It wasn't my computer after all..It was apple so anyone having issues with the slow safari Apple just sent a update to fix it..I just updated mine and finally Safari works and so does mail..now its remembering junk again and it also plays videos finally..I was beginning to think I should have bought a pc
There's a thing I do from time to time that really speeds up Safari (a real noticeable difference) and that is when you are running Safari, go up to the word 'Safari' in the upper left hand corner of your screen, and then down to "Reset Safari," and that clears lots of the junk out. I do that about once a week.
Safari tends to "keep track" of lots of your browsing history, and in the beginning, this really speeds things up, making things lightening fast. But after time (a week, or a month, or several months, depending on how heavily you web surf), all of the information that Safari is saving to speed things up will actually begin to "bog stuff down."
Here is a really rough analogy (the timings are all wrong, but it will give you an idea what I'm trying to say):
Let's say it takes a FULL second for Safari to download a photo from the web. After you download it, Safari will "store it on your computer" just in case you need it again. If you go on the web to locate that photo again, Safari will be like "oh here, I have it right here," and display it in one HALF of a second, because it saved the photo "locally" on the computer.
After time, Safari will have saved not just 10 or 20 or 100 photos and documents, but THOUSANDS of documents and photos. So when you go on the web and it takes one full second, Safari still tries to find that photo "locally" on your computer, but since there are now thousands of photos to sift through, it might actually take TEN seconds to find it (hence the spinning beach ball).
So, as you see, in the beginning, all these things that Safari saves for you will help speed things up. But then there comes a point where it gets bogged down.
That's why "resetting Safari" from time to time is good.
[edited about 15 minutes later...] I just thought of something that may be PERFECT for you. There is a program I use all the time called "Onyx" (Since it runs deep in the System, you'd want to make sure to download it from the developer
http://www.titanium.free.fr for more security) It will "deep clean" your system. When I use it, I checkmark *everything*.
I know there are a lot of people who say that such "deep cleaning" is not necessary on a Mac, etc., and truth-be-told, that may or may not be correct. I don't know... BUT, in your case, because you mentioned that it wasn't your computer, so when you got it, it could have been heavily mucked around with, it might do it some good to "deep clean" it, at least ONCE. However, as with all "deep cleaning" software, be SURE to do a backup on your disk, first, because it is possible things could go wrong.
