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Title: Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: Mr. Lothario on February 04, 2004, 12:24:27 am I updated to version 1.2 of Safari last night, and I am perceiving a significant speed increase in loading pages. It finally seems as fast as the PC version of IE. I'm wondering if it's my imagination or if you guys are noticing similar speed improvements.
Unfortunately, the new version still contains the implementation bugs that have annoyed me since the Safari beta, such as the inability to use Page Up/Down and Home/End in the Bookmarks display, the incredibly slow loading of the Bookmarks menu, the inability to autocomplete bookmarks via page name rather than URL, and the delay in jumping to anchors until the entire page is loaded. Fortunately, they finally modified downloading of links and images so that you can choose where to save the download. That is a vast improvement over Safari simply dumping everything into your preset download location. Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: kami on February 04, 2004, 12:26:06 am Yeah, I'm definately getting a page rendering boost, quite amazing really.
Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: spike on February 04, 2004, 12:32:23 am can you give me a link for this? i tried software update but i didnt work. i guess ill troll the apple site.
Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: Scrach on February 04, 2004, 01:04:46 am To download new Safari go to
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/safari.html Question: is it worth the money to upgrade to Panther or should I just wait till I can snag a copy off my Gramps or one of my freinds? Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: spike on February 04, 2004, 01:16:28 am thanks
yeah, I'm seeing an improvement and yes, panthar is worth the money. its sooo good..... Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: Mr. Lothario on February 04, 2004, 01:19:08 am Yes, jump on Panther. It's definitely worth what they're charging.
Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: Jeb on February 04, 2004, 03:14:40 am the new safari is much faster when it renders tables, and the like. However it still contains it fair share of nasty css incompatibilities, as well as not supporting certain html tags. However the css problems can usually be placed squarely on the web designer. But naturally you can expect these things if your not using ie 6x on windows xp.
if you want the nerdy low down on mac browsers http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/browser_chart/index_mac.html the new version of firebird is still now the most compatible, and fastest browser on mac. Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: spike on February 04, 2004, 03:57:26 am well does it have google in the top right corner? cause shit man, thats what sold me on safari
Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: Supernatural Pie on February 04, 2004, 04:05:51 am What sold me on safari was not only the google bar, but tabs. Tabs are soooooo hot. 5 different web pages all in one window with super-convenient switching among them... very nice.
Anyway, I'm never really good at judging speed increases with updates, cause i can't remember exactly how fast pages loaded in the earlier version. Oh well... still freakin' fast! Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: *DAMN Elandrion on February 04, 2004, 12:39:03 pm just noticed that the new Safari does some strange things to the *DAMN BL site, which heavily uses CSS:
* The use of the "padding" attribute has been changed * <input> tags (buttons, checkboxes, menus, ...) can now be resized with the "font-size" attribute. Elan Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: |MP|Cringe on February 05, 2004, 11:47:38 pm Yes, it is noticably faster.
Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: BFG on February 06, 2004, 06:07:52 am Get panther if yo u havn't allready, and yes my safari seems faster... faster than IE although it has been for well quite some time! I bloody hate IE
Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: th.Sentinel on February 07, 2004, 12:36:03 am Mb its my comp, but Safari is running slower then ever. It took me 2 mins to get in the DAMN site. :(
The only site that loads quicker is the apple site. And flash with php database isn't correctly supported, the text just doesn't appear anymore... Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: BFG on February 08, 2004, 01:41:18 am sounds very odd... not had any problems like that..
Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: |MP|Nomad on February 09, 2004, 06:35:57 am I love Safari, but the only thing that apple should have done was to keep what IE has, that is, when you run your cursor over a link it will tell you in the bottom left corner box whether the link is a .jpeg or .mpg or others. I really depend on this feature, especially when looking at p__n :)
Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: th.Sentinel on February 09, 2004, 09:42:00 am I believe you can turn that option on somewhere in the prefs or in the window options. Its called status bar.
Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: Cobra on February 09, 2004, 01:48:25 pm Yeah, go to the View menu, then Status Bar.
Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: |MP|Nomad on February 09, 2004, 02:36:24 pm OMG your right!! :D Thanks Sentinel & Cobra. You just made my day much brighter fellas, good job. :)
Title: Re:Is The New Safari Faster? Post by: BFG on February 10, 2004, 12:19:23 am lol... now you can navigate around your p0rn websites with so much more ease lol ;)
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