Safari Speed Tip

[dance2noise002]

I know this is probably a really simple thing, and perhaps you have seen this video on Youtube many times.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUm62292HxY

But simply putting these 2 lines of code into Terminal and restarting Safari has made it 10x faster. It's even faster and snappier than Google Chrome on my machine! No more lagging, no more beachballing, it's just constantly fast!

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitResourceTimedLayoutDelay 0.0001

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 0.25

Unbelievable!

 

[LPZ]

What version of Safari are you using? These keys are not present in Safari 5, and I doubt they have any effect at all for any recent version of Safari.

 

[dance2noise002]

I'm using Safari 5, there is absolutely a speed increase! Haven't lagged or beachballed in days now! Try it and see!

 

[GGJstudios]

What version of Safari are you using? These keys are not present in Safari 5, and I doubt they have any effect at all for any recent version of Safari.

I don't know specifically about these two, but some keys are not present until you add them with a Terminal command.

 

[LPZ]

I'm using Safari 5, there is absolutely a speed increase! Haven't lagged or beachballed in days now! Try it and see!

I did try it. I saw no change.

I also tried

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitResourceTimedLayoutDelay 10000

and saw no change. I restarted Safari after each invocation of the defaults command.

If you believe this makes Safari snappier, more power to you. Why not do

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitResourceTimedLayoutDelay 0.000001

and make it even faster!

 

[dance2noise002]

Strange,

However i did enter
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 0.25

first.