Safari Still Craps Out Too Frequently
Seriously, it’s 2013. I have 32 GB of RAM. And Safari still craps out all the time and has to reload every page I’ve loaded with as few as 20 tabs open.
Ever since the Safari Web Content process was split off in Lion and sandboxed (the Safari application remains unsandboxed), I’ve been getting into situations where pages stop responding until I quit and relaunch Safari.
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"Ever since the Safari Web Content process was split off in Lion and sandboxed (the Safari application remains unsandboxed), I’ve been getting into situations where pages stop responding until I quit and relaunch Safari."
Safari 5.0.5 still runs like a champ. I avoided the supplemental updates to 10.6.8 precisely to avoid downgrading Safari to the Lion model.
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