[G4] 10.3.6 safari so slow

[Valerie Maples]

Didn't help me one iota!  :-(

Valerie


On 12/22/04 11:20 AM, "Andrew T. Lynch" <atlynch at mac.com> wrote:

> Wow! what a speed improvement!  I'll have to see if I'm missing
> anything...
> 
> -Drew
> 
> On Dec 22, 2004, at 9:02 AM, David wrote:
> 
>> 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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