anyone else having major problems with Safari 5.1 on Snow Leopard?

I found my plug-ins under the 'Internet Plug-Ins' folder on the HD, and removed every single one of them. Still no luck 😟

Check out this article. Should help.

lenn

Message was edited by: lenn5

I'm also having MAJOR problems with this "update"! I disabled all my extensions & it still uses up nearly all my RAM (5-6GBs!!!), is waaay too slow, & flickers & stutters, & basically made a browser that was working just fine for me, a major nightmare.....

Tons of problems with 5.1. I can't print... just get the animated "preparing" prompt that won't go away until I force Quit. Cosmopod no longer functional (app maker is preparing an update). This seems to be the buggyest update of Safari I've seen in a long time.

5.1 was unbearably slow for me too until I reset it. You need to click the "Remove all website data" button at the bottom of the list when you do. Now Safari is running great again.

I've noticed pages reloading constantly for no apparent reason, and it's maddening.

So Brad, does that mean all my cookies, passwords, forms, etc, are deleted, and I have to start from scratch with every website? If so, that's a real drag, & yet another huge time waste, when 5.05 was working perfectly fine.....

My guess is that it will delete cookies and passwords. Autofill forms shouldn't be affected. And yeah, it's kind of a drag, but it might help until a fix is made available. Mine works fine now. I routinely reset Safari and it runs better every time I do. All that stored-up stuff bogs down my Mac.

Having problems too - Yahoo Mail goes into spining wheel mode everytime. I just went into Time Machine and located a 5.05 version, said restore and I am back to 5.05 and working fine! I'll wait for the bug-fixed version to show up before reinstalling 5.1

Brad, will it keep your open tabs/windows that were open, when it opens after resetting?

Yes - definite bugs in Safari 5.1. I already posted about a graphics glitch - I put up a video and sent Apple a report. Other little quirks make me just want to roll Safari back a version. 1P does work - but doesn't seem to work quite as well. For instance - I keep getting bounced from forums I'm active in - Safari doesn't keep me signed in - can't tell if that's Safari or 1P. The right click menu is gone from 1P. Aesthetically - 1P is improved. Safari doesn't seem to handle flash as well as it did previously - and click-to-flash has been a bit quirky. Scrolling in safari is not smooth right now. All in all - it's a clunky upgrade - and so far no performance improvements that I've been able to observe. In fact, Safari now ties up significantly more memory than it did previously.

I finally spoke with the Apple techs, including one of the higher level guys, and they definitely are working on a fix ASAP! They said NOT to attempt a downgrade to Safari, as any method may cause more problems than it's worth. He promised we'd see an update soon, and to keep checking via Sofware Update....

That's very interesting. Thanks. I'd love to hear some feedback from them on the graphics glitch with 2011 Hardware under Snow Leopard. Right now - I'm actually using FF and Chrome for things in place of Safari. I have a machine with 16 GB of RAM and the clunky scrolling on certain pages has forced me to use a different browser. I guess I could call Apple - but figured noone would really understand what I was trying to describe unless they viewed the video I posted. Here's a link if anyone's interested. http://s1088.photobucket.com/albums/i340/BrianLachoreVPI/?action=view&current=Sc reenRecording.mp4

It's not only about constantly hitting the enter button to allow permission for Safari to connect.

Today my Mac Book Pro, crushed for the first time, since 2006, when I got it. And not only that, it crushed 7 times!

When using Safari, it was becoming unresponsive. Mouse, keyboard were not working, so I had to use power button to shut it down.

I have no other add ons than ad-block and click to flash, so I don't think it's where the problem is.

p.s.

Even when I was writing this post, Safari crashed, crushing my Mac (or may be it's all the way around). I had couple of unsuccessful attempts to start up.

Here's the screenshot of my frozen and pre-unresponsive Mac:

12 crashes today after 5 years of smooth work.

Well... there are clearly some major bugs in the last update.