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Backwards advice re: Safari at MacFixit
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Person Man
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Nov 25, 2008, 01:27 PM
 
Remember when MacFixit used to be a GOOD place to go for troubleshooting information:

Here is a clear example of how far they have fallen:

I went to today's page and found the following advice regarding Safari crashing after updating to 3.2.1:

Originally Posted by MacFixit
The first workaround you should try when encountering this issue is to turn off the "Warn when visiting fraudulent websites" option in Preferences.

Next, you might need to get rid of Input Managers.
Aargh! They're recommending that a beneficial feature (anti-phishing warnings) be turned off first, BEFORE recommending that haxies and addons be removed????

Shouldn't that be the other way around? I guarantee that it would have been if Ted Landau were still running the site day to day. But even Ted has defended the people who run the site these days, so I don't know...
     
64stang06
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Nov 25, 2008, 03:30 PM
 
Ugh. I'm glad I don't rely on them or send family members there for problems.
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