More on rolling back from Safari 3 Beta
For a few unfortunate folks (remember, everyone, 'beta' means 'may do you wrong') the Safari 3 Beta installation has gone seriously off the rails. Inability to run the browser, inability to run other Apple apps that depend on WebKit... here there be dragons. If you can't run the bundled uninstaller mentioned earlier, you might take some comfort from this thread at Apple Discussions which indicates that the original WebKit and JavaScript frameworks, along with the Safari 2 app, are stowed away in /Library/Application Support/Apple/.SafariBetaArchive.tar.gz (the leading . means the file won't show up by default in the Finder, but you can get at it from Terminal). Check out the posts for suggestions on how to roll back gracefully.Thanks Scottie & others who sent this in
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For a few unfortunate folks (remember, everyone, 'beta' means 'may do you wrong') the Safari 3 Beta installation has gone seriously off the...
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I'm too having problems with Quicktime Pro & Safari Beta 3. I subscribe to bestadsontv & all that played was the audio. I downloaded a bunch of plugins that solved the problem to begin with but it is still a crap shoot with the clips playing about 40%. I don't have any problems with Flock or Firefox so I guess a change is due.
July 27 2007 at 1:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCan anyone please give me the steps to uninstall safari 3 and get back the old version?
July 24 2007 at 2:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOn the phone with Apple support for three days, turned out the iChat video was being prevented from working due to Safari beta. Good news what that the problem was isolated. Bad news, even uninstall would not remove problem. Must to erase and reinstall...GRR...
July 06 2007 at 3:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHello-
First, I use the Safari in my mac at work for eight years which I love it. Then I heard that rumors said that Windows Vista can run with Safari. I have the Windows Vista in my PC at home. I read the magazine and found it, then I searched on the internet and found the Safari Beta. I installed it in my PC and it look great! Only one problem is, I tried to download the pdf file, but it don't work. Is something wrong or do I need to install something for support the pdf file?
Let me know and thank for help.
Richard
Safari 3 did cause me problems.
I solved the problem by downloading Adobe Reader 8.1.
Adobe Reader 8.1 opened up PDF (files).
Possibly other upgrades may be necessary.
I have Safari 3 installed on my iMac and so far no problems at all. :-)
June 13 2007 at 7:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"After watching this debacle develop all day"
At the time of your post you were the ---8th person--- to post on this site. Wow, a debacle and only 7 people posted here before you. Talk about over hyping something.
As for me. Four Macs running Mac OS X 10.4.9 had ZERO problems installing Safari 3.0 beta. Note that I had Pithhelmet running on all of them.
I also installed it on Windows XP running in Parallels and also XP on the Gateway computer at work. ZERO problems with any of them (other than it won't run Pithhelmet so I'm seeing ads again).
Again. ZERO problems with all the installs on OS X and LoseDoze XP.
No problems whatsoever with Safari 3 Beta on my Mac from what I can tell so far. However, there are problems on my XP machine. Loads very quickly indeed, but crashing everytime when trying to add Bookmark.
June 12 2007 at 12:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHas anybody had embedded Quicktime issues with Safari 3 Beta? I checked it on a video tutorial on safari.oreilly.com and had to restore Safari 2x to get embedded QuickTime working. Some reports of various issues with Quicktime 7.1.6? How widespread is this?
I've had little problem with Safari 3 beta so far. I did, however, remove all but one of my Safari extensions (Inquisitor being the lone holdout) before doing the 3 beta test.
So far, I find it faster and that it seems to handle a few things better than 2 did. It's not quite ready for prime-time (since the various extensions and so on that people use in daily life aren't read for 3, and there's still more than a few bugs), but given what it does when it works, I think it's a promising step forward.
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