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Seems to improve performance in Leopard/Safari

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Contributed by: CraigP Wednesday, December 05 2007 @ 02:00 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

The performance issues with Safari in Leopard and Flash video was really starting to get on my wick. There seemed to be some kind of memory leak, and required Safari to be force-quit after some limited time.

Thankfully, this seems to have been resolved with this update.

On a more general note: I love Flash. Its cross-platform nature, and Adobe's move into HD video, means that more people will be able to get video in the way the publishers intended. Every platform has a level playing field - and for once, content makers have an effective way to distribute their content using a platform that isn't Real or Windows Media. It may still be proprietary, but at least all platforms are covered!   
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Seems to improve performance in Leopard/Safari - aballard

How are you getting this installed. I have tried 10 times and failed on all attempts.

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Wednesday, December 05 2007 @ 05:43 PM PST


Seems to improve performance in Leopard/Safari - CraigP

I had loads of problems with the installer saying that I've got web browsers open - and I absolutely didn't. Problem was, other users on my machine had some open. Look through Activity Monitor to see what's open (make sure you look at 'All processes', not 'My processes'). Failing that, reboot and do the install as the first thing you do.

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Thursday, December 06 2007 @ 04:09 AM PST


Seems to improve performance in Leopard/Safari - CraigP

I may have been a little quick off the mark there, with my comment about it fixing the performance issues. I'm pretty sure its as bad as it was before.

Weird.

It only seems to happen when I play Flash-based internet video. My entire machine grinds to a halt, Safari uses about half my active memory, and I have to force-quit it.

I think I'm off to try Camino since its new release...

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Thursday, December 06 2007 @ 04:08 AM PST