Is Safari still in beta?

I have a pc machine that I just got up to date. Is Safari stable in windows and safe to use? I would like to switch from IE to what I'm used to using on my macs, but should I?

I would say: YES YOU CAN! I'm using it as my default browser and it's great. I recommend you get the latest beta of the ADC website at connect.apple.com - registration is free.
The build available build on the "normal" Apple website is from November and the latest build in the ADC is from February 15th; there's a big difference between those two versions. If you don't want to stick with betas, just be a little more patient. From my experience with the latest Safari for Windows builds, I'd say it's close to a final release.

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Safari 3.0.4 on Mac still a beta?

Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but used search and couldnt find the answer on it.
Is 3.0.4 on a Mac still a beta version? I am trying to get support on a website I visit but they state as 3.0.4 is still a beta they wont support it yet. I can see on PC its beta but is it stil a beta on a Mac? This is on Tiger btw.
Cheers for any answers.

Hi,
The only 'official' confirmation as such is that it is deployed with a [system update|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306297] - if it were beta it would not be included with an official system update:
What's included?
The following modifications are included in this update:
Improvement Platform Category
Includes Safari 3 PowerPC, Intel Internet
Also on [www.apple.com/safari/download] it mentions:
Safari for Tiger
Safari 3 for Mac OS X Tiger is now included in the free 10.4.11 software update.
No mention of beta there either.
Lastly, the version of Safari released with Leopard OS X 10.5 is also version 3.0.4.
Some people may claim they are beta quality, but there are definitely official releases.

Safari 3.01 beta (Windows) too slow on some machines

On certain Windows machines I have, the Safari 3.01 beta is incredibly slow, as reported by a few others in this forum. The pages--any page, from the simple Google search page to local .html files--will ultimately load after minutes, often with pictures and other embedded objects timing out. That this happens with local .html files as well as sites readily accessible in other browsers indicates it's not a connectivity or networking problem per se.
OK, I've now uninstalled and re-installed, with various combinations of clearing out the user settings under the %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Apple Computer or not, and still cannot get around this problem.
I cannot identify anything in common between the machines except for the Safari Beta and that they are Windows XP Professional SP2 systems with all current updates as of now. The particular machine from which I'm posting this has the problem; it's a Celeron 4/2.6 GHz with 1 GB RAM, so it shouldn't be an issue.
Incidentally, this is really an alpha release that doesn't remotely deserve to be tagged as a beta; I know that catching the WWDC deadline to publicize the release was important, but Apple should come clean as to the level of testing and alpha status of this product, even if it is free, considering it is being so publicly advertised and wrongly hyped as fast. I'd trade stability for (reasonable) speed any given day, especially for those of us whose primary interest in the product is Web design QA under different browsers/rendering engines.
Any suggestions?

whaterverfdsa wrote:
Is the problem the system/install of OC or the profile/user. Try reinstalling OC on the "fast" system but use the profile/user of one of the "slow" systems.Have tried the other way around (tried with the "fast user" on the "slow machine" :o)... still slow..)In which case the problem is unlikely to be "server-side". You can also review the Outlook Connector debug logs to see if there is some indication of why the delay is occuring.
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Troubleshooting#Troubleshooting-Logging
I can't seem to get any IMAP telemetry logs from outlook connector....
I wasn't quite sure what was meant when the docs say create a directory imap/<userid>. What is the userid? So I tried some variations. This is for user in the default domain. Tried jdoe, [email protected] and an alias address (it was the mail-value in ldap). Nothing appeared when using the outlook connector, but when I added the account as an imap account in outlook, logs appeared in the jdoe-directory... Doesn't the outlook connector use imap???
Yes it does. Telemetry logs are only created for new connections after the telemetry directory for the user has been created. So you would need to restart Outlook to get the log files.
(btw: imap idle doesn't seem to work when using outlook connector, but works when using imap account...?)It definitely appears Outlook Connector does not make use of IMAP IDLE. A quick search didn't reveal any existing enhancement requests to have this functionality added.
Regards,
Shane.

Safari still FREEZES when I click on iTunes Store Links!!!

Originally this Thread was called: Safari 4.0.3 PPC = FREEZES when I click on iTunes Store Links!!!
Wish I didn't specify the version, so that I could have continued it all as One Thread after the next update, 4.0.4... This Discussion Board doesn't allow the Author of the Top to Edit the Title of the Title of the Topic... Now that Safari 4.0.4 Update has been released, when people see 4.0.3 in the Topic Name, they might be more likely to ignore it. Lesson learnt...
Please review the Original Topic http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10469114 and Reply HERE http://discussions.apple.com/post!default.jspa?forumID=876 so it could be unified as One Thread...
The latest:
After Sleeping my PB G4 during the night, the problem still exist. After Restart, the problem is gone... I'll continue to watch this, and hopefully it won't be happening too often...

So, I thought that starting a New Topic, without a specifying the Old Version 4.0.3 would be a safer bet...
Then you should close the old topic by marking it as Answered or Solved; don't leave them open.
If Safari still freezes, try this:
1. Go to Home/Library/Cookies and delete the Cookies.plist file.
2. Go to Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari and delete the contents of that folder.
3. Go to Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Web Page Previews and delete the contents of that folder.
4. If you don't want to use the Top Sites or Cover Flow features, open Terminal and paste in this command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2
then press Enter or Return and quit Terminal
5. Go to Home/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari and delete the contents of that folder.
6. Go to Home/Library/Caches/Safari and delete the contents of that folder.
7. Go to Home/Library/Safari and delete these files (if you have them):
Downloads.plist
History.plist
Form Values
LastSession.plist
WebpageIcons.db
Then Repair Permissions, restart Safari and see if the problem continues.

Safari 4.0 Beta - Simply amazing!

Unbelievable! ---- Bravo!
I haven't been wow'd by an Internet browser since Microsoft Internet Explorer .5 Beta!
I can't believe what Apple has accomplished in such a short period of time. I've been using Firefox, which is still a fantastic browser, but Safari 4.0 beats Firefox in performance (speed) and features in every way.
I love the fact that I can boot-up Safari 4.0 right into the Bookmarks folder and that it has the look, feel and functionality of Vista Aero.
This is truly an amazing browser, and it might become my default browser by the end of the month.
I haven't encountered any bugs or problems at all in the 3 days that I've been testing it.
To the folks at Apple, a big THANK YOU!

How do I download the Safari 4.0 beta on my iPhone?
You can't until and unless Apple makes an update available which includes it. Software designed for a Mac or PC can't be used on an iPhone.
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Safari 4.0 Beta always crashing on Windows XP...

I had a Windows XP partition (which ended up getting very bad malware, so I deleted it and started a new one) on my MBP, and Safari 4.0 Beta always crashed on it (this was before the malware infection). Now, jump to my new Windows XP partition: so far, Safari 4.0 crashed only once in the few hours I had it (I'm expecting it to probably crash again very soon). Is there any known bug(s) with Safari 4.0 Beta to cause it to crash this often? Am I better off downgrading to 3.x?

So I'm assuming, then, that there are some bugs that need working out with Safari 4.0 Beta for Windows. After all, I've used Safari 4.0 Beta for Mac ever since it was released and I never had it crash once. I guess, if Safari keeps randomly crashing on me in Windows, I'll have to temporarily downgrade to 3.x until they fix this issue with a finalized 4.0...

Loading youtube videos crashes my browser - both mozilla firefox and safari. Now I can't get firefox to load any page, although safari still works. It started when I clicked on a youtube link on FB 2 weeks ago. Any ideas, anyone?

youtube is crashing my browser - both firefox mozilla and safari. Now I cannot load firefox browser at all, but safari still works - except for youtube, which immediately crashes it....any ideas, anyone?

I have had a similar problem with my system. I just recently (within a week of this post) built a brand new desktop. I installed Windows 7 64-bit Home and had a clean install, no problems. Using IE downloaded an anti-virus program, and then, because it was the latest version, downloaded and installed Firefox 4.0. As I began to search the internet for other programs to install after about maybe 10-15 minutes my computer crashes. Blank screen (yet monitor was still receiving a signal from computer) and completely frozen (couldn't even change the caps and num lock on keyboard). I thought I perhaps forgot to reboot after an update so I did a manual reboot and it started up fine.
When ever I got on the internet (still using firefox) it would crash after anywhere between 5-15 minutes. Since I've had good experience with FF in the past I thought it must be either the drivers or a hardware problem. So in-between crashes I updated all the drivers. Still had the same problem. Took the computer to a friend who knows more about computers than I do, made sure all the drivers were updated, same problem. We thought that it might be a hardware problem (bad video card, chipset, overheating issues, etc.), but after my friend played around with my computer for a day he found that when he didn't start FF at all it worked fine, even after watching a movie, or going through a playlist on Youtube.
At the time of this posting I'm going to try to uninstall FF 4.0 and download and install FF 3.6.16 which is currently on my laptop and works like a dream. Hopefully that will do the trick, because I love using FF and would hate to have to switch to another browser. Hopefully Mozilla will work out the kinks with FF 4 so I can continue to use it.
I apologize for the lengthy post. Any feedback would be appreciated, but is not necessary. I will try and post back after I try FF 3.16.6.

Design view different from preview - is muse still in beta testing

I have limited experience with coding html so when Adobe released Muse, I was excited. However, I'm wondering if they released it too soon and/or if it is still in beta testing - which I don't mind but would like to know what I'm dealing with. It seems to have a lot of quirks - mainly that the design view is sometimes different from the preveiw or browser view. I spent over an hour yesterday trying to get text boxes to line up. If there is an hidden element affecting the text boxes, I don't see it. I have moved everything off the page and >selected all
and nothing shows up.
Other issues:
Sometimes paragraph styles do not apply - even though in design view it looks like they do.
Can't find a way to center text vetically in a text box other than adjusting the leading?
Can't find a way to organize assets into folders?
When an object is selected on a page, is there a way to indicate that that is the object in the assests panel?
Sometimes the padding options are not available for no apparent reason.
Thanks to the Adobe staff for being responsive as these issues are discovered. One staff member in particular was very helpful as I was trying to get hyperlinks to work right. But I am STILL having a problem. The text box and the text itself have the hyperlink style applied but as you can see on the Dardanelle and Chad Lawson Trio hyperlinks - the style did not take even though they are both hyperlinks that point to the right URL. -- geezermusicclub is the correct link for Dardanelle - It's difficult to see in the pic, but the Dardanelle and Chad Lawson text color is black but the hyperlink text style is brown.
Persoanlly, I feel Adobe should lower the subcription price while all these kinks are being worked out in Muse. In a way, subscribers are **** a LOT of beta testing for Adobe. Not only are we not being compensated for that, we are having to pay for an application that has too many wrinkles.

Murray and David: it worked! It is a rare and joyous experience to have a straightforward solution to the sorts of problems I come up with (including other realms). But I have to say that with HTML and CSS (and hence with Dreamweaver), solutions to difficulties have seemed within easier reach than in other parts of the computer world.
By the way, I wanted to choose "correct answer" for both your posts, but after making the first click it was no longer available for the remaining post--so I typed "helpful" even though that one was correct too.
Thanks again.
--Paul

I am told I need to update Flashplayer. I have downloaded the update 5 times and installed it successfully on FireFox but Safari still says I need to update. I have gone so far as to restart before re-opening Safari. What am I not doing?

I am told I need to update Flashplayer. I have downloaded the update 5 times and installed it successfully on FireFox but Safari still says I need to update. I have gone so far as to restart before re-opening Safari. What am I not doing?

Enable plug-ins.
    Safari > Preferences > Security
    Web content:
    Is the box next to "Enable plug-ins" checked?
Best.

Safari 4 Public Beta and plugin problems

At the risk of provoking the wagging of many fingers and the raising of many more eyebrows all wondering what was I thinking when I installed a public beta of anything on my editing system I feel (sheepishly) compelled to report that the installation of Safari 4 Public Beta disabled some - but not all - of my Noise Industries FX Factory Pro plugins. Naturally, in the middle of a project. And of course, this took me quite a long time to figure out. And you guessed it, I did multiple reinstallations of FX Factory 2.0.3 (I'm on OS 10.4.11), FCS2 and the OS itself.
After some serious Googling I happened to discover that back in July 2008 some developers working with very early versions of Safari 4 reported plugin conflicts. And the moral of the story is....

David, you're absolutely right. However, I can report that Safari 4 does have a lot of great features. Your turn to try out the next version.
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Is Safari still crashing in Mavericks?

Upgraded to Safari 6.1 in Lion (10.7.5) and now it crashes when I click on some links. (Every time I click on the new iPad Air site link). I see that others are also having similar troubles. Does Safari still crash in Mavericks?

No problems with my MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion (using now) but when I removed Safari extensions and tested as a guest user on my iMac using Lion and even after resetting Safari and emptying caches (which has worked in the past to stop Safari crashes) problem persisted. Will try again later and post crash report.

I was automatically updated to Version 11 which is still in Beta but none of the add ons I need are compatible

I'm VERY frustrated. The new version 11 is still in Beta and I got automatically upgraded without even being asked. As it is 3rd party software I've been sent made for FF hasn't been compatible to V10, so I've lost the ability to use them. How do I shut that feature off?
Now I feel I got stuck with this beta release yet there's almost no add ons compatible with this release and at this point I need them in order to function properly. How do I go back to V10?

Hello. If you are having trouble with the Beta version, uninstall all versions completely. Then go to Mozilla Firefox and install the regular version as if it were new.
When I try a Beta version, I open a new folder (Mozilla Firefox Beta) and install the Beta version there.
I still like the regular version of Firefox. I don't see anything new on this Beta version that I like, and it isn't compatible to my favorite theme or add-ons.
Good luck. :)

I want Safari 4 Public Beta back.

I know the Beta version was for testing, but I liked my tabs on top of the window! I just ran Software Update, but shouldn't have installed the new version of Safari! It was fine (except I had to reach for the corner of each tab to drag, but I got used to it). I googled "Safari 4 Public Beta," but all the links referred me to the new version!
Also, is it just me or does the new version load slower than the Beta version?

Please refer to one of the other many,many,many threads on this same subject here in the forums. They will give you the download link and instructions to reinstall the beta, but do remember that you will do so at some risk, because Safari 4 has addressed over 50 security issues that were not in the beta release. Sometimes it is better to post you specific issues so other users can help you address them and get Safari 4 running as it should like it does for most of the other millions of users who downloaded it and are running it with no problems whatsoever (and so don't bother posting here in the ER.) Good luck
Cheers

Safari still remembers web pages after RESET.

Safari still remembers web pages after RESET.
Is this a bug in new safari alot of people are having issues !!

Ah found it, after reset it will still show purple links like they have been visited. To stop it reset then Quit safari and re-open.
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Safari still crashes

safari still crashes almost every time I use it.
Is anyone else still experiencing this. Apple suggested
I try a full restore but that didn't help.

Safari never crashed on my 2G. It crashes all the time on 3G. I also never had dropped calls on my 2G and I get dropped calls all the time on 3G. I have gotten to a point where I have to keep the phone in 2G mode to be functional.
I think this is an AT&T problem rather than an iPhone problem. But then what do I know?

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