Safari permanent page reload on Windows

[stOrM]

Hi,
well, for a few I started getting into webdev everything fine so far except I noticed a big problem which starts with Safari 5.1.2 (7534.52.7) on Windows.

I wanted to use google fonts to get some smooth fonts into my current layout but whenever I include the urls to the googlefont repo safari acts strange it starts to permanently reload the page, while in opera, firefox chrome and even ie9 everything is fine.

I wonder if this is a known bug and it would be even more interesting how can this be solved?

best regards

[stOrM]

Hi,
sue watch this in safari 5.1 and you got that problem while in all other browsers it will be fine…

http://jsfiddle.net/stcvS/

[stOrM]

Does really no one can help out for the above problem?
Embedding the fonts into css has no effect.

Even when I use Safari to browse css-tricks I do have the same problem, the page reloads endless…

[Billy]

Are you running LiveReload at all?
I don’t have any problems with Safari 5.1

[stOrM]

Thats kinda strange are you using it on windows or mac?
Nope don’t have livereload on windows :(

[Billy]

Mac for me. But I had that problem a while ago with all my browsers, and then I realised I’d done something with LiveReload, and left it on for all websites accidentally.

[stOrM]

So it seems its a Safari / Windows related problem for whatever reason.
Well I guess the only thing I could do to track that problem down if its only on my Windows machine or on every Windows machine using Safari.

What’s getting my attention was when I remove the link to google fonts from the webpage everything is fine so it must be a specific problem with this only … guessing!

But in the moment I found a way around this annoying bug:

@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
.adr {
font-family:Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
}

Immediatly all problems are gone page does not reload anymore strange but works…
So no custom fonts anymore but at least site works :)

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