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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

239 replies

Oct 24, 2012 7:22 AM in response to Shawn McCuan

Same problem here with mid 2010 MBP. The problem is most noticeable and aggravating in gmail, but crops up in other sites as well.

Oct 25, 2012 12:36 PM in response to steve_williams

I do encounter the exact same issues on my MBP late 2011: Google Reader, lightbox images, and other stuff is flickering while scrolling in Safari 6 on Mountain Lion. No issues like those before, it really starts to get annoying :-/

Nick M.

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Oct 25, 2012 2:34 PM in response to Shawn McCuan

Add me to the list of those experienceing rendering issues. Confirmed once I saw the screenshots that others posted. I'm running a brand new 15" rMBP, Safari 6.0.1, OSX 10.8.2. Something tells me we aren't going to see a fix for this anytime soon...

I don't believe I've experienced the issue in Chrome. Le sigh...Safari was just starting to look attractive, too.

djf_jeff

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Oct 25, 2012 2:40 PM in response to Shawn McCuan

The problem seems to reside in the use of the integrated graphic card. If I start VirtualBox (which switch my laptop to use the Nvidia card), the problem goes away.

This seems to be the case for many people on different forums. As I usually have VirtualBox opened, this bug doesn't cause me a big problem.

But when I surf on battery while taking a coffee (so no VirtualBox), this issue always happen.

Sjors

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Oct 26, 2012 5:20 AM in response to djf_jeff

You're right. When I turn off "automatic graphics switching" in the "energy saver" settings panel, everything renders perfectly. This starts to get really annoying...

I have an early 2011 MBP with the default dual graphics cards.

Oct 26, 2012 7:54 AM in response to Shawn McCuan

When I turned off "automatic graphics switching" it didn't help. I am installing the newest webkit right no.

Oct 27, 2012 4:37 PM in response to Shawn McCuan

I sometimes get black bands or 1/2 pages rendered (I scroll down but second half of webpage is missing). If I resize the window, the bands go away. It would seem a repaint event is getting dropped somehow.

MacBook Air 11, Mid 2012

Mac OSX 10.8.2

Safari 6.0.1

Nov 2, 2012 10:25 AM in response to Nick Galbreath

Anyone with any experience on Safari 6.0.2 - wondering if it might have picked up a fix for this?

Nov 2, 2012 10:27 AM in response to mjrwhitehead

Hoping for the same thing. I haven't been able to update Safari through Appstore. Keep getting the “(NSURLErrorDomain fejl -3001.)(102)“ error. Obviously I'm not the only one.