Some days ago, we updated orbited to the last version (0.7.7) in the EchoWaves production server, and we found an issue with Safari, where the browser never finish to load a page. The XHR streaming transport used to not cause the never ending loading bar in safari. Apparently it does now.

The orbited team is going to change the default transport to “LongPoll” which doesn’t have this problem, but meanwhile you can use the following solution, which consist in detect the browser used and configure orbited to use “LongPoll” if the browser detected is Safari:

There is some javascript to detect the browser