Fwd: [X4U] Slow safari

Samantha Cornell samantha at netresults.biz
Fri Dec 10 08:33:02 PST 2004


Great input from Don Levy:


>  used Mozilla for some time and far preferred it to Safari. Safari has
> problems rendering some pages/sites correctly, and in such cases often 
> takes
> far longer to load the pages than other browsers, even timing out 
> (failing)
> after over a minute.
>
> I design web sites (in addition to doing Mac support) and one of my 
> clients
> had a board of directors, two of whom used Safari. I spent over a week
> trying to figure out why the site (which was designed entirely in
> Dreamweaver, known for its relatively clean code) was having such 
> problems.
> Finally, I determined, by trial and error, that Safari was choking on 
> some
> standard javascript, and fixed it by manually changing the code. My 
> hunch is
> that Safari (Apple) is "right," in that the code probably doesn't 
> adhere
> strictly to common standards (while Microsoft IE and Mozilla/Netscape) 
> do,
> but that "purity" caused me to do a couple of things:
>
> 1. Dump using Safari personally.
> 2. Decide, along with the owner of the client business, that the time 
> and
> effort it took to make the site "Safari-friendly" just wasn't 
> justified,
> given that even in a very Mac-centric group of site visitors few were
> actually using it (our statistics showed less than .5% of all users on
> Safari, and even just among Mac users (about a third of visitors to the
> site), only about 1% used it.
>
> More recently, I became aware of Firefox a month or two ago and 
> downloaded
> it. I think it's head and shoulders over all the others, and now use it
> personally as my main browser. It has many, many features no other 
> browser
> offers, or features that they do have, but that Firefox executes better
> and/more elegantly. That, plus the ability to customize it to exactly 
> the
> way I like to work, and over 100 optional plug-ins, almost all of them 
> free,
> that do fantastic jobs right within the browser, has gotten me to 
> recommend
> it to all my clients. I especially love the instant search for 
> bookmarks by
> keyword or partial words, making it easy again to find that needle in 
> my
> messy bookmark haystack. There've been a very few sites that Firefox 
> didn't
> work well with, but overall, I still prefer it to every other browser 
> I've
> tried, and in those rare instances, I usually fire up IE or Safari.
>
> The developers of Firefox just came out with a companion email 
> program, thus
> far with favorable reviews, but I plan to stick to Microsoft's 
> Entourage
> (which, by the way, seems to integrate with Firefox almost like they 
> were
> made to fit together hand and glove, and far better than Entourage 
> works
> even with Microsoft's own Internet Explorer).
>
> P.S. Do me a favor and post this reply to the list. For some reason, I 
> don't
> seem able to do so. I don't get a "bounce" response, but messages just 
> never
> show up. I've written the list owner for help, but never got a reply. 
> Odd.
> Perhaps he'll see this and take a moment to email or phone me.
>
> Regards,
>
> Don
>
> ------------------------
> Don Levy
> The Mac Therapist
> Los Angeles
> 323-225-2228
>
> http://mactherapist.com
>
> donlevy at mactherapist.com
> ------------------------
>
>
>
>
>> From: Samantha Cornell <samantha at netresults.biz>
>> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
>> <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:51:01 -0500
>> To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
>> <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Subject: Re: [X4U] Slow safari
>>
>> I'm guess it's not a problem with my system.
>>
>> I'm going to try mozilla, has anyone had any success with their 
>> browser?
>>
>> I liked that Safari was compact, and didn't have all the extra 
>> features
>> that I don't need.  What browsers are other people using?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> Sam
>>
>> On Dec 9, 2004, at 8:26 PM, Al Grappone wrote:
>>
>>>> I have noticed for the past few weeks that after being open for a
>>>> while (15 minutes or so), safari seems to be slowing down.  This is
>>>> most noticeable on ebay, when I click on something it appears to
>>>> freeze for 15 seconds or so, then begins to load.  It is almost
>>>> reminiscent of my dial-up days.  If iI then go to another sight - 
>>>> say
>>>> apple.com or cnn.com...it continues to be slow.
>>>>
>>>> This does not occur on other browsers...but I seem to be attached to
>>>> Safari.
>>>>
>>>> It may have began when I last updated, but I'm not sure.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?  I have, of course, repaired permissions and dumped the
>>>> cache.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Samantha
>>>
>>> Same here.
>>
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