I'm on my first mac, bought last week. I'm using the new Safari 4 browser and its slow. Anyone else notice this? I'm an old firefox user but dont want to go back because I like the mouse pad gestures in safari.
View 7 RepliesMy safari browser is slow (MacBook Pro 10.6.8). I often have to shut down my computer because it freezes with the spinning color wheel. Sometimes the browser will not be slow when I switch to the chrome browser, but sometimes it is. I may have a logic board problem so I am wondering if that could have anything to do with my slow browser. When I click on Software Update, it shows no software updates (for safari). What could be causing this?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
for no foreseeable reason my white macbook has suddenly slowed in speed when browsing pages, they load justa s fast it just takes ages form typing a URL to start loading, my other desktop is fine and the line is 100MB download steady so its not web speed.
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what would be slowing my browser down? Funny thing is the only site that loads as it should is a google search through the toolbar of firefox. Any other bookmarked site takes 3-5 seconds at the very least...sometimes up to 10-15+ seconds.
everything has been fine other than Activity monitor opening but just hanging, spinning pinwheel. There doesnt seem to be a file in library/preferences "com.apple.activitymonitor.plist" which I read could be the culprit. The main problem is that browsing and DL's have slowed to a crawl under 1mps down according to speedtest,where my phone using the same wifi access point is getting at least 5. This is for Firefox as well as Safari. Im sort of at my wits end here and willing to just wipe and start over but i dont have the disks. This seems like the sort of behaviour that occured on my PC when i got a Trojan or loaded up with Spyware. I did do an Avast and Clamxav scans to be sure. Im sure Ill find more to annoy you fine people with in the future but for now it would take far to long for the web page to open.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Slow browser speed on all browsers, but the downloading and uploading speed are normal according to speedtest.net. Ping is a bit high. Other computers in the house are fine.Already contacted ISP (Time Warner), modem is not the problem. Contacted Linksys router support, router is fine.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.53 GHz), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My Safari browser keeps quitting when try to "fastforward" youtube clips. I am using Safari 5.0.2
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Acer 5750-6677, Windows 7
I have windows XP Operating System, and I have safari installed, but when I open the browser, it hangs and displays a blank white page (without finishing opening any websites). I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but this doesn't seem to work. Also, when I reinstall, all of my bookmarks and reading list are in tact. (although I think if it is officially uninstalled, then none of my bookmarks should be saved). Somehow, it seems to be saving the previous state of the last Safari installation whenever I reinstall.
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Windows Safari, Windows XP
I can not watch any videos either on youtube or ESPN on my MBP using Safari browser. However using chrome I stil can watch the videos. It was all fine until a couple of hours ago, but now..... I have no idea what has happened
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Safari, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I am unable to update safari or any other browser to surf the web. Is there any way I could update the computer to allow this to happen?
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PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.3.x)
My Safari browser keeps freezing up, and does nothing but show the OSX Lollipop. I can temporary fix this by copieing the CONTENT folder from another MAC to mine and restarting, but everytime there is an update to Safari, Java, Flash etc. the same thing happens again.I am running Lion 10.7.3 on an Intel Mac and everything is updated. Safari is 5.1.5
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7)
How do I check to see if my browser has SSL/TLS activated?
I get an error message when trying to log onto a webpage.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
How to increase speed of my Safari browser since removal of Java. I don'tknow why this makes a difference but both Safari and Firefox load all sited very slow. I have checked with my ISP and no change there.
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Mac PC desktop, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I know how to clear my flash cache, but how do I clear my browser?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I have checked "Block pop-up windows" in Safari but still get pop-ups. Yahoo is now doing a pop-up bar at the bottom of the page advertising a new feature. It doesn't seem like Safari is blocking anything: pop-ups are a regular feature on many websites I visit.
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iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
I know benchmarks [URL] tend to give higher numbers for chrome.. But is this true? Is chrome really faster/better than firefox/safari?
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Process: Safari [1656] Path: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Identifier: com.apple.Safari
Version: 5.0.2 (5533.18.5)
Build Info: WebBrowser-75331805~2
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [87].....................
I've built a website in iweb - I've set all the page background and browser background colour to slightly off white - however when I view the website in safari there's a strip of white across the bottom of the page - then if I resize the browser window it updates to the off white colour I have selected... firefox works fine. does anyone else have a problem with browser background like this?
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Does anyone know how this done?
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