“The new Safari 4 preview is, as expected, exhibiting incompatibilities with third-party software, as well as its own share of bugs and stability problems. Users with add-on and ‘haxie’ enhancers for OS X (Finder, Mail, and Safari) might experience problems with the Safari beta. While some problems have fixes, others seem to be stability bugs that will hopefully be addressed by the final release,” MacFixIt reports.
“It is recommended that any user dependent on applications that make use of Safari or the underlying WebKit framework (Mail, iChat, iTunes, and Messenger in particular) avoid installing this beta. The Safari beta will install a new version of WebKit which may have a few bugs that will interfere with these programs,” MacFixIt reports. “The beta does come with an uninstaller, so users who experience problems with these programs can uninstall it and revert back to the previous version.”
The full article covers startup failures, Mail crashes (incl. Growl and other issues), and Gmail, Hotmail, and other issues with web-based apps, here.
