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safari rendering issues

I have been getting some strange rendering issues since upgrading to OSX Mountain Lion/Safari 6. They seem to be fairly random, and happen accross multiple sites, even "big sites" like YouTube. I will get "artifacts" left behind, and I'm even getting them now as I'm typing this message with the text. Because is seems to be so "random" I have no idea what's causing it, but, it's very distracting and obnoxious when the artifacts interfere with navigation. Is anyone else experiencing these problems?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6), iPod Touch 32GB (4th Gen)

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 10:21 PM

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Feb 17, 2013 6:23 AM in response to Shawn McCuan

This started as soon as I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I never had this issue with Snow Leopard or Lion on this MacBook Pro. Chrome works fine, no redraw issues so I know it's Safari/Mountain Lion. I'm surprised this has gone for as long as it has without Apple addressing this issue.


Here's a video a made a while back of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA8EeZCVnQ4

Feb 17, 2013 6:16 PM in response to LOLuMad

Yeah but you didn't read it closely enough, the rendering issues specific to the one you made a video about are already fixed in these new 10.8.3 builds, however the other CSS3 related bug (which you will notice I was the poster of the Stackoverflow question) is not addressed but I can say that at least on my machine the weird-*** flickering of page sections have not come back.


On a rMBP Safari is pretty much the only pleasant browser to use due to the GPU acceleration: every other browser including Chrome scrolls super slow and is worse for battery life due to the CPU being overburdened by rendering pages at the ridiculous display resolution.

safari rendering issues

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