Safari Compatibility

One of the things that I am having to adjust while adopting the Mac OS X as my primary computer is that fact that most applications, tools, and even web sites are not designed for Mac OS X or a with Apple's Safari Browser in mind.

Safari has proven to be one of the weakest browser that I have used.  My problems with Safari can be summarize into 3 categories:

1. Compatibility
   
   Google Maps when it first shipped did not support Safari (it does now). 
   
   Typepad, the #1 blog tool service, while it supports Safari for creating blogs, all of their rich formatting tools (rich text, WYSIWYG, linking) do not work on Safari.  You must use either Internet Explorer or Firefox.
2. Popup Ads
   
   Safari does a really poor job blocking pop-up ads.  I hardly ever see a popup ad on my windows machine anymore (popups went away almost entirely ever since I installed Windows XP SP2).
   
3. Frequent Crashes
   
   A final irritation is how often Safari crashes.  Most amazingly to me is that Safari crashes the most while visiting Apple's own .Mac web site (for which I pay $150/year for the privilege of a email address and 1GB of online storage, and other cool features).  One would think that at least Apple would spend time ensuring that their .MAC services were compatible with their own browser.

The solution is to use Firefox as my browser.  But if I do that, I also loose one of the "Killer Features" that I have encountered so far: iSync bookmark synchronization.  More on this later.

Comments

[Kevin]

what version of safari, and what websites get past the popup blocker?

-kevin

[Matt]

If Safari is crashing for you, you should write up bugs at bugreport.apple.com with the relevant info, especially the crash logs.

[Cris]

Safari 2.0 (412.2). And I did report the bugs via the automated bug reporting procedure.

[Cris]

Version 2.0 (412.2)

One site that gives popup is http://www.macosrumors.com/

There are other as well, I will place them here as I find them again