Javascript bugs in Safari 6 on Mountain Lion

I have Chrome installed and depend on it periodically for the websites that Safari cannot render well enough to function, but for me I find that scroll lag is atrocious in Chrome. So I'm left jumping back and forth. On my end, Safari is smooth but broken; Chrome is laggy but functional. Meh.

I agree: when functioning, I certainly prefer Safari and only use Chrome for pages where I need to access Flash. But I'll certainly take mediocre Chrome over frustrating Safari for day-in, day-out use.

That said, everything has been smooth on my end since I reset Safari.

have the same issues (white squares within the webpages).

once I deactivate GlimmerBlocker (v1.5.1 - www.glimmerblocker.org), probelms are gone. Odd!

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The Safari reset bought me about 48 hours of peace. The problems returned tonight, albeit in a different way: the blocks were not blank, but filled with whatever was previously over that same area. So, basically, a partial GMail window within a full one in the same area. Ditto Facebook and some other sites.

Try Webkit, the latest nightly build is available here

http://nightly.webkit.org/

This has certainly improved things

Nice work, many JS work ok but other work different see this :

www.mialuis.it

Even though this problem is 3 months old I encountered the same problem (Jquery not loading) on my MPBr and it became pretty annoying as a lot of websites use this library.

If you have the same issue that I had (Failed to load resourcehttp://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js) you may try that :

- Open your hosts configuration file (type in a terminal : sudo pico /private/etc/hosts)

- Check if there's a line (or more) "127.0.0.1 ajax.googleapis.com"

- Delete it (or them)

- Save

It is really strange that I had such an entry in the host file as I never added it... But it solved the problem.

I hope it'll help people still having that issue and searching on this topic 🙂

Delete this? (Sorry for seeking clarification, but I am never in Terminal and don't want to screw anything up even worse!)

No the line must be "127.0.0.1 ajax.googleapis.com", if you don't have it, your problem doesn't come from that file. Don't delete "127.0.0.1 localhost"

It worked for me !!! great ! FInally ! thx a lot Ludovic !

Here we go again, same exact problems with the webkit: typing in text boxes shows flickering and errors, large blocks of broken website content, gifs load improperly, and going back a page almost always yields a white screen.

Dear Apple,

Please make Safari a functional browser. This is embarassing.

Sincerely,

Customer who spent $2500 on a laptop that can't surf the internet as well as a $250 bargain PC laptop

That is horrible! I get similar ones in many websites. I can't believe Apple has not fixed this. They should be ashamed. They are just worried about iphones and ipads and ignoring the Mac. Happy New Year.

Everyone is correct. Safari is a trainwreck right now on Mountain Lion. I was just using Chrome because Facebook was not rendering correctly.

No idea what Apple is thinking.

@ gnuyoga

gnuyogaI had the same problem with "blank" areas in Google Reader / mail.

Than I found out via Disk Utility -> Verify Disk that I had ONE big file (eyeTV recording) with a bad block count. After booting from the recovery partition and repairing the disk, all these Safari problems are gone. Very odd!

So my recommendation: use Disk Utility and check if this helps..

Cheers