has cleared up.
Anyway, this is just my experience, but word to the wise people. Beta means beta.
Oh well. Moving on.
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I’ve had it crash twice on me in Mac OS 10.4 running on a G5, but nothing major. And it’s frozen up once on me when I was running it on Windows 7.
But when it works, it’s really fast. The difference in performance when using Gmail is notable.
What I did find annoying is that I had to restart the Mac in order to finish installing. I don’t know a lot about it, but is Safari integrated on Macs like IE is intertwined with Windows?
I’m a Firefox guy all the way. Switched over from Safari — which I admit to having a soft spot for, and preferring in many ways — when Safari failed to work properly with the majority of web apps I needed to use. Now I’m addicted to FF’s extensions and I’ll never go back. So the Safari thing’s not a big huge disappointment for me. Still, I would have liked to have been able to test it out a bit more than I did. I half think my problems stem from my networked home account, but there’s no science to that statement whatsoever and I don’t plan to investigate further. Fun while it lasted, though. I hope they make FF faster someday soon as well. But with my recent addition of AdBlock, FF is much faster than it was.
Wow. That was rambling.
-systemsboy
I’m using Camino most places because I’m tired of Firefox not integrating with Services, Location, Keychain, and so on. I use Safari when I need an “alternate browser”. So I was thinking of trying the new Safari. Even if I think moving the tabs is sheer ashattery. But I think I’ll wait for Beta 2 now…
I use Safari as a secondary browser too. But not enough to sacrifice my Finder.
I’d bet my problems are somewhat unique, as I’ve not heard any similar tales around the Internets. But then, it never hurts to wait. Neil Lee has posted a method for running v3 and the beta concurrently (on a Mac, of course). Not sure it’s really worth the effort either. But might be worth a shot:
http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2009/02/24/safari4-safari3
-systemsboy