Surfing slowed to a crawl

[dawgfan]

Yesterday my MacBook started having trouble loading web pages. I've shutdown and rebooted, but even today it is crawling. It's over 3 years old and never had any issues. What steps should I take to investigate the problem?

 

[rdowns]

Have you rebooted your modem and/or router?

Run Activity Monitor and see if anything is eating processor cycles.

 

[MacDawg]

You might want to clear out your browser's cache, history, cookies, etc. as well just to be sure

Or try another browser to compare

 

[dawgfan]

Thanks. I downloaded Onyx and ran some of the cleaning utilities. Things have improved. I'm confused because I thought the Mac cleared the cache regularly.

Are there any other packages people buy/run for routine maintenance?