[muglo] WARNING new Apple Browser, Safari

Be _very_ careful when using the Safari January 2 build. There have been
many reports of the first version (about which you were all talking) wiping
out people's home directory, simply by option-clicking to download files!

Apple posted a January 10-dated beta on their web site but they didn't
mention whether they fixed any of the problems.

So, right now the old adage "back-up your hard drive before using beta
software" seems more relevant than ever!

That said, it's _amazingly_ fast. The GUI sucks but then again, what do you
expect from the company that gave us the hideous, greyish-brown (I would
like Apple to use a much lighter shade of brush-metallic [when is Apple
going to reintroduce an Appearance option in OS X... I can rarely stand
Apple's default GUI choices (too dark)]) iTunes and QuickTime Player GUIs!

L8r, Eric.

> From: Laurence Middleton [mailto:lmiddleton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 1:42 PM
> To: Leslie Horan; Catherine Baird; Ian Matheson
> Cc: Kevin Goodridge; Gordon Lemon; Isabelle Patenaude; James Woollatt
> Subject: Mac users: don't use Safari browser yet
> 
> Safari is Apple's new, super-cool OS X-only web browser, currently available
> as a public beta [ www.apple.com ]. I just saw a blurb [
> http://apple.slashdot.org/ ] in which serious problems are mentioned.
> 
> So you might want to wait for the full release. (It's supposed to be much
> faster than IE / Netscape, standards-compliant - very nice. Still, I wonder
> why Apple thinks the world needs another web browser?)
> 
> Info:
> "There have been many problems reported with Safari on Apple's discussion
> boards. The two most prominent are that option-clicking on a link to
> download can replace your Home folder with the downloaded file, effectively
> nuking your Home folder. The other has been reported as a printing problem,
> but is far worse. The printing problem occurs because Safari deletes /tmp,
> which is a link to /private/tmp."
> 
> Links:
> option-clicking: <http://www.macwrite.com/harrisonfiles/safari-warning.php>
> 
> nuke Home folder:
> <http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@.3bbdb9d6/0>
> 
> printing problem: <http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?14@@.3bbdb8d8/21>
> 
> Safari deletes /tmp:
> <http://macbuyersguide.com/news/talkback/1042110441,991,.shtml>



on 10/1/03 19:41, Joe McGuire at theguy@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Well, the contract Apple signed with MS to include Internet Exploder in
> Mac OS has expired. It intrigues me that Apple went with the Konqerer
> HTML rendering engine and not a perhaps more finished Gecko engine, but
> between that and their announcement of a fully optimized X windows
> implementation for OS X, it leads me to think that perhaps they will
> throw their weight behind OpenOffice or KOffice, both of which are very
> good open source office platforms. Is it smart to anger MS? Only time
> will tell, but it should make for an interesting show.
> 
> I am pleased with the search back arrow thingie in the google search
> thing, and now that I can kill that blasted brushed metal UI, Safari is
> looking very good. It's not quite up to snuff yet, but it will get there
> fast.
> 
> Joe McGuire aka tinfoil
> digital media rights and music news
> http://music.tinfoil.net


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