Comments on: Make Safari Stop Crashing Every 20 Seconds on Windows Vista

By: MJ

MJ — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:00:19 +0000

I don’t know why safari 4 doesn’t work for Vista. You guys have to remember that it is still in beta mode and you can’t complain. You can still download Safari 3, the sexiest web browser in the world. Just google “Safari 3 Download” and make sure to uninstall safari before reinstalling it. I am not disappointed, as the interface on 3 is much better than 4 in my opinion.

By: misanthrope666

misanthrope666 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:53:43 +0000

safari 4 doesn’t seem to have a compatibility mode so this fix isn’t going to work for me
my problem with the browser isn’t really crashing but memory leakage issues that ramp my cpu usage up to 100% and lock my PC up this is extremely annoying and inconvenient to the point where i am about ready to switch browsers

other then having to restart my computer atleast once a day due to safaris problems i like the browser

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:28:02 +0000

Windows XP Compatibility mode didn’t quite work for me on Vista–but Windows 98 / Windows Me did! Thanks for the tip.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:29:04 +0000

My vista doesn’t have the compatibility tab! I need
help!

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:31:47 +0000

This is the same for me. Every time I click on Safari it just says Safari has stopped working. Does anyone know how to get it to stop doing this and load?

By: Ed Veaudry

Ed Veaudry — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:20:00 +0000

Cannot get safari to load on vista ultimate. I put into the compatibility mode and selected xp but it still will not load. It comes up with a window that says Safari Browser has stopped working and windows will notify me when there is a solution.

By: trend breakr

trend breakr — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:31:28 +0000

I haven’t had that many crashes with Safari 3 Beta on Vista. Don’t know what the problem is. Actually I can’t think of any problems I had with it.

@7egend,
Dual booting OSX and Vista? Nice! Is there any trick to it or does it just work?

By: 7egend

7egend — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:14:54 +0000

I currently run a Dual Boot OSX and Vista, and when Safari 3 Beta came out on Vista I was estatic to actually have my fav browser on a OS that i like very much.

I have expirenced no crashes, or strange fonts or any slowness in loading other than the first time it was launched. In my opinion Safari does blow Firefox and IE7 out of the water.

But that is just me. I tend to use Windows Vista more than OSX but I only really used OSX cause of the Safari browser it just seemed so sexy, and rendered websites faster and more accurately, but now that it is usable on Vista…wow…poor OSX might have to disappear on my Dual Boot.

J/K OSX is teh leet, there is always a place in my heart for it, especially Leopard..soon my love.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:13:39 +0000

To resolve the problem with the weird fonts, delete the Lucida Grande.ttf and Lucida Grande Bold.ttf files from the Safari resources directory in the installation folder.

It’s really extremely fast for me… but overall, I think Safari is a terrible browser.

By: factoid

factoid — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:56:24 +0000

“The new Safari for Windows is a very slick browser that beats the pants off everything else in the speed department,”

I have to disagree with this – not only is it a slow memory hog on Vista, they couldnt even get it to work in english: many parts (like the file, edit, etc menus and even parts of Apple webpages) are just random characters. Apple kinda dropped the ball on this one.