![]() In the past year or so, Flash has been taking a serious beating. Flash sites started popping out, but besides the good looks, I never liked the functionality they provided. In my case, with every Safari disaster, I would get the following pop-up:įlash was a cool piece of technology back in the day where everything on the Internet was static and blend. With the Mac OS X updates that occurred afterwards, the users were finally able to see what was crashing their Safaris. Which plugins? Officially, he said plugins in general, but unofficially he meant Flash. What was the problem with Safari? Was the quality assurance procedure in this Apple division not up to the usual high standards? My questions were answered by Bertrand Serlet, Apple senior VP of software engineering, who at the WWDC 2009 keynote announced a new way to run plugins in Safari.įrom the feedback they got from the Crash Report app, the majority of Mac OS X crashes were caused by plugins. Sometimes I had the feeling I was somehow transported back to the Windows Me era. Even on my 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with 4 GB of RAM, I’ve seen Safari killing the entire system, making it unresponsive for periods of up to two minutes. In the past six months or so, I’ve been witnessing Safari constantly hanging and crashing. I’ve been using Safari as a primary browser and, until recently, it worked perfectly. When you spend 10+ hours a day on your computer, you need for everything to run without hiccups, strange crashes and zen situations that test your brain power and patience. What I really love about Macs is that they just work. I have been a satisfied Mac user for quite some time now.
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