Board Thread:RangerWiki Official News/@comment-1398253-20140104203244

CzechOut wrote:

I'm issuing a pre-emptive warning to Mac users that they not upgrade to Mavericks 10.9.1 and Safari 7.0.1 (which is a necessary part of that OS upgrade).

It appears to be causing some issues with Wikia, making it impossible to see histories on pages with very long revision histories, like Eleventh Doctor.

The matter has been referred to Wikia Staff, and I will keep fellow Mac users apprised as the situation becomes clearer.

Chrome, Opera and Firefox seem unaffected by this issue, so I've you've already gone for 10.9.1, you still have several viable options.

This error has been independently confirmed by Wikia staff and escalated up the repair chain. You are now strongly cautioned against upgrading to OSX 10.9.1 if you want to retain full operability of Safari while using Wikia.

Again, if you want to go to 10.9.1 for other reasons, feel free. Chrome, Firefox and Opera do not exhibit this problem in 10.9.1, so you have plenty of browsing alternatives.

It sucks, though, because Safari 7.0.0 was working so incredibly well with Wikia.

After some serious investigation today, it appears now that this problem is not about page size. I've tested several of our shortest pages, some of them that are exactly the same size to the byte and I'm getting different results. Some history pages display without hesitation, while others hang.

At this point, it's not clear what the issue is, but there is an error, and it can be reproduced consistently.

'''Safari 7.0.1 does not work well with Wikia. Resist the urge to upgrade for a little while, if you can.'''

And just to be clear, this is not a local issue. Safari 7.0.1 doesn't serve the history page of starwars:yoda, muppet:kermit or spock any better than it does Eleventh Doctor.

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