I've been using Firefox on my mac. This is mostly because I feel like I can't do without all my plugins for various things. It kinda freaks me out to not have things like the AWS tools (s3fox and EC2 UI), various proxy tools, YSlow, Firebug, etc.
Yesterday I went to start up Parallels, but it was running really slowly. When I fired up Activity Monitor, it was mostly Firefox kicking CPU and Memory butt. I thought I'd give Safari a try.
In Tiger, Safari was useless because it didn't have tabs. I can't imagine working without them. Now that Safari has them, I can at least be someone productive.
It's nice. Safari is very light weight and fast. It also doesn't use 10% of my CPU sitting idle, nor does it each all of my memory up.
It worked great yesterday, but this morning it was crashing every couple of minutes. One of my colleagues has had the same problem. The crashes were bothering him so much he actually borrowed my Tiger CD so he could downgrade. After restarting Safari 15 times this morning, I can understand where he's coming from.
I called Apple Support. As usual, they pointed out some feature I had know idea about that seems to have fixed the problem.
In the Safari menu, there is a "Reset Safari..." option. Since I did that, I haven't had any crashes.
I'm a little skeptical. I bet that when I get home and I use Safari without the proxy and then come back to work, Safari will start crashing again. With the weekend coming up, I probably won't know till Tuesday :(
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I tried resetting Safari and it still crashes.
Allot of people behind proxies are having these issues and it seems to happen allot of you get redirected from a webpage that has mydomain.com:443 to something else...
More discussion about this issue on the Apple forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5735428�
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