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**Roxy** · March 27th, 2008, 5:34 PM

I think I could get to about 5 or 6 tabs open in one window before it crashed. Maybe a memory issue in makes? I dunno...hmm...

**Brandonnn** · March 27th, 2008, 5:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Roxy

I think I could get to about 5 or 6 tabs open in one window before it crashed. Maybe a memory issue in makes? I dunno...hmm...

On a PC:

Interesting... i usually have at least 10 or so tabs open all the time with no performance issues... and gradually I go up to about 40 tabs when I'm researching different things on google.

On a MAC:

Same thing ... except it crashes more often when I'm streaming music but that's all.

**Roxy** · March 27th, 2008, 5:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Brandonnn

On a PC:

Interesting... i usually have at least 10 or so tabs open all the time with no performance issues... and gradually I go up to about 40 tabs when I'm researching different things on google.

On a MAC:

Same thing ... except it crashes more often when I'm streaming music but that's all.

On my Mac I meant that I can get 5 or 6 tabs open in Safari. On my PC, its OK, it just lags a lot and the quality is low.

But wow 40 tabs at one time?! I think the most I've done is probably 15 >_<

**twirp** · March 27th, 2008, 6:11 PM

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Originally Posted by H

Strange... I recently started using Safari full-time and found its stability to be awesome (on Mac). If anything crashes on Mac, it's Firefox... which will crash for no reason generally.

Firefox and Opera crash on my mac for no apparent reason... Safari seems more stable, but I can't live without a newtab button :'(
Firefox also has an issue with flash and java on my machine >.< And it keeps coming to a halt when it loads certain pages.

H · March 27th, 2008, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Roxy

On my Mac I meant that I can get 5 or 6 tabs open in Safari. On my PC, its OK, it just lags a lot and the quality is low.

But wow 40 tabs at one time?! I think the most I've done is probably 15 >_<

Heh.. 15 is nothing. On a busy RSS/research day, I can easily hit the 40 mark. I probably have on average 6-8 tabs open at any given time at home with the latest webkit build (which should theoretically be less stable than Safari 3.1).

**Roxy** · March 28th, 2008, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by twirp

Firefox and Opera crash on my mac for no apparent reason... Safari seems more stable, but I can't live without a newtab button :'(
Firefox also has an issue with flash and java on my machine >.< And it keeps coming to a halt when it loads certain pages.

Well from the sounds of it, it could be just a Mac thing with the browsers. Wonder why? Anywho, good thing I don't use my Mac for anything major, or I'd be angry with my browsers freezing up every hour. -__-

H · March 28th, 2008, 11:03 AM

I can't believe that it happens every hour... I run nightly builds of Webkit (Safari) for sometimes 7 days before I close it. Opera 9.5 weeklies have sucked lately, but even they stick around for a few days. And Firefox doesn't actually crash for me often, but I close it every day or two in order to stop memory leaks.

If you're crashing it more than once a day, it's probably something you're doing or bad memory.

**Roxy** · March 28th, 2008, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by H

I can't believe that it happens every hour... I run nightly builds of Webkit (Safari) for sometimes 7 days before I close it. Opera 9.5 weeklies have sucked lately, but even they stick around for a few days. And Firefox doesn't actually crash for me often, but I close it every day or two in order to stop memory leaks.

If you're crashing it more than once a day, it's probably something you're doing or bad memory.

Yes, I exaggerated on the "every hour" part. It doesn't crash everyday, only sometimes when I have more then 2 windows open and like 5-6 tabs at the same time. I'd have to test it out more to see if the problem is consistent, but I usually stay within one window with maybe 2-3 tabs open at a time when I use my Mac. It runs smooth then, of course, but then again, like I said, I don't use my Mac for anything major and when I'm on the internet on it, its for checking my email or a page that most likely has more text then images, which doesn't eat much.

**Ancyru** · March 28th, 2008, 7:34 PM

I remember Kayla talking about her Safari issues (even though she loved the dock icon) but we couldn't work out why it kept crashing.

Personally, Safari doesn't go ballistics on me & I usually have about 5 windows open with a several tabs open in them too.

I'd like to say IE7 has come along way from IE6 in that it's not so bad anymore.

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H after g, before i Resident. Joined in Jul 2004 Lives in N,BC,CA 8,033 posts Gave thanks: 48 Thanked 129 times	I can't believe that it happens every hour... I run nightly builds of Webkit (Safari) for sometimes 7 days before I close it. Opera 9.5 weeklies have sucked lately, but even they stick around for a few days. And Firefox doesn't actually crash for me often, but I close it every day or two in order to stop memory leaks. If you're crashing it more than once a day, it's probably something you're doing or bad memory.

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