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 >>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>>> G4 mailing list >>>>> >>>>> <G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> >>>>> <http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> G4 mailing list >>>>> G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >>>>> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe that >>>> they are free. - Goethe. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> G4 mailing list >>>> G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >>>> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> G4 mailing list >>> G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >>> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 >>> >>> >> >> >> If the Thunder don't get you, the Lightning will! >> _______________________________________________ >> G4 mailing list >> G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 >> > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 >