safari 4 and…
I preferred when Safari was chewing up tons of memory. At least then it didn’t crash every 10 minutes on random web sites.
Sure, the usual culprit is most of time the flash plugin. Ok, that’s an external thing, that could be an excuse. But my guess is more on the thread management (which was already the subject of my previous post). Sometimes it would freeze loading a page when moving the mouse around. (I would bet on some kind of race condition between the cookies handling and the javascript interpreter).
If somebody wanted to bad mouth apple, one could say that they send out buggy software, crashing, being slow as molasses (I’m looking at you, iTunes), but mostly on older operating system releases, to push people to the upgrade way.
Bleh!