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Having some trouble Safari 5.0.6

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Mori1

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Feb 22, 2009
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I really hope someone can help me. I have 2007 MBP that I installed OSX 10.5.8 on 4 weeks ago. Everything was fine until last week when Safari started freezing A Lot. This would cause firefox to slow down and start freezing too. Finally, the only way I could stop the madness was to shut the computer down. I have tried the disk utility program but it found nothing wrong. I tried reinstalling Safari, that worked for a day and half. I went a day just using firefox with no problem but when I tried to open Safari, it took forever to load and I couldn't quit the program. I finally had to shut the computer down. I use firefox but I prefer Safari is there anything that will fix this headache.:(
 
Mori1 said:
I haven't added any ram just the 2GB it came with.
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Open Activity Monitor if it gets slow and look if you have many pageouts, if so more RAM might help.
But, it is strange the machine locks up.
I myself have and had disabled Virtual Memory, the problem with this is that if you run out of physical RAM the system first gets slow until you can't do anything anymore and it eventually crashes since it has nowhere to write the Data to.
So, if you didn't disable it it seems like something more is going on.

You could also install a program (Menu Extra) like MenuMeters, it is a preference pane and you can configure it to show RAM in the Menu Bar.
 
Mori1 said:
Pageouts never changed from 0 bytes.
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So , not RAM which is the problem.

Make a new User Account in Users & Groups preferably an Admin Account, restart and log into the new Account, if there is no problem there the problem is in your normal User Account and can be solved.
 
justperry said:
So , not RAM which is the problem.

Make a new User Account in Users & Groups preferably an Admin Account, restart and log into the new Account, if there is no problem there the problem is in your normal User Account and can be solved.
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Don't understand how this will fix the safari freezing issue?
 
Mori1 said:
Don't understand how this will fix the safari freezing issue?
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A new User Account is clean, without running lots of extras and with clean settings.
This IS many times one of the best ways to see if the User Account is affected or if it is a System wide problem, it takes mere minutes to do so, then if the issue is not there your normal User Account has problems which are only a problem in that Account only, if that is the case you then can find the problem causing this.
 
Mori1 said:
I went accounts in system preferences but not sure how to set up new account.
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Open the Users & groups Preference Pane, click the Padlock if it is locked and enter password, then click the + just above the padlock, that's about it, but do also check the allow user to administer this computer.
 
So I setup a new admin account and safari acted fine. I went back to my old account, started safari and problem.
 
Mori1 said:
So I setup a new admin account and safari acted fine. I went back to my old account, started safari and problem.
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Move the following file to the desktop but quit Safari first, if that helped delete the file, if not put it back.

/Users/****/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

Replace **** with your user name.

Edit: If that did not help go to your Library Folder, inside is a Cache Folder, delete the meta dat>Safari Cache Folder and the com.apple.safari cache folder.
 
For some strange I wasn't getting any hits when I com.apple.Safari.plist. So I search the file individually and I found it but I also found com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist
 
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justperry said:
Move the following file to the desktop but quit Safari first, if that helped delete the file, if not put it back.

/Users/****/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

Replace **** with your user name.

Edit: If that did not help go to your Library Folder, inside is a Cache Folder, delete the meta dat>Safari Cache Folder and the com.apple.safari cache folder.
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Okay, I went to the library folder and found the cache folder but there is no meta dat>Safari cache folder or a com.apple.safari cache folder.
 
Mori1 said:
Okay, I went to the library folder and found the cache folder but there is no meta dat>Safari cache folder or a com.apple.safari cache folder.
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Oops, sorry, I was looking on my 2012 ML Mini.

Just looked on my Powerbook with 10.5.8, they are definitely there.

Be sure to look in your Home Library Folder, not the main Library Folder.

The main Library Folder is at the root level, it is not there.
Look in /Users/yourusername/Library/Caches
 

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Okay, I was looking in the main library. I found the metadata folder and inside was ical and Safari folders. So I should delete the Safari folder?
 
Mori1 said:
Okay, I was looking in the main library. I found the metadata folder and inside was ical and Safari folders. So I should delete the Safari folder?
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Yes, caches are safe to delete, did you also find the com.apple.safari folder inside the Caches folder, delete that one as well.
 
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