[CUBE] [P1] weird Safari?

[George Pepper]

I have zero problems with Safari... It's quicker than IE/Mac for me 
[Mac OS X.ii.viii on Xserve, Cube, TiBook, and iBook]... I haven't used 
IE for months... Thinking about uninstalling it...

Repair Permissions!...

Pep

On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 05:25  AM, David Iverson wrote:

> I come across certain URL's that cause me problems, American Express 
> being
> the most hideous and one that I am on several times per day.
>
> Other sites cause no problems at all.  Previously, there were problems 
> all
> over the place, but a well regulated militia of Permission Repair 
> holds them
> down to a minimum.
>
> I am considering an inexpensive program from www.atomicbird.com called
> Macaroni that will ostensibly run the permissions repair and several 
> other
> UNIX routines in the background.  What I don't know is if it will let 
> you
> set it up as an administrator and run without being there to attend to 
> it.
>
> Dave Iverson
>
>
>
>
>> From: "J.C. Webber III" <jcw at kingoblio.com>
>> Reply-To: Cube List <Cube at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:22:03 -0800 (PST)
>> To: Cube List <Cube at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Subject: Re: [CUBE] [P1] weird Safari?
>>
>> Jean-Paul Thuot wrote:
>>>
>>> On 18/03/2004, at 4:54, Don Hinkle wrote:
>>>
>>>> My wifi connection is ON, and the Mail program is working fine.
>>>> BUT, Safari just goes into an endless gear-whirling thing when I try
>>>> to select any URLs.
>>>> Any idea why?
>>>>
>>> I too have had nothing but hassles with Safari.  I was so excited to
>>> use something not Microsoft and not bloated Netscape for my first 
>>> foray
>>> into Macintosh.  However, Safari does this same thing to me 
>>> endlessly,
>>> taking minutes to load (if at all) where IE:Mac will load in seconds.
>>>
>>> I have checked for corrupted pref files, and repaired permissions 
>>> till
>>> the cows came home (how they found MY home I'll never know!) to no
>>> avail.
>>>
>>> If anyone has insight into this issue I'd be very glad, because all
>>> I've ever heard is great things about
>>> Safari that have yet to prove themselves on my machine (G3 dual USB).
>>>
>>> Jean-Paul
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That's so sad to hear.  I use Safari exclusively, no problems.
>> Maybe it's the sites you visit?
>>
>> Can you send me a few of your more troubling urls and I'll see
>> if I have the same kind of problems with them?
>
>
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