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Safari & Ebay?
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I would open Safari, purge the cache, close, delete the preferences, boot from a OSX disk, repair the permissions & repair the disk, and then try. If that fails to fix the problem I would download a fresh copy of safari, use FIND and search for everything Safari, delete everything, then reinstall a fresh copy of Safari.
thanks
David
Hi
I would open Safari, purge the cache, close, delete the preferences, boot from a OSX disk, repair the permissions & repair the disk, and then try. If that fails to fix the problem I would download a fresh copy of safari, use FIND and search for everything Safari, delete everything, then reinstall a fresh copy of Safari.
thanks
David
Safari & Ebay
When I use Safari on Ebay, it will let me perform one search, then whenever I hit the search button - it will not search...
Has anyone experienced this problem?
When I use Safari on Ebay, it will let me perform one search, then whenever I hit the search button - it will not search...
Has anyone experienced this problem?
I have that problem quite a bit. I also have that problem on The Internet Archive. It seems to be worse since upgraing to the lastest version. I hope Apple know what they are doing...
It happens to me too, it's because there is an error while loading, you'll see it in the activity window, or on the bottom of the screen if you have the status bar showing, and then it won't let you do anything, reloading doesn't even help me.
my solution goto www.ebay.ca and then it works.
my solution goto www.ebay.ca and then it works.
I have that problem. I can usually avoid it if I let the page load completely before doing anything.dreamignition said:
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I don't know about US/Canadian eBay, but on eBay UK there are two search boxes (why?) but I find the one in the top right (sort of a general search) is Safari unfriendly, whereas the the one on the left, further down, nearer the items is usually ok.
(Just looked at ebay.com, and the one on the left on the uk site that works is slightly more central on the US site). Hope that helps!
(Just looked at ebay.com, and the one on the left on the uk site that works is slightly more central on the US site). Hope that helps!
Never had a problem with eBay or the Internet Archieve.
Running Dual 1.8 G5, 1 GB of RAM, OS 10.3.6 and Safari 1.2.4
Running Dual 1.8 G5, 1 GB of RAM, OS 10.3.6 and Safari 1.2.4
Yeah, I've been noticing terrible problems with eBay and safari lately as well. It doesn't quit on my, but hangs up when loading every page, and progressively gets worse. If I open Activity Monitor after searching on eBay for maybe 30 minutes or so, AM shows Safari using almost 100% CPU when it is loading pages, and shows "safari hung" for 5 seconds or so with each page load. Plus, it shows very high memory usage, such as 600+MB of real memory and over a gig of virtual memory. (Both figures continually rise while surfing...) I see tons of beach ball on eBay, but it never jut plain quits, at least not yet.
I'm using a new 1.5ghz powerbook with 2 gigs of RAM, on a high-speed network. Page loads should be instant with a setup like this, to say the least! All this beach ball and slow eBaying makes it feel like I'm using my old 266mhz pentium II to surf the net with a 28.8 modem on a bad day...
(Yes, I've repaied permissions, ran man janitor, cleared the cache, etc...) Restarting Safari helps, but it just gets more and more bogged down with time.
I'm using a new 1.5ghz powerbook with 2 gigs of RAM, on a high-speed network. Page loads should be instant with a setup like this, to say the least! All this beach ball and slow eBaying makes it feel like I'm using my old 266mhz pentium II to surf the net with a 28.8 modem on a bad day...
(Yes, I've repaied permissions, ran man janitor, cleared the cache, etc...) Restarting Safari helps, but it just gets more and more bogged down with time.
Firefox works much better than Safari
We were experiencing very slow page loads on Ebay compared to my 2 Windows PCs. The P4 laptop loaded in 2.8 sec, and the Pentium 600 loaded in 3 s. The iMac G4 800 loaded in 15 s and the eMac G4 1000 loaded in 8 s. Internet Explorer on both computers loaded at about the same rates. No improvement.
Firefox really improved both. The iMac G4 loaded in 7-8 s and the eMac loaded in 3 s.
The iMac was being slowed by Virex, whereas the eMac did not have the Virex installed. When I "forced quit" on the Virex, the speed of the iMac improved to about 3.5 s to load (with Firefox).
I would really appreciate help on how to uninstall Virex. I can't seem to stop it.
Greg
We were experiencing very slow page loads on Ebay compared to my 2 Windows PCs. The P4 laptop loaded in 2.8 sec, and the Pentium 600 loaded in 3 s. The iMac G4 800 loaded in 15 s and the eMac G4 1000 loaded in 8 s. Internet Explorer on both computers loaded at about the same rates. No improvement.
Firefox really improved both. The iMac G4 loaded in 7-8 s and the eMac loaded in 3 s.
The iMac was being slowed by Virex, whereas the eMac did not have the Virex installed. When I "forced quit" on the Virex, the speed of the iMac improved to about 3.5 s to load (with Firefox).
I would really appreciate help on how to uninstall Virex. I can't seem to stop it.
Greg
ShermDog said:
I used to have to do that......but sometime after 10.3.....? I was able to start using Safari to upload pics to eBay.
Safari
Not sure how helpful this is but I visit ebay almost every day using Firefox and have never had a problem. In fact I rarely use Safari, give Firefox a try, its great.
Not sure how helpful this is but I visit ebay almost every day using Firefox and have never had a problem. In fact I rarely use Safari, give Firefox a try, its great.
Upgrade to Virex 7.5 (download on Mac.com), then run the VirexUninstall.command file in the disk image distributed with Virex 7.5.Zebragreg said: