Quite a while back, I switched from Firefox back to Safari, because Firefox was driving me crazy with it's intermittent freezes and whatnot. Safari was so much faster and allowed tabbing to menu form fields (which I think Firefox STILL does not do).
But lately, it seems like Safari just slogs through everything it tries to do. Google maps is painful. Loading up the CBS website earlier took over a minute, and not because of a slow connection. The spinning beachball now appears on every click it seems. This is was Safari 3, so I updated to Safari 4 beta, and it doesn't seem much better. It's odd because it didn't used to be like this...it just sort of started out of nowhere. One thing I do notice is that my hard drive is just churning away with activity at these times.
Any ideas what could cause such random slowdowns? Restarting does not help...it's just as slow afterwards. Ugh, hopefully I can figure this out, but I think I need to switch back to Firefox in the time being. Ugh.
MacBook Pro 17" 2.0 Ghz, 2GB Ram, 160GB HD
But lately, it seems like Safari just slogs through everything it tries to do. Google maps is painful. Loading up the CBS website earlier took over a minute, and not because of a slow connection. The spinning beachball now appears on every click it seems. This is was Safari 3, so I updated to Safari 4 beta, and it doesn't seem much better. It's odd because it didn't used to be like this...it just sort of started out of nowhere. One thing I do notice is that my hard drive is just churning away with activity at these times.
Any ideas what could cause such random slowdowns? Restarting does not help...it's just as slow afterwards. Ugh, hopefully I can figure this out, but I think I need to switch back to Firefox in the time being. Ugh.
MacBook Pro 17" 2.0 Ghz, 2GB Ram, 160GB HD
