Certain pictures and spots on webpages flicker, disappear, get locked up, etc., on webpages on Safari on Retina MacBook Pro. The whole display has never been affected. It seems to only happen in Safari on websites such as Facebook. I'd take it to an Apple Genius but I can't get it to do it. It seems completely random. What could be causing this?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion
I've been dealing with the SAME EXACT PROBLEM for the last two months. After back and forth with AppleCare for over a month, and replacing the logicboard, it was still happening! I finally got them to send me a new one. It's been fine for a couple days, and now just started happening again. I searched google afterwards and found this post. I don't know what to do at this point. For example, on yahoo's homepage, if you keep clicking the right arrow to go through the different stories... there will be flickering from the previous photo that was on there. Is this the same issue? Also sometimes in text boxes, the cursor and the last couple letters I typed will temporarily dissapear. I guess this is what happens when you buy new technology right when they it comes out, but still there's no excuse. I'm having my old laptop sent straight to an Apple Engineer, because Apple claims they've "never seen this issue before". It's honestly been a huge headache for the past couple months, not sure what to do at this point. The only things I brought over from my original computer were about 30 Word documents, and my pictures that were previously uploaded from my iPhone.
Anyone else out there have the same issues, or know a fix to this?
It is great to know I am not the only one with this issue. However, would be even better to have a fix for it. I have the new retina Macbook and it has already been replaced once. I originally used Chrome, as I always had on my other computer, but it caused problems on this computer. It would just restart on its own or shut down. I researched that issue and found it was common with the new Macbooks too. Replaced computer and switched to Safari.. now this! Very frustrating!!!
Phew! Glad to not be the only one.... after spending thousands on a new MBP the last thing I want is to find major issues with it. A previous poster in Nov suggested Apple now knew about this infuriating issue - any chance of an update from anyone at Apple?
I have the exact same issues on my 15" Retina. I am using the latest version of Webkit (www.webkit.org), and that has helped tremendously with the smoothness and the flickering. I don't really see it anymore. What I do still run into issues with is the inputting of text in text boxes in Safari, with the cursor disappearing, and words and letters disappearing, and reappearing.
I'm having the same issues on a 15" MBP Retina with Safari 6.0.2 and OS X 10.8.2 - mostly on Gmail. Definitely a Safari software problem.
I'm really surprised it's taking Apple so long to fix a pretty serious issue happening to many people.
I also have exactly the same issue, graphical issues/flickering when using Safari, especially for dynamic objects. I'm having this for MONTHS now, please fix it.
I own the 15inch MacBook Pro Retina, bought it in July in Switzerland.
So happy to read about that! I can definitely exclude an hardware issue.
I see heavy flickerings on Facebook using Safari 6.0.2 on my MacBook Pro Retina 15', bought the last month. I really expect a fix from Apple on this huge problem.
I'm on a 2010 15" Macbook Pro and also have this problem (exclusively with Safari). There's absolutely no way it's a hardware problem since it never occured until Safari 6 and doesn't happen in any other software. It's noticably worse with dynamic objects (I see it freqeuently on one of the web-based tools I've built: http://aweathermoment.tumblr.com/metars) and while I've been able to alleviate the problem at times, there seems to be no real fix. Playing with gfxcardstatus can help, but it always seems to return after a short while.
If anything, the fact that gfxcard status can help suggests to me that the root of the problem lies somewhere in Safari 6's new accellerated page rendering engine. Hopefully Apple can squash this bug quickly. Remember that while this is the official Apple Disccusion Boards, it will never hurt to send the Safari team feedback and directly letting them know about this bug: http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html
I have this issue too on MacBook Pro 15" (non retina).
I'm quite sure it is an Java issue combined with the type of video card. Since the most recent version it got worse spontaniously while using Hootsuite in Safari for instance.
So now 10.8.3 is out, but I can't read anything about this issue in the patchnotes. I hope it's solved anyway, if not, I would REALLY appreciate a comment from an Apple employee
I have found this same issue when visiting blog sites that use the updated Disqus commenting system. This new update (plug-in) on blog sites dynamically updates the comments so the user doesn't have to refresh the page to view new comments or replies. The icons show up, but the text boxes and text does not, and then flashes as you mouse over them. Usually when the mouse over causes this, I think it's the video card drivers. I have a mac mini, but can repeat this on my MacAir with the updated Safari and Lion installed. It would be nice if we could get this resolved. My faith in Apple is fading like their stock price.
I've updated to the latest 10.8.3, and I've found so far that the flickering and the scrolling performance has been much improved. I also found that typing in text boxes no longer has the bug where the cursor disappears and the letters disappear. So far so good on my Macbook Pro Retina 15".
I'm experiencing this problem with Macbook Pro Retina, OS 10.8.3, with Firefox, and without Firefox being open. I also have several display "bright spots" which appear to be LED backlight issues.
I'd say the issue is still a problem.
I have the same problem, I just bought a new retina mac book pro and it flickers too much when browsing.
Updating to the OSx 10.8.3 fixed my issues, but I'm on a mac mini that's at least three years old - so the video card is not the same as what's used in the retina (newer) devices....
Display flickering in Safari-Retina MacBook Pro
