[G4] 10.3.6 safari so slow

[David]

Hello,

Emptying the cache and icon file did nothing to speed Safari up with 
Ebay searches. Safari speed did not help either.

I turned off Javascript, and ebay searches seem to work fine now!
Thanks,
David

On Dec 22, 2004, at 8:42 AM, Ron wrote:

>
> On Dec 22, 2004, at 8:06 AM, Wayne Wilkin wrote:
>
>> Everyone has different opions, you might wait for other responses, 
>> but when Safari does this to me I just go to the your user 
>> directory/Library/Caches/Safari, and delete all the items in this 
>> folder. Log out of your account and log back in. This usually helps.
>>
> This does the same thing as going to Safari/empty cache and can help.
>
> Another thing you can do is delete the Safari Icon folder. Go to 
> Library/Safari and delete the icons folder. Restart Safari. If this 
> folder gets too big it can take longer for Safari to look up the icon 
> than to just reload it. Some empty it regularly along with the cache 
> and deleting the history.
>
> A real speed up for ebay is to turn off JavaScript by going to 
> preferences/security and uncheck the check box. This will help you 
> surf ebay really fast but will limit some of the functions. You can  
> check and uncheck this at will.
>
> HTH
> Ron--
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, at 11:03AM, Melissa 
>> <outmost at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> There's an "empty cache" command under the Safari toolbar menu. This
>>> helps a bit for me but SafariSpeed did not help. I am glad to hear I
>>> am not the only one with this issue! Ebay is especially bad - I
>>> thought maybe it was just holiday traffic, but Internet Explorer is
>>> MUCH faster. I guess I'll try Firefox.
>>> Melissa
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> This is the problem I've been having! I just posted the question
>>>> about command line code (sudo) & how to use it, hoping it would
>>>> address this issue- it has not. So I just added an additional gig of
>>>> Crucial Ballistix Ram PC4000 to my MDD 867, and now have a total of
>>>> 1.75Gigs of RAM- I see a difference, but Safari is still
>>>> Colorwheeling & getting hung up on itself as it tries to load pages.
>>>> How do you manually empty cache without downloading one of these
>>>> automating programs?  I'd like to try to keep things simple, if that
>>>> will address the issue.
>>>> Thanks all- Jim.
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, at 06:04AM, Calvin Knaff
>>>> <knaffc at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Have you tried the Freeware program,  call SafariSpeed v1.2,  look 
>>>>> for
>>>>> it at  <www.versiontracker.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> It might help!
>>>>> Calvin
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>>>>> On Dec 21, 2004, at 6:25 PM, Melissa wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  Hello All-
>>>>>>  Anyone have an extreme Safari speed loss with 10.3.6? It hangs 
>>>>>> at Htt
>>>>>>  & there's a delay in clicks on links before the toolbar even
>>>>>>  highlights (you know, the address in the toolbar.I'd go to 
>>>>>> 10.3.7 but
>>>>>>  I'm worried about the slow starup problems reported.
>>>>>>  Thanks, Melissa
>>>>>
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