Browsers (Safari, Firefox) slugish and slow

[Nothapy]

Hello,

I have an 21' iMac (4 gig Ram, 3.06 i3) with 10.6.8 and I use safari 5.1.2 (which I keep 'naked' and constantly reset it) and firefox 8.0.1 which i have bookmarks, pass-codes, ect and fasterfox lite on.

My internet speed is about 40 mbps. Starcraft 2 runs fine ol, downloading is fine, my computer runs great actually...except the browser(s)...

It doesn't matter what kind I use (chrome, opera included) my browsers are always sluggish and very inconstant. I cannot open any extra tabs and have to constantly quit the browser and reload. My iPad 1 and Iphone 4s browsers work faster and so does my friends older labtop as I have done comparisons. I've tried using an open DNS and creating another user profile nether helped.

Any hints would be helpful.

 

[MisterMe]

What is the capacity of your hard drive?
How much of the capacity is free space?

 

[Uglystik]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)

Input the correct proxy servers from your service provider would help faster browsing speed.

 

[Nothapy]

What is the capacity of your hard drive?
How much of the capacity is free space?

-500 gigs

-415 gigs free

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Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)

Input the correct proxy servers from your service provider would help faster browsing speed.

ok i'll call my isp and check what they are

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My isp says they don't use proxies. Any other suggestions?

 

[MisterMe]

... My isp says they don't use proxies. Any other suggestions?

I see no technical reason for your problems. That leaves a "custom configuration" by the user. The easiest way to test that is to create a new account for testing. The new account will have the default configuration. If things work properly in your new account, then you should replicate its setting in your working account.