I am still running Snow Leopard on a 7.1 desktop Mac from 2007. I kept getting freezes in Safari, was ready to get a new machine when I simply switched to Firefox and all is fine now. I see Safari is still buggy, so why spend nearly $2000 for the same old problem?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.3.9)
Safari is a part of OS X and the only way to get a newer version is to upgrade OS X.
Trouble is your machine is too old to run the newest version of OS X.
Yhank you!..I am aware of that, don't want or need to install more RAM in order to upgrade the OS as research shows me Safari remains buggy right up to the current El Capitan. My current stuff meets simple needs, email, browsing, photo storage and enough storage space. My question should have been, "How come Safari is still buggy even in the the latest updates and the newest models?"
I have absolutely no trouble with Safari on my 10.11.4 machine.
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With millions of users and millions of web sites, there are always going to be issues of some kind, and most people do not take the time to complain about working things.
You do not know if they have a security packages installed that is interfering with their use of Safari, or if is a plug-in issue, etc... that those people are complaining about.
With respect to your version of Safari, it has not changed in a few years, but the web sites have been moving forwards using new tricks and features that your version of Safari is not keeping up with.
If Firefox works for you, as it is a current, up-to-date browser, that is perfectly acceptable. And if when you do get a newer OS X version, you still want to run Firefox, that is fine as well (Firefox is my primary browser, as it has extensions I find very useful at work and at home; but I also use Safari on El Capitan for some things and I do not have any problems with it).
NOTE: Your signature profile says "iMac, Mac OS X (10.3.9)", which is Panther and PowerPC only. You may want to update your forum profile 🙂
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