Will Apple Finally Fix Safari Close X Going Missing Issue?

Sorry - we would have no way of knowing that. We are just users like you.....🙂

However, if you would like to register your question/issue to Apple, you can do so here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Cheers,

GB

Neither I nor the users I have to support have ever seen the X in a tab go missing. I think that is a problem with your Mac.

Allan

PJ --

I see you're also having a problem with the mouse pointer in Safari.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5101528

I would not be surprised if both problems are related to something you've installed.

Have you tested by disabling your extensions yet?

PJ --

Glad to see you've found the solution for you. Can you come back and tell us which app/extension was the culprit?

Hey, thanks so much.

That's going to help a lot of future readers here, Marco.

😎

No it's not. It's suddenly missing on my iPad as well. In fact, it is just many of the disastrous effects of ios 8. I now have a machine- iPad 2- that feels like my lousy Asus computer running Windows 8-- everything is sluggish, odd things like sounds which used to occur no longer occur- like when plugging in power, notes load like a slug, email loads even more slowly, problems running Youtube, etc. In my opinion the whole rollout of this new system is a disaster. I can't find one new thing I like about it, and it has made me seriously reconsider whether to ever buy Apple again. All the hyperbola...for this??? Absurd. they need to get their shop in order before releasing garbage onto the market. Less money spent glorifying the technology, more time spent doing what Steve Jobs did- make it right, make it bloody simple and elegant, and get it right the first time.

I'm having problems with cut and paste as well. And links in Notes continually malfunction. What a joke!

Oh, and by the way I just began to erase and rewrite part of this post, and now instead of it speeding along erasing single letters then slowing to erase entire words, it slows... to continue erasing single letters.

Second time I tried to save this:

Oh, and by the way I just began to erase and rewrite part of this post, and now instead of it speeding along erasing single letters then slowing to erase entire words, it slows... to continue erasing single letters.

THe transition from one app to another used to be flawless and fast. Now it happens in slow motion, with the apps expanding and disappearing slowly into the black depths of the screen like a sad defeated Starship Enterprise.

I had the same issue, but it goes deeper than that at least for me. There was no way to quit Safari when I lost the x's. Cmd Q didn't work and the Quit in the menu was all greyed out. I had to force quit from the Activity Monitor and restart Safari. Then everything is working again, at least for now. This is a definite bug with Safari, and we just have to wait for the update.

What does an iPad have to do with a Mac? Totally different operating systems. And, that post was written over a year ago, so even if it had been about an iPad (which it is not), a year is a long time, and a lot of thing change, so the remark may have no longer been true, but it was undoubtedly true when it was written.

Have you updated to iOS 8.0.2 yet? Many iPad users are reporting that the update has fixed many of the issues introduced with iOS 8.0

Cheers,

GB