Safari 4 slowing to a crawl.

[jbrown]

Seems to be erratic but get to the point where more often then not Safari is so slow it's almost unusablre - and I launch Firefox to get normal speeds.

Any ideas, as I'd like to continue to use Safari🙁

 

[Cinder6]

I had the same problem, but gave up and started using Stainless. Anyways, have you tried resetting it?

 

[BBCuk]

Seems to be erratic but get to the point where more often then not Safari is so slow it's almost unusablre - and I launch Firefox to get normal speeds.

Any ideas, as I'd like to continue to use Safari🙁

Yes I have the same problem. Say if I am playing a flash film file on youtube, in the middle if I am opening another safari window, loading a webpage the application freezes and the little beach ball comes up. It is so frustrating!

I think I have found a solution, try these suggestions on the link provided, it seems to of helped me: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2055476 Good Luck x

 

[lionheartednyhc]

I have the same problem. Safari 4 sucks, its so sloooooow.


I didn't really see anything in that thread pertaining to slowdown, only crashes...

 

[freesonwang]

It hangs right? What's up with that?

Check your console (Console.app) log. Does it say "disk0s2 : I/O error" when it hangs? That's what I got and I swear to god my disk is fine.

 

[Bjohnson33]

I've found the same with Safari 4.0. Give Camino 2.0 beta a try - it's light-weight and snappy. It's essentially the Firefox backbone with a Cocoa GUI. There were a few problems I had using the 1.6 version, but the 2.0 beta has fixed every single one of my problems with it!

 

[Amdahl]

Have you tried Resetting Safari?

If your Console says disk error, then there is a disk error, no matter what you think.