Comments on: Safari 4′s Messy Trail

By: Morgan Roderick

Morgan Roderick — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:37:24 +0000

Hopefully Apple will one day see that the Top Sites feature has some serious flaws, even for users that actually like that feature.

By: Tea Bore

Tea Bore — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:18:42 +0000

On Leo using Safari 4.0.3 the Reset option DOES NOT clear the History folder. I had to delete it manually. I had 30 thousand files in it. I also got rid of the web page previews since I don’t use top sites. Here’s how : http://roderick.dk/blog/2009/08/03/disable-webpage-preview-images-in-safari-4-final/

By: Juste

Juste — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:12:51 +0000

Of course as long as Safari4 keeps creating previews for any website is visited, some folder in the system is doomed to be stffed up with gigs of files.

The questions now are:

1) If this temp folder has been moved, where is located now?

2) Are those temp preview files not cleaned-up with a common “clear cache” operation? I would like to know about the XML top sites file as well.

3) Is it possible to simple disable both site preview and top site logging anyway?

Thanks in advance for any answer to come.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:38:07 +0000

Apple Safari takes more resources compared to Opera and Firefox. sometimes it also freezes so i would still stick to Opera.

By: Lily

Lily — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:31:55 +0000

I just deleted 15GB (yes that’s with a “G”) worth of Safari history item. I only had Safari 4 for a few days. I suspected it was the culprit because I literally watched the disk space go to zero as I have no other app but Safari running. Thanks so much for the post! (I’m now typing this in Firefox)