Mac and Tescos

tightarsey

Help required: Please post whether Tesco Direct Crashes Safari 5.0 Browser on your PC, Apple Mac and even ipad!

Go to the Tesco.com Website, click on Tesco Direct, attempt to add something to your basket, using Safari Web Browser.

Platform: Windows
Variation: Windows XP SP3 (fully upto date)
Adobe Flash: 10.2.153.1
Javascript: Enabled
Cache Cleared.
Safari Browser: 5.04 (7533.20.27)

Have tested with Safari 5.04 (7533.20.27) running on Windows XP SP3 (updates fully upto date) and can confim Tesco Direct crashes Browser.

Windows Crash Info:
AppName: safari.exe AppVer: 5.33.20.27 ModName: msvcr80.dll
ModVer: 8.0.50727.4053 Offset: 000172d7

mrochester

As an interesting side note, the Tesco website also crashes the Safari browser on both the iPhone and iPad too. Seems that there is something inherently wrong with one, the other, or both.

DatabaseError

i know it's not the ideal solution, but there are other browsers. I use firefox and chrome on my PC, opera on my phone...

POPPYOSCAR

I order from Tesco a lot and use Safari, never had this problem, so I don't understand why some people do, yet I don't.

tightarsey

DatabaseError wrote: »

i know it's not the ideal solution, but there are other browsers. I use firefox and chrome on my PC, opera on my phone...

No, for a company the size of Tesco, that now sell the Ipad2 it certainly isn't. Safari is a browser based on Webkit - an open source browser engine used as the basis for Safari and Chrome, - which together have over 20% of the overall browser market.

Seems a bit of a PR Nightmare to be selling thousands of Ipad2s to Tesco's customers, only to find your actually cutting them off from purchasing anything from you in doing so.

Personally I'm getting fed up of forgetting, and having 10-20 Windows open, which are wiped once I head to the Tesco Website. Its about time they came up with a solution. Crashing browsers is an unacceptable behaviour for a major Website such as Tesco.

23n1th

tightarsey wrote: »

No, for a company the size of Tesco, that now sell the Ipad2 it certainly isn't. Safari is a browser based on Webkit - an open source browser engine used as the basis for Safari and Chrome, - which together have over 20% of the overall browser market.

Seems a bit of a PR Nightmare to be selling thousands of Ipad2s to Tesco's customers, only to find your actually cutting them off from purchasing anything from you in doing so.

Personally I'm getting fed up of forgetting, and having 10-20 Windows open, which are wiped once I head to the Tesco Website. Its about time they came up with a solution. Crashing browsers is an unacceptable behaviour for a major Website such as Tesco.

I would imagine that tescos won't worry too much seeing as the fault seems to lie at safaris feet. Every other browser seems to work including chrome and qtweb both of which use webkit. Maybe people should contact Apple to sort it, and they can make the 5% of people in the world using safari happy.