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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."

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  1. Stop the presses!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    We just discovered that a discussion board about a beta software program includes complaints about bugs! Shut down the press, we need to get this hot news item into today's edition. Nothing like this has ever happened before!!!!

    1. Re:Stop the presses!!! by Zelet · · Score: 4, Funny

      I downloaded Safari and it was like beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep. It was a really good slashdot post, too.

      Relax I am an Apple user.

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    2. Re:Stop the presses!!! by MacAndrew · · Score: 3, Funny

      Do you look like Ellen Feiss?

      If yes, this may not be a safe place for you.... :)

  2. Re:What do you expect. . . . by baryon351 · · Score: 4, Funny

    And ellen said it was a really good paper.

    but the paper was devoured.

    "It was a really good /tmp... and Safari devoured my /tmp, and I had to link it again but it wasn't as good..."

  3. whew! by Slur · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thank goodness, according to the latest reports it only affects Microsoft astroturfers.

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