I've found Safari to be unusable for a year or two now on my 09 iMac. Lots of random freezing and overall poor performance.
Chrome is just too much better to even bother with Safari.
Chrome is just too much better to even bother with Safari.
The Flash/Shockwave that they bundle in consistently pegged my CPU after a few minutes of use. The whole desktop would get laggy and sluggish, to the point that I could barely operate the Finder enough to do a Force Quit. After a year of trying all kinds of things to fix/mitigate it, I just gave up and went back to Safari. Weird, since I rarely hear complaints from others about Chrome, but for me it was unusable. Even tried a fresh OS install to no effect.