Waylander Posted October 10, 2015 Report Share Posted October 10, 2015 read a few reports about it slowing things down esp Safari. anyone updated or should I hold off for a bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted October 10, 2015 Report Share Posted October 10, 2015 Did it on day 1 and not had a single issue.I don't use Safari. It is crap. Use Chrome or Firefox instead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torino101 Posted October 10, 2015 Report Share Posted October 10, 2015 My god, pleased someone said it as I didnt want to upset the appleists, but Safari is utterly dire. You should see how this forum looks on my iPad in Safari...... For some reason it likes to replace everyone's avatar with Tipex's. Not a nice sight! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted October 10, 2015 Report Share Posted October 10, 2015 I used Safari on all mine and don't have a problem with it. El Capitan has been very stable even as a beta for me, safari has been fast as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted October 10, 2015 Report Share Posted October 10, 2015 I only use Safari on my phone or iPad, wouldn't use it on a laptop/PC. I used to, but as above, even for a low level user like myself, Chrome is much better, never got on with Firefox for some reason. One thing I will say though, is that even still today, I have to revert back to i.e. or Edge or whatever they call it now, as some websites don't function correctly on anything else. As an example, I was trying to order the kids their 'free' Tip N Sip bowls from the Kelloggs website recently, I tried every browser without success, and had to use Edge in the end, which worked perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torino101 Posted October 10, 2015 Report Share Posted October 10, 2015 Yet this forum still doesn't work on Edge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted October 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2015 I have issues on this forum with the browser on my windows phone. I do find Safari dull and uninspiring but I suspect it's because I use it so little - simply to access the bookmarks I imported across from ie. I have mainly used Firefox on my pc as I set it up how I like it but kids prefer chrome and admittedly it is growing on me as Tipex says though every so often and universally for official stuff like companies house or dvla etc o have to jump back into IE( I note Tipex is using win10- with Edge) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted October 10, 2015 Report Share Posted October 10, 2015 (edited) Yet this forum still doesn't work on Edge. On mobile or PC? I have no issues with TSN using Edge on my Windows laptop, can't comment on mobile as I have not used a Windows mobile for many years. Edited October 10, 2015 by Tipex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 (edited) I'll upgrade around 10.11.3... Though Yosemite and El Capiran claim to run on systems with 4GB RAM, experience shows it to be true but painfully slow. Upgrade will probably be via a new Laptop, and maybe updating the newish rMBP13. Edited October 11, 2015 by Rachel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booster Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 I have Garcon's avatar at the bottom of every page of tsn if I use safari. It is deeply disturbing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 My god, pleased someone said it as I didnt want to upset the appleists, but Safari is utterly dire. You should see how this forum looks on my iPad in Safari...... For some reason it likes to replace everyone's avatar with Tipex's. Not a nice sight! I've never got on with Safari. It is much better now than in the past but it is still a long behind the others (barring the utter pile of crap that is Internet Explorer, naturally). I'm a big fan of Firefox because of the add-on library, of which I use a lot of them. I like Chrome but am loathed to use it because of Google's data mining. I do, but only if something doesn't render properly in Firefox or there is a specific add-on in Chrome that I can't use in Firefox. I'm not convinced you'll find too many "Appleists" on here either. My stance is clear and I think most TSN people do the same. They change if there is something better. I still struggle with the fact that a lot of people seem to think that if you own Apple devices it must be because you're trying to be flash or just image-driven. I find it rather like inverted snobbery (not a dig at you). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 I have Garcon's avatar at the bottom of every page of tsn if I use safari. It is deeply disturbing! Bwahahahaha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted October 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 I had an issue with work related portal on safari to installed Chrome - as I said earlier I find the lack of a sidebar or the way it seems to handle bookmarks (compared with the simple layout of IE or FF) an irritation. Sill persevere a little Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riz Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 I upgraded on day 1, no problems to report. Its installed on my mid-2010 MacBook Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 I've just installed The Captain. Took best part of a day to download. Feels the same as before! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riz Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 Yep, that's Apple for you.... drip feed and under-cover improvements Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 I've just installed The Captain. Took best part of a day to download. Feels the same as before! That is weird. I downloaded and upgraded in under 45 minutes. It does feel the same but if you look at the additional features they're there and useful. I agree with Riz too - the whole point of the updates is that you shouldn't feel as if it is a completely new environment. That's what they do so well. You'll come across the new features in time and when you do you'll realise how well deployed they are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riz Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 I was looking at Microsoft's new Surface Pro 4 / Surface Book but I don't think I could ever go back to Windows OS after using OSX, OSX just works without any problems for me. Roll on 2016 MacBook Pro, I hope its a all new design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 Side by side might be useful. I never use 75% of all the features anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted November 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2015 Does El Capitan now play nice with Office 2011/2016? Still not actually made the upgrade but I also have Office 2016 available so was planning to upgrade fro Office 2011? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted November 29, 2015 Report Share Posted November 29, 2015 Works fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted November 29, 2015 Report Share Posted November 29, 2015 Works fine. Aye, that it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted December 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 And I see that it does Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted December 15, 2015 Report Share Posted December 15, 2015 Well, given the space grey MacBook was a clean 10.11.2 install and was flawless**, tonight, one of the MacMinis, the 13" Air and the newer 13" retina MBP all got a jump from 10.9.5 to 10.11.2. The Air "bricked" with an obscure Finder crashing loop which are looking at all sorts of crazy UNIX command line "try this" stuff on the web, I went "F*k it, this is why I back them up as bootable clones" - grabbed a USB stick and copied the Finder.app of the working Mini, booted off the clone, deleted the Finder.app on the SSD and replaced it with the one from the stick - rebooted and all good! ** lots of new daemons wanting access that Little Snitch blocks or queries, so time was spent on each machine resetting the new rulesets, logging back into Google via the Internet accounts system preferences so Mail.app would work, and also BoxCryptor. Then did a full system disk permission clean via Onyx (as it is gone from Disk Utility in 10.11 - unless you like Terminal commands), then a full cruft clean up and cache purge, PRAM reset and it all "just works". :-) Got one more to do - but that can wait till maybe the weekend. All 3 updated machines now want to update all the iLife and iWork apps, as well as a new recovery partition and iTunes... Off-peak downloads here I come! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted December 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2015 But but but Macs NEVER go wrong so people keep telling me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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