Category: Safari

Fonts not rendering in safari?: Apple Support Communities

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The user figured out his own issue. Good work.

Apparently Lion’s version of Safari doesn’t approve of the use of the fonts in my boot camp partition, and Consolas was the offending font.

Curiously, when consolas is enabled in Lion, Safari doesn’t render _any_ monospaced fonts, even if the monospaced font selected in Preferences is Menlo or Monaco.

I’ve seen similar issues visiting microsoft sites – here, disabling all of the microsoft fonts on my boot camp partition was necessary.

I really like consolas; I would have already done it if I knew it wouldn’t break on Lion – maybe the commercial version works where the one Microsoft distributes doesn’t; but as it’s a gamble at this point, I guess I’ll have to use something else…

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Safari keeps crashing on start-up….: Apple Support Communities

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Seems that Bob Lang1 has the solution. Great job! Generally using Chrome or Firefox is safer since Safari doesn’t validate its certificates. This can allow people to masquerade as someone else.

I suggest you clear out all cache files.  You can do this manually, or you can use a tool like Onyx.  Since you\’ve been able to post I assume you have a working alternative browser you can use to perform the download. Bob

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Safari browser at risk for Certificate deception

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This is a concerning and surprising thing that Apple would do. I can understand they want the best performance but that risk is too big to take. I tried Firefox 4 yesterday and it was slow and buggy. So it seems Chrome would probably be the fastest and safest browser for the Mac at present. You can read more at this article including a link to a fix:

Digital certificate theft shines spotlight on Safari limitation

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“You are not connected to the internet” message

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Carolyn said:

If you didn’t repair permissions after installing the update, do that now.

Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it’s finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of “messages” in the permissions window, it’s ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, “Permissions Repair Complete” when it’s finished… you’re done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.

 

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