Comments on: Safari 4 beta and GrowlMail

By: jc

jc — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:17:26 +0000

It’s been a month, and the fixes you made work well. Please make a new release soon. I’m currently using Stephan’s release.

Make sure to tell people to switch their summary mode back to 1. The summary mode 2 is total crap

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:25:34 +0000

Huh! This looked like one of those problems that never get fixed. You know, the ones in the forum dated 2004 without any reply. Very useful AND fixed! Rare! Kudos!

By: Mac User

Mac User — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:20:01 +0000

YAY!
Thank you very much

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:12:23 +0000

Seems like Apple’s own Mail has the problem itself as well (saving an email doesn’t work)…see http://openradar.appspot.com/6654010 .

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:50:58 +0000

Oh, and thanks to Peter too, of course!

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:49:52 +0000

Thanks Stephan! You made my morning.

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:40:25 +0000

Disclaimer (this should be obvious but I should point it out anyway just in case): Anything not part of a Growl release is not supported by the Growl team. We won’t provide support for Stephan’s build.

By: Stephan

Stephan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:36:31 +0000

I’ve downloaded the current source and compiled the GrowlMail, it works fine for me. If you like grab it at:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/112247/GrowlMail.mailbundle.zip

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:05:02 +0000

I agree with Paul. Thanks Scott!

By: Paul M

Paul M — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:37:00 +0000

I think you guys could teach a course on how software developers should communicate with the users of their products. We can all rest easy and patiently wait for the 1.1.5 update. Thanks for this.

By: Mark Rowe

Mark Rowe — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:12:08 +0000

Scott, it has *never* been safe to call the WebKit API from a secondary thread. In the past it may have appeared to work, but in reality it was just causing very subtle, hard-to-debug problems. In order to avoid these subtle problems, WebKit now complains noisily if it is accessed from a secondary thread. This has an unfortunate side-effect of causing some short-term pain, but application developers will hopefully fix their applications to use WebKit in a safe manner before Safari 4 is released.

If you know of applications that are affected by this, it wouldn\’t hurt to file bug reports at http://bugreport.apple.com/ so that Apple is aware of which applications are impacted and can evaluate whether application-specific workarounds can be added.

By: Scott Guelich

Scott Guelich — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:22:33 +0000

Thanks for the quick diagnosis and update, since this same issue appears to have bit other apps I use (like Plex). Do you happen to have a reference to the specific WebKit change that resulted in this? Was this discussed or documented by the WebKit team anywhere?

By: Seamus D

Seamus D — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:27:58 +0000

You guys rock. Totally quick response to the issue. Love Growlmail and Safari4, so can’t wait …

By: David Toub

David Toub — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:59:02 +0000

Thanks for the update. I’m going to wait for a fix before installing Safari 4 because GrowlMail has become indispensable for me.