[DewD]

I just downloaded the updated version of PithHelmet , v 2.8.4 , released Nov 26. It appears to resolve the issue of Safari 3.2/ 3.2.1 crashing right and left. Read on....

But here's the revelation: the release notes for Pith Helmet 2.8.4 say it is written for Leopard 10.5 , but I am running Tiger and installed it on my PowerPC eMac machine. And it works . Been running Safari for over an hour without a single glitch , and I even tested it on sites I know are Javascript intensive and us lots of Flash and everything else I could think of , including download and video sites. Still no glitches.

I hope this holds up. Safari 3.2.1 is definitely WAY faster than Firefox 3.0.4 on this old G4 Tiger machine now, and starts up quicker . That has not been the case before now.

[pendragon]

Glad to hear that PH works on a Tiger/PPC. Well, at least in some cases.

Thanks for posting and please let us know if you experience any changes.

[David Lee]

An extension to the crashing with Safari 3.2.x: Have you tried using the following terminal command?
sudo update_prebinding -force -root /
The resulting error message, something like "too many errors" may or not be involved in the crashes. I am not an expert, but errors in the prebinding does sound serious to me. I have had 3 G4s running Tiger show this error after the update, but one of the machines also has leopard installed on another HD with no errors shown. I had no plugins installed at all in either Library/Input Managers folder and Safari was relatively stable even under those prebinding error conditions. Not sure of what to make of this, is it something to be concerned about or not?

[Catfish_Man]

Leopard doesn't use prebinding, so it's not surprising it wouldn't be complaining about it. In general, prebinding failures will only slow down your launch times slightly.