Tiger Safari Improvements

On 2 May 2005, at 12:23 :48, Nicholas Barnard wrote:
> I've noted the new version of Safari in Tiger has broken the normal
> web browser curse of being a memory leak fiasco. Under Jaguar and
> Panther I watched Safari just gobble more and more memory until it
> would crash. (It wasn't uncommon to see Safari using 150 MB of memory
> with only on or two browser windows open.)

10482 Safari 0.9% 45:29.12 13 328 1602 161M 42.9M
165M 430M

that's 165 RSIZE and 430 VSIZE.

I've had Safari up for days and days at a time and never noticed much
of a problem with it crashing (occasionally some stupid flash site
will crash it, but that doesn't seem to have anything to do with how
long Safari is up).

(currently it's been running since 1400 on Friday)

An old problem has resurfaced for me (and many others if you go by the discussion board at Apple), namely, that some banks and stock brokers web sites don't accept log-ins from Safari again. I used to have this problem (in an early version of Panther, I believe), but it eventually was fixed. Now it's back, so I have to used Internet Explorer for this. Even Internet Explorer under OS9 doesn't have this problem.

On 11 May 2005, at 13:23 , k_cohen wrote:
> An old problem has resurfaced for me (and many others if you go by
> the discussion board at Apple), namely, that some banks and stock
> brokers web sites don't accept log-ins from Safari again. I used to
> have this problem (in an early version of Panther, I believe), but
> it eventually was fixed. Now it's back, so I have to used Internet
> Explorer for this. Even Internet Explorer under OS9 doesn't have
> this problem.

Probably the banks are checking the Broswer version and choking on
the 2.0.

Try this:

1. Quit Safari
2. open up the terminal
3. defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
4. open Safari
5. Go to Debug menu and set your UserAgent
6. Go to clueless bank

(I like "Use transparent window" also, everyone else seems to hate
it, violently :)