I would say about 2 days ago, safari started to run at the speed of dial up. It is driving me nuts, I hate going on my mac right now!!!! I really do not know much about computers so, if someone could help me... I would appreciate it!!! I am running OSX 10.5.5 idk y it's so slow!!
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Safari running super slow!!!!
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Are you a Comcast subscriber? Is your ISP throttling your speeds? Is someone else on your network?
To repair permissions, click on finder/applications/utilities/disk utility app/the icon that is your hard drive. then click on the Repair Disk permissions.
Simple. The restart the computer and try the internet then.
Simple. The restart the computer and try the internet then.
Have you been viewing Window Media files? Are you using the Flip4Mac plugin? If so i'd suggest installing the plugin, restarting your system, and giving Safari a go again.
Prior to the latest update WMV files would consistently clog up Safari on my system. I'd have to restart the program to get the sludge out. Just reseting it did nothing.
After the upgrade to 2.2.1, WMV files have cased no problems. I'm running 10.4.11 on a G4. Your results may vary. Good luck!
Prior to the latest update WMV files would consistently clog up Safari on my system. I'd have to restart the program to get the sludge out. Just reseting it did nothing.
After the upgrade to 2.2.1, WMV files have cased no problems. I'm running 10.4.11 on a G4. Your results may vary. Good luck!
I've been reading about this DNSchanger trojan that's been mentioned a lot this week. It supposedly causes web browsing to come to a slow crawl.
Safari has been slow as molasses for me since, I believe, 10.5.2.
The only remedy that works is emptying the cache, then deactivate the cache, and then empty again. I have to do it every time I have loaded just a single page after start up. But from then on, the cache is deactivated and everything is fine. It sucks having to do it, though.
Omniweb (also using webkit) doesn't have this problem at least I haven't encountered it.
The only remedy that works is emptying the cache, then deactivate the cache, and then empty again. I have to do it every time I have loaded just a single page after start up. But from then on, the cache is deactivated and everything is fine. It sucks having to do it, though.
Omniweb (also using webkit) doesn't have this problem at least I haven't encountered it.
ok fair enough. but before we diagnose this as the cause we first but ask nwendt if she/he has installed any QuickTime codecs recently which required the input of an admin password in the Installer application (besides Flip4Mac).
this trojan changes DNS settings so if you are infected addresses (non grey) will be added to the DNS Servers list in System Preferences>Network>Advanced>DNS.
I dont quite understand this post. Our internet has started slowing down in the last week, and today we found DNSchanger on our computer.After isolating and deleting it we still have slow internet. How do we reset our DNS settings.
^ go to DNS in Network preferences and delete the addresses. you may already have some grey inactive addresses, they are fine and are probably from your router.
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Turns out we didnt delete the file. We did it for real this time.
My dad said he "flushed" the DNS settings and now everything is back to normal! WIsh I could inform the genius bar. Had been there twice.
Turns out we didnt delete the file. We did it for real this time.
My dad said he "flushed" the DNS settings and now everything is back to normal! WIsh I could inform the genius bar. Had been there twice.
I'd second the Open DNS suggestion. It's easy to try and I had a similar problem a week ago that Open DNS completely solved.
Give it a shot!
Give it a shot!