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Major Problems With Safari

Posted by pudge on from the aieeeeee dept.

kuwan writes "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."

3 of 199 comments (clear)

  1. Stick to Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    enough said.

  2. Re:What do you expect. . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Gee, my BETA versions of WMP9 and windows movie maker 2 worked flawlessly. Never even crashed let alone DESTROY MY OS INSTALL!

    This is plain CARELESS of apple to release such a destructive "beta" on it's widespread users.

  3. First of All by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    First of all is a beta. Get that? Know what a "beta" is?

    Since few do try looking it up at dictionary.com.

    The reported problems are not common. They appear to relate to unique configs and are *limited* in the number of users that are affected. There are other reports as well.

    For /. Apple to post this miserable item only typlifies why reading /. is a waste of time, a babble of morons.