“Long gone are the days when Apple CEO Steve Jobs got up in public and said that Internet Explorer was his Web browser of choice. In early 2003, Apple created its own browser, Safari, and started bundling it free within Mac OS X. With Apple Safari RSS, Apple has not only added unique and useful features, such as integrated Real Simple Syndication (RSS), but has also made Safari arguably the fastest Web browser for the Mac platform,” Daniel Drew Turner writes for ZDNet. “Safari’s speed gains and unique new features push it to the head of the pack.”
Full article here.
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Thank you, MDN!!
That ad was a pain in the a**.
If Safari 2 is so great, why does this animated GIF make it crash?
See if it crashes for you:
[safe for work but will make Safari crash]
Safari was very fast until I upgraded to Tiger. Now I have to wait every time a page is loaded. I had to eventually turn off RSS support.
Strange, I find Safari 2 slower and much more apt to not display pages at all without reloading a few times. It doesn’t come anywhere near the speed of Firefox or Camino. Just my experience.
In fact, I avoid it when testing internet connections because it’s so slow.
I am hearing about a lot of problems from friends who upgraded to Tiger. Should I upgrade or wait?
sounds like propaganda… isn’t firefox faster and a better renderer than slow-fari
Safari 2 isn’t faster in my experience (at least with Tiger). I get a beachball everytime I try to open up a link in a new tab. Must be a good 3-4 second delay before it opens the tab and starts downloading content.
Very annoying.
In my experience, Safari 2 is much better and faster then before. My previous Safari slow-down seemed to be stored form info, cookies etc., as I have many many logins and passwords stored along with extensive form info (from working on shopping carts etc).
I even switched back from Firefox. As long as Safari keeps up it’s speed anyway. I’ll switch back when it seems necessary.
If you’re getting a beachball everytime you go to a page try deleteing the library of little address bar icons the program builds up.
Safari is one thing and Tiger is another. Safari 2 is just a dog, to be honest. It never seems to finish loading pages completely and on a site that is fraught with ads like MDN, it’s horrible.
Try Camino, it’s even faster than FireFox lately.
Obervation:
To load MDN completely Safari took 7.5 seconds.
Camino took about 1.5 seconds.
Yeah, there must be some trouble with Safari & Tiger. Ever since I upgraded I also get the beachball of death when I load new tabs, especially if those tabs have Quicktime content. Oh, and Quicktime 7 is the slowest! I can’t stand it, wish I could revert to Quicktime 6.5 or whatever the last version was.
Haven’t found any browser I like yet. Keep trying Camino… yes fast, but after a few hours use and a few tabs it becomes increasingly flaky. Same with Firefox. So back with Safari 2 which is faster than previous versions and not as crashy as firefox and camino.
Wow. I haven’t had any problems like the posters above. I use both Safari and Firefox in 10.4.1 and they’re about the same in speed on my Mac, with Safari maybe a tad faster. If you’re regularly getting the spinning beachball with Safari, to me that’s indication of something more serious than just a slow browser. Maybe give a disk repair utility a whirl?
One annoyance: Why did Apple get rid of “Save As…” in the contextual menu when right-clicking on an image? Now the only option for saving an image is to the default download directory.
You’d better clear your caches first. I {expect} most of us have MDN partly cached.
A site like this loading in 1.5 seconds on my machine with ANY browser is one that still has some content cached from the last visit.
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psyduck isn’t killing safari right now, and it’s running in the background….
I only noticed a slow down in Safari (in Tiger) after I installed Adobe CS, before that it was great, now it’s like surfing with a 14.4.