Camino 2.0 and Safari 4.02
Thinking that Apple would have the time and resources available to take of it by now. I checked the latest updates for fixing the double double search bar in the APple Support Forum.
The problem still exists. I don’t know why the decision is made this way. Consider; Apple has made the choice to allow the poor code to stay in an important and visible company frontispiece which is bad and allow it to stand which is also bad and not code their browser to ignore / fix poor coding which is good. Confusing choices. Compare the browser performance on said page in the WebKit and Gecko based browsers presented here. Safari 4.0.2, Camino. WebKit Version 4.0.2 (5530.19, r46919) is included to check latest revision under the WebKit code.
The Firefox and Camino browsers handle the excess bit of gif code more elegantly. The corners of the search bar image still show. These images are GIF’s.
Is this a completely different problem than what happens with animated gif’s? Does mishandling of gif’s explain the problem?
Here’s an example of a typical animated gif display corrupted by Safari and handled elegantly by Camino:

The WebKit slows ponderously, is easily overtaxed and crashed and will crash if the animation is left running. The Gecko engine handle the animation well.
I have no understanding of the underlying code but can see the difference between these products.
Thanks for the animated gif go out to MrYoda.

