If Macs are so perfect why do they keep crashing and dying and need to be rebooted seeminly after every update? I’m just back from another reboot when Flock brought the system down. Yes, yes, must switch to another browser but after Mark’s ranting about the slowness and general bloatedness of OS X Firefox I’m wondering what I’ll use.
For all the fans of Microsoft Windows out there, here’s a sort of BSOD from the Mac. This happened at the last BarCamp in Waterford. I have witnesses!
In the interests of fairness, I should also say that Linux died horribly on me when Firefox, Flock, GIMP and Bibblepro were all loaded and swap went haywire. It was quicker to put it out of it’s misery and reboot than wait for the kernel to kill one of the above apps. But why spoil a good anti-Mac rant by injecting some perspective?
Try Camino, I find it a lot faster than Firefox.
You might have some dodgy RAM. I’ve had some good experiences with memtest for MacOS X. The developer is charging a $1.39 download fee as it became so popular it cost him a fortune in bandwidth fees.
Memtest86 is free if I recall.
Thanks, I might try Camino and I really hope I don’t have dodgy RAM. I blame Flock 🙂
If Flock is capable of tripping a kernel panic then you’re better off ditching it. I think Tom R had issues with it too if I recall.
Dodgy RAM is one to watch out for, but if you haven’t changed what came stock from Apple then you should have nothing to fear.
On a side note, I’ve never had any reason to move away from Safari (aside from the occasional TinyMCE necessities)
Hey Donncha,
Small consolation perhaps, but stability/speed is our big focus for Flock 0.8.x. If you do choose to switch now, be sure to give us a look then…hopefully we’ll be less inconvenient and more empowering.
Flock on,
Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com