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Post by wierdostomps on Mar 8, 2010 17:11:42 GMT
Is it just me, or has Safari been doing some weird (spelled correctly) things recently.
1. Last week, I noticed that the SnapBack feature was broken. I did a bit of Googling and found a workround involving going to Google.com and it seems OK now.
2. However, when I tried to listen to Stuart Maconie's Freakzone yesterday, I noticed that the iPlayer was broken. The workaround here was to change the user agent to fool the iPlayer into thinking I was using Firefox (other versions of Safari didn't work)
3. Today, I see that this forum is plastered with adverts again. So, presumably, Safari Adblock is broken, even though I have 32-bit addressing turned on and it was working up until recently.
Is it just coincidence, or has Safari been updated without a version change? Or has it been this buggy since November and I've been too busy to notice?
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Post by idan on Mar 8, 2010 17:24:50 GMT
I don't ever use Safari but it was buggy the last time I loaded it up.
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Post by Alex on Mar 8, 2010 17:59:09 GMT
I have noticed recently that by using the built-in Google search in the top right will now search Google UK instead of .com. This has only happened recently as I can remember searching for a way to make it search UK Google by default, which there isn't unless you fidget with dangerous codes and the like. The UK search is really helpful to me.
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Post by beerbum on Mar 8, 2010 18:38:30 GMT
I have noticed recently that by using the built-in Google search in the top right will now search Google UK instead of .com. This has only happened recently as I can remember searching for a way to make it search UK Google by default, which there isn't unless you fidget with dangerous codes and the like. The UK search is really helpful to me. So it does! Well spotted! I've been wanting it to do that for ages
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Post by Alex on Mar 8, 2010 18:47:23 GMT
I reckon there's been a sneaky little update somewhere... Anyone feel like some sleuthing?
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Post by idan on Mar 9, 2010 7:44:46 GMT
And soon you'll have the benefit of using Bing UK too
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Post by Alex on Mar 9, 2010 16:04:07 GMT
I hate Bing.
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Post by wierdostomps on Mar 9, 2010 17:55:48 GMT
If you allow the search field to use Google.co.uk, then the Snapback feature doesn't work. If you want snapback to work, you have to go to the Google search page and click on <Go to Google.com> at the bottom. Then snapback starts working again. Until you log out.
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Post by Alex on Mar 9, 2010 18:02:30 GMT
I never used Snapback anyway.
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Post by Forum Cat on Mar 9, 2010 18:07:19 GMT
I tried it as my default search engine for a month or so. The video search is pretty brilliant, however it was not as intelligent as Google and unless my spelling was spot on it often would not guess what I was really after. In the end I moved back to Google. Bing was not bad, just not (yet) good enough.
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Post by idan on Mar 9, 2010 21:20:11 GMT
Bing might be coming to Apple sooner than you think...
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Post by wierdostomps on Mar 12, 2010 15:38:59 GMT
Well, there's an official update out today. Downloading now. Let's see if it improves things.
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