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The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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446 points talboren | 4 comments | 27 Aug 25 09:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.62s | source
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muglug ◴[27 Aug 25 13:03 UTC] No.45039093[source]▶
Improvements merged within the last two days by the WebKit team: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/170922#discuss...

For my sins I occasionally create large PRs (> 1,000 files) in GitHub, and teammates (who mostly all use Chrome) will sometimes say "I'll approve once it loads for me..."

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1. celsoazevedo ◴[27 Aug 25 13:41 UTC] No.45039546[source]▶
How long until those improvements reach users? I assume it requires an OS update or does Safari use something similar to Firefox and Chrome for faster updates?
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2. rootnod3 ◴[27 Aug 25 13:47 UTC] No.45039624[source]▶
There is a developer version you can install. There is beta, but that overrides your existing Safari and rollback might be tricky sometimes.

But there is also the Safari Technology Preview, which installs as a separate app, but is also a bit more unstable. Similar to Chrome Canary.

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3. philistine ◴[27 Aug 25 14:26 UTC] No.45040189[source]▶
STP is a great thing if you wished you had two different Safaris. Profiles just don't work as well as a completely different app.
4. dylan604 ◴[27 Aug 25 15:09 UTC] No.45040801[source]▶
I had to download STP for a specific case I don't even remember. Ever since, I get frequent OS Update notifications with new STP versions. Updates without a fully system which means no rebooting necessary. About as easy any other software typically does it, only this is using the OS' upgrade so it does make it those extra steps instead of clicking the update->relaunch button