Just would like to know if its me or just Safari that has a problem. Go to http://www.theapplecollection.com and see if it slows to a hault. I've tried the same page with camino and no problems.
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Safari Slowdown
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slows my safari, and whole computer for that much
safari took 88% of cpu while on that page...after loaded!
safari 2.0, pbg4 1.5, tiger
safari took 88% of cpu while on that page...after loaded!
safari 2.0, pbg4 1.5, tiger
i have noticed the same thing lately, on some sites using Safari is like viewing the internet on a dial-up connection, using Firefox for now...
Glad to hear im not the only one with this problem, I guess untill it gets fixed I'll just have to use Camino.
Part of the problem is that POS site has a bajillion moving/changing icons. It's like attack of the 1994 dancing baby HTML all over again.
Looks like Safari gets REALLY memory hungry when there are animated gifs involved and that site has a LOT of them, my virtual memory for Safari was around 290MB before visiting that site and when I opened it in a tab it's virtual memory usage jumped up to just over 1GB. 
That would be why it slows down for some but not others, those like me who have 2GB in their Powerbook wouldn't notice a problem but those with less would get quite a bit of slowdown as disk swapping comes into play.
That would be why it slows down for some but not others, those like me who have 2GB in their Powerbook wouldn't notice a problem but those with less would get quite a bit of slowdown as disk swapping comes into play.
Safari does like to use a lot of memory. Even with the 1.25 GB of memory I have, Safari slows down sometimes. Maybe resetting Safari would help (it does for me).
If you're seeing a general slowdown in Safari (lots of beach balls) it's often time for a bit of general maintenance. I'm not sure if it's permissions rot or cache issues, but AppleJack has always fixed it for me.
I recommend this thing so often I'm beginning to feel like a shill (or the author, which I'm not), but the fact is it really works.
I recommend this thing so often I'm beginning to feel like a shill (or the author, which I'm not), but the fact is it really works.
Read the readme you need to restart in single user mode and type applejack auto(or AUTO) at the prompt.
rossoUK said:
Google is your friend.
Second link:
http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/commandline/single-user.html
You cannot miss the prompt. SUM is all command line.
Hmmm I swear I replied to this earlier and that there was other posts as well that are no longer here, has some mod just been deleting posts or what?
Although I've noticed a lot of general weirdness going on in these forums lately, especially surrounding Last Posts not being correct, it is like messages are just disappearing...
Although I've noticed a lot of general weirdness going on in these forums lately, especially surrounding Last Posts not being correct, it is like messages are just disappearing...
jaseone said:
You did post to this thread. Post #9.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/1502139/
If you're talking about the contents of the post you get in email and then go to the thread and you see a different post, the email tells you what's up:
rossoUK said:
Don't use AppleJack? Sounds like it's cleaning out whatever files are storing your BT info.
Safari is sometimes soo slow for me it's painful, like right now. I just did an erase and install a week ago so I'm not sure what could be causing this?
Most of the time it's quick as heck loading pages in a second or two.
Gonna try Firefox for a while and see what happens.
Most of the time it's quick as heck loading pages in a second or two.
Gonna try Firefox for a while and see what happens.