[jweubanks3]

I instantly disliked Safari 4, because it does not track the progress of the page download with the light blue bar moving across the URL window. The replacement spinning wheel only feeds my infuriation towards Apple for having traded a really cool feature for a really stupid feature. Just what does the spinning wheel tell us about the progress of the current page download? Will the page display in the next second, or will it time out in the next half hour?

[jweubanks3]

I instantly disliked Safari 4, because it does not track the progress of the downloading pages with the light blue bar moving across the URL window. The replacement spinning wheel only feeds my infuriation towards Apple for having traded a really cool feature for a really stupid feature. Just what does the spinning wheel tell us about the progress of the current page download? Will the page display in the next second, or will it time out in the next half hour?

[jweubanks3]

I just read the September Macworld review of Safari 4.0 on page 33. Based on the review, the Safari 4.0 designers must also walk on water. The Macworld reviewer had nothing but good things to say about Safari 4.0. It states things like "... bolts on a jumbo jet engine's worth of pure speed." Yet, it seems slower that Safari 3.x to me. The only criticism was "a bigger file size and slightly slower startup times." How could the reviewer miss the loss of the load bar?

[Hootayah]

It's definitely slower. Especially after you've been using it a couple of months.
I was starting to think there was something wrong with my connection. In the time it took Safari to open a page, I managed to start my Opera app, type in the address and surf to it before Safari had even finished loading.
Combine that with the forms/postal code problem and lack of progress bar & I can't handle it anymore.
It's like using a broken browser.

[jmelton]

I've found that Safari 4 crashes extremely frequently. I like the features and the speed, but I can't use it if it's going to crash that often. Anyone else had this problem?

[bebopredux]

Safari 4.0.3 here and I am getting fed up with it. There are a few adblockers out there but, they all suck. Glimmerblocker shows hope but, I still can't go to the Drudge Report without getting nailed with the in your face ads. I have tried SafariBlock and AdBlock and they don't do it either. You have to run SafariBlock in 32 bit mode too! Unacceptable in my book.

Truth be told, ever since going with Snow Leopard on both my iMac and MBP Safari has sucked. Pages take forever to load on some sites and when I click on a link, I have to usually reload the page to view it. I have repaired permissions. Reset Safari. Trashed the plist. Run Onyx. Run Cocktail. You name it, Safari is an embarrassment. Now, I know this will elicit the "I never have any problems!" responses but, this is the case on my Macs as well as my 2 other Macs in the house. It's not any network settings either. The Apple Support forum has other posts about this. To date, nothing done about it.

Why can't someone make a decent, that works, adblocker for Safari? Why does this version of Safari suck compared to others?

Firefox drives me nuts. It used to be my choice but, it too has a lot of problems. To me it seems we've taken a big step backwards. I'd think that web browsing would be much improved from 2 years ago. It's not IMO.

Am I the only one that thinks no web browser is good enough? Camino? Lacking. Google Chrome promising but, that'll take years. OmniWeb? Puhleeze. The navigation on the side is insane. Why not tabbed browsing at the top?

I'm stuck with what is unfortunately. It should be much better. Come on Apple.

Sure enough, I click "submit" on this post and the page is loading and loadiing...........and loading......until I hit reload. Aaarrrggghhh!

This post has been edited by bebopredux: 22 September 2009 - 06:47 AM