Safari 5.1.2

[iaJim]

Just upgraded. I hope it gives me back the Safari I always loved. Seems snappier.

[GeneL]

I haven't seen the update yet, but so far 5.1.x has been crappy. Just now, when I opened Safari for the first time today, my toolbar settings had once again been moved all around and my customized settings had disappeared. This wasn't the first time, either. I just never know what I'll see when I start up Safari each day.

Has anyone else had this problem?

[Tofer]

The only thing I've noticed so far is that I've gotten two pop-ups in about two minutes of use. :/

[sekker]

He error I regularly see is a failure to load a site. Very odd.

And it's still there after the update.

[Chakravartin]

sekker wrote:
He error I regularly see is a failure to load a site. Very odd.

And it's still there after the update.

Probably not Safari's fault.

'Might want to add a public DNS server address to the list in your Network pref's as a backup for when your ISP's DNS gets bogged down.

[deckeda]

GeneL wrote:

Has anyone else had this problem?

It might depend on whether or not anyone else also updated to 5.1 with incompatible plugins/extras/admitted unknowns floating around, and then tried to manually backtrack to 5.05 and so on. There are some pretty basic reasons why you shouldn't know what to expect now from Safari, but why you haven't acknowledged them as contributors is the true mystery.

[GeneL]

deckeda wrote:
[quote=GeneL]

Has anyone else had this problem?

It might depend on whether or not anyone else also updated to 5.1 with incompatible plugins/extras/admitted unknowns floating around, and then tried to manually backtrack to 5.05 and so on. There are some pretty basic reasons why you shouldn't know what to expect now from Safari, but why you haven't acknowledged them as contributors is the true mystery.
No doubt I didn't do a good job in trying to revert back to 5.0.5. Thanks to a number of posts explaining what was wrong, I realized my mistake, but wasn't sure how to fix things.

I gave up on trying to revert to 5.0.5 and when 5.1.1 became available I downloaded and installed the update and mostly everything was working fine, for awhile, with a few exceptions. The only extras I'm using now are those that are appropriate to 5.1.

It was yesterday, that I encountered the unexplained changes that I mentioned.

Is there any way to check if I have "incompatible plugins/extras/admitted unknowns floating around" that are interfering and causing my problem or are my issues a product of bugs in Safari 5.1 used with Snow Leopard? And please, explain how to get rid of them, if that's the problem!

Thanks for any help with this.

[Chakravartin]

GeneL wrote:
Is there any way to check if I have "incompatible plugins/extras/admitted unknowns floating around" that are interfering and causing my problem or are my issues a product of bugs in Safari 5.1 used with Snow Leopard? And please, explain how to get rid of them, if that's the problem!

Start by turning off extensions with the on/off slider in Safari's Extension preferences.

If you quit and relaunch Safari and your troubles are gone then one or more of the extensions is at fault.

To find out which extension was at fault, turn on extensions with the on/off slider in the Extensions preference and then disable all extensions by unchecking the "enable..." checkbox for each one in the Extensions preferences.

Enable each extension one at a time (restarting Safari every time that you enable another extension) and watch for the symptoms to return.

Whichever extension is enabled just before the return of the symptoms, that one is probably the culprit. So, go back to the Extensions preference and click the "uninstall" button for that extension to get rid of it.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Chakravartin wrote:
Start by turning off extensions with the on/off slider in Safari's Extension preferences.

If you quit and relaunch Safari and your troubles are gone then one or more of the extensions is at fault.

To find out which extension was at fault, turn on extensions with the on/off slider in the Extensions preference and then disable all extensions by unchecking the "enable..." checkbox for each one in the Extensions preferences.

Enable each extension one at a time (restarting Safari every time that you enable another extension) and watch for the symptoms to return.

Whichever extension is enabled just before the return of the symptoms, that one is probably the culprit. So, go back to the Extensions preference and click the "uninstall" button for that extension to get rid of it.

Wow - just like the original Mac OS!

[Chakravartin]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
Wow - just like the original Mac OS!

Yeah.

Basic Mac troubleshooting hasn't changed much in the last 25 years or so.