Loved Safari 4 Beta....now I think i am going back to Firefox.

I am a long time Firefox user. When the Safari 4 beta came out, I tried it and finally thought I would be using Safari and enjoy it. Now, with this final release, it is slower, the tabs are back on top, the overall appearance is not as appealing as the beta...etc. I think I may go back to Firefox. Why did Apple screw this one up?

I agree with the loss of speed. On my MBP, Safari is just limping along. Load times are clearly longer...
I am pleased to see that "Clear recent searches" is back but not happy with the stupid spinning "loading" icon. I much prefer the blue URL/progress bar thing from the past, because it actually imparted information to me. The spinning icon does nothing... And isn't it weird that this never appeared in the Beta release? Isn't that what betas are for? To test things?
Also, I still mourn the move of the refresh button. From my perspective that is a part of the navigation and as such, should be up there with the other buttons...not in some other location.

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Quit the mail app completely and restart the iPad. Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Double tap the home button and the task bar will appear with all of your recent/open apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner of the app that you want to close. Tap the home button or anywhere above the task bar. Restart the iPad.
Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.
See if that helps.

TS4069 all of a sudden i can't get incoming mail. I can send just fine. I deleted my account and then reintalled it; now it only shows emails going back one month and still not receiving new ones.

I cannot receive incoming mail all of a sudden on my I-Pone 4. I deleted my comcast account and then set it up again as suggested. Now it only loaded messages beginning one month ago; and still not receiving any new. Any ideas?

There are only two things that I can suggest.
The first is to try the Mail Setup Assistant.
The other is giving Mozilla's Thunderbird a shot - setup the account and see if it will work with this free email app. I don't like Mail at all - and it gives some people fits around here (I don't know how many times people have posted about problems with outgoing servers using Mail).
Try both methods - I don't use Mail - I use MS's Outlook (and, before that, Entourage). If the Setup Assistant offers no relief, just try Thunderbird and see if it works with it.
Good luck,
Clinton

I can no longer get the Fox news page on your browser. I have been trying all afternoon, and it is my home page. I opened Safari and it came right up. Went back to Firefox, and still kept getting error.

The page just waiting to load. Although a couple of times that I tried, it popped up a message saying that there was an error loading the page or the website had changed it's address.

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Activation issues related to Safari Beta 3 uninstall

I am wondering if others have had this experience: It seems that if Safari Beta 3 is installed and then uninstalled, it may still leave behind software that prevents login of Safari 2 and iTunes (Version 7.3) into secure web sites. This includes the initial activation of the iPhone. One connects the iPhone to the computer (my PowerBook G4 Aluminum) and iTunes keeps looking for the Apple Store and ultimately does not connect. A similar issue occurs with Safari 2 (if 3 Beta was uninstalled before). In Safari 2, dot Mac, banking, etc; any site that requires a secure connection will continue to try to connect and ultimately time out. I have had to switch to FireFox to log into this forum! Safari 2 could not do it. I suspect many people are having problems with iPhone activation and are mistakenly thinking that the servers are overloaded (when the are not). I switched to an older PowerBook and my iPhone activated in 3 minutes. This older computer had never seen Safari 3. I beleive Safari 3 is not completely uninstalled and may cause secure website connection failure in iTunes and Safari 2.

I am the author of both posts. At least on my computer, the secure proxy was the problem and not Safari 2 or 3. Actually, Safari 2 works fine and now I am testing Safari 3 and it works fine with secure web pages. I think the initial problem with activation of my iPhone was due to the Secure Proxy being checked (I'm not sure why it was) and iTunes was looking for a secure proxy and would not connect to the iTunes Store to activate the iPhone.

CS2, I loved it but now after a computer death and a new install on a new PC the registration program won't take the code and continually needs to bee registered, how do I fix it without buying a new version.

Some time back I was in college and purchased a copy of CS2, I loved it but now after a computer death and a new install on a new PC the registration program won't take the code and continually needs to bee registered, how do I fix it without buying a new version.

Oh, for Pete's sake, folks! The forum FAQs state very clearly that posters should always perform a forum search BEFORE POSTING.
This question has been asked and answered here ad nauseam here. I'll bet there are dozens of such questions here in the last few months.
How To Get Help Quickly
Before you Post:
Firstly - have you really checked the 'help' option in the program? Many problems can be solved far faster by getting the answer from the Help File.
Secondly - check the Forum FAQ folder. There's advice there on many common questions and problems
Thirdly - use the 'Knowledgebase Search' option near the top of this page. Or you can click here to go to the relevant page and enter your search words there - or just search for 'Photoshop' there to see summaries of all the relevant items.

Should web images be sharpened or does Photoshop just "handle" jpegs better now & it's unnecessary

We have between 3-4MB "full size" print-quality product images that get downsized to about 204px wide x 300, and then proportionally smaller yet to 135 wide and 100 wide for our website.
The graphic designers I work with say there's no need to be sharpening these web-destined images--that "Photoshop handles jpegs better now and there's no point in sharpening at all." (This was in response to them providing images that are oversharpened and my asking them to adjust their settings.)
I'm only a "nonprofessional" photoshop user--but that just doesn't sound right to me (unless we don't want crisp images on our website).
Can anyone enlighten me if I am out of date and it's true no sharpening is needed?
Or if sharpening would be of value, provide a constructive response I could share with them and even an article I could direct them to with information/guidance on finding a good "bulk" way to do some sharpening (expecting the 3 sizes to be done by hand for the 50 or so product images a month isn't an option)?

It depends. I'd say 300 pixels is so small that sharpening may be counter-productive - the pixels may just get in the way.
Around 800-1000 pixels or up I always sharpen, and I have a couple of actions for it. Personally I don't like the "Bicubic Sharper (reduction)" algorithm, I think it overdoes it, and in the wrong way, giving just that oversharpened look. I prefer "Bicubic Smoother" and sharpen afterwards.
Confining sharpening to midtones, fading out high and low, always helps to reduce halos. There's a section of about 20 steps in my actions that does just that, trouble is I can't remember what they were...

How do I uninstall the Safari Beta version?

I'm using Firefox to post this since the beta version of Safari went belly up a couple of days ago. It's not loading many of my usual daily websites that I need access to.
When I tried to log in HERE I got this:
http://solisstyle.com/ims/pic.php?u=4562lQs3D&i=74179
I searched the Apple website for Safari Beta 3 (& all versions of that phrase) and came up with nada so I was hoping that someone here would have some info.
I want to get rid of the beta version and go back to the previous stable version.
Thanks in advance!
PS - What I'm looking for is the Safari beta file to download. I made the mistake of deleting the beta package that contained the uninstaller since it WAS working so well.
Live & learn.

The uninstaller with beta 3.0 will not uninstall the program because I don't have a restorable version of Safari. ????? is this a weird catch 22? Of course I don't have it, it un-installed 2.1 when it installed the beta. Now Adobe won't install because of safari and safari won't uninstall because of safari and I cannot find a copy of safari 2 (only updates that need safari2) I'm going in and killing anything to do with safari.. this doesn't make me happy. I'm officially waiting on OSX 10.5 for a while.

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.

H U G E Safari latency now since updating to Mac OS X 10.5.3

I thought I was going insane until I read that I'm not alone.
I am having HUGE Safari issues since 10.5.3. I wouldn't say that the speed of my internet connection is slow (it's still 15+ Meg), but the Safari browser now has a ton of latency. It waits a lot while starting, bringing up pages, etc.
Any way to restore to 10.5.2... like I could so on XP?
Any thoughts on a fix?
Dave
(posted from XP cuz my mac is hosed at the moment)

Hi
Welcome to Apple Discussions
If Safari is slow to startup, reset Safari via the Safari Menu. Include the following in the reset: History, Cache, Cookies and WebSite Icons.
Slowness in page rendering usually can be remedied by adding DNS server codes in System Preferences>Network panel. Go to that panel, click on your Internet connection, then select "advanced". In the DNS panel, enter 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2, select OK, then "apply".
Restart Safari.

Accidently deleted Safari and now can't reinstall

My brother was messing with my macbookpro while i was outside and he some how deleted my Safari. Now when i try to reinstall it it says it can't because there is an updated version already. Anyway to fix this?
My mac is a version 10.7.4.
Please help I don't like using any other web browser :/

Apple wanted to charge me 50 bucks jsut to talk to someone!
I believe you may be referring to the $49 ASL agreement at AppleCare? That is only when/if you are out of AppleCare Protection.
Can you get to an AppleStore Genius Bar?
They may be able to fix this for you. No charge.
I highly doubt that. There is a $70 charge for troubleshooing software issues, EVEN IF there is AppleCare Warranty on the hardware.
However, since there is no charge for an appointment at a Bar, go make one, and see what options they give you. Let us know how it goes.

Videos won't play in Safari. Notice says, "You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video." I have downloaded it, but no change. All videos play OK in firefox, but I like the controls in Safari better and want to stay with it.

Videos won't play in Safari. Notice says, "You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video." I have downloaded it, but no change. All videos play OK in Firefox, but I like the controls in Safari better and want to stay with it.

Try deleting Flash cookies.
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If that doesn't help, UNinstall the old Flash plugin first, then reinstall new.
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Then restart your Mac.

Had to reload windows, now itunes thinks I have a new laptop.

Had to reload windows, now itunes thinks I have a new laptop.
I cannot now delete or load songs onto iphone unless I wipe them all and start again. Is there anything I can do to get round this problem?
Strange how I do not have this problem with my ipod nano!!
Many thanks all.

+Strange how I do not have this problem with my ipod nano!!+
What folders did you back up and then restore after reinstalling Windows? The nano does not use a few folders that iPhones/iTouch/iPads use. But they both use the same library database file, iTunes Library.itl. That is the main file that tells itunes if a device has been synced to it.

I errase safari icon, now can't acces internet at all, please help

I errase safari icon, now can't acces internet at all, please help

Which OS X is installed on your Mac ?
Click the Apple () menu top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click About This Mac. The version is noted there.
Troubleshooting advice can depend on that information.

Can't install the new Safari beta

I've got a problem installing Safari beta 3.
I am always told "You cannot install Safari Beta 3 on this volume. This volume does not meet the requirements for this update."
Any ideas what is going on? I have plenty of space. That isn't the problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!

Hi
Welcome to Apple Discussions
Safari must reside in the top level of the Applications folder for the installer to work. If you put Safari in a sub-folder, or moved to a different location, then return it to the correct location, then try the Installer.
If at any point you choose to revert to Safari 2.0.4, you must use the Uninstaller that is found in the Installation package. Any other method will create havoc in the operating system.
With either the Install or Uninstaller, do not use the computer while it is running. You'll be instructed to restart the computer once it completes.

Loved Safari 4 Beta....now I think i am going back to Firefox.

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