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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / November 2006Safari Performance Questions
Lately my Safari browser has been performing strangely. Often the blue bar that sweeps across the "http" window at the top of the Safari page does not complete its sweep and locks up. Also, I am noticing statements at the bottom of the Safari page saying things like ".......completed 184 out of 191 items", What is going on here? Do I need to make any changes to Safari? Are these symptoms possibly the result of the web pages that Safari is trying to load having instructions that Safari is not equipped to follow? Your information and advice would be much appreciated. > Lately my Safari browser has been performing strangely. Often the blue > bar that sweeps across the "http" window at the top of the Safari page > does not complete its sweep and locks up. Also, I am noticing > statements at the bottom of the Safari page saying things like > ".......completed 184 out of 191 items", I have found this to happen on poorly designed web pages. Any site that has to load 191 items is not using the best web development practices. Could you list some of the URLs of pages that are displaying this problem? In article <1164681715.997496.208180@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, > Lately my Safari browser has been performing strangely. Often the blue > bar that sweeps across the "http" window at the top of the Safari page [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Your information and advice would be much appreciated. Are you trying to access pages that are absurdly big? Is this with all urls or what?  Signaturedorayme > In article > <1164681715.997496.208180@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Are you trying to access pages that are absurdly big? Is this > with all urls or what? Have a look in the Windows->Activity (or something like that; I have a Swedish one) window. It should reveal what's going on. -- To me this sounds/looks normal. It is just telling you how many item, pics, links, etc have loaded on that page that is coming up. That is just Safari as far as I know. > Lately my Safari browser has been performing strangely. Often the blue > bar that sweeps across the "http" window at the top of the Safari page [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Your information and advice would be much appreciated. Two additional points about the problem: 1) These problems do not occur on my PowerBook; they only occur on my iMac G5. This would appear to indicate a possible problem with Safari on the G5. 2) With reference to one of the previous replies, I have the problems consistently when I contact www.cnn.com. The problem also occurs on other sites such as www.washingtonpost.com. Hope this makes the problem statement clearer. > To me this sounds/looks normal. It is just telling you how many item, > pics, links, etc have loaded on that page that is coming up. That is [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > Your information and advice would be much appreciated. > 1) These problems do not occur on my PowerBook; they only occur on my > iMac G5. This would appear to indicate a possible problem with Safari > on the G5. The first thing to try, if you haven't already, is to empty Safari's cache, from the Safari menu. That's often all it takes to clear up problems like this. If you've done this already, or if you try now and it doesn't do the trick, report back and we'll take it from there. Signature<http://designsbymike.biz/macconsultshop.shtml> Mac-themed T-shirts <http://designsbymike.biz/musings.shtml> Mostly muckraking T-shirts <http://designsbymike.biz/prius.shtml> Prius shirts & bumper stickers <http://cafepress.com/comedancing> Ballroom dance-themed shirts & gift Mike, Thanks for the suggestion. I have already tried and did not see any improvement. Any additional thoughts??? On Nov 28, 12:54 pm, mikeP...@TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > > 1) These problems do not occur on my PowerBook; they only occur on my > > iMac G5. This would appear to indicate a possible problem with Safari [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > <http://designsbymike.biz/prius.shtml> Prius shirts & bumper stickers > <http://cafepress.com/comedancing> Ballroom dance-themed shirts & gift > Thanks for the suggestion. I have already tried and did not see any > improvement. > > Any additional thoughts??? You can consider whether you want to try using the Reset Safari command. Doing that may fix your problems, but you may not be willing to try it yet because: "Resetting Safari erases your browsing history, empties the cache, clears the Downloads window, and removes cookies. It also removes any saved names and passwords or other AutoFill text and clears Google search entries." You can, instead, go after these individually. In your home user Library folder (not the main Library at the root level of the hard drive), open the Safari folder and start deleting its contents one at a time, making sure you've quit Safari between attempts. First delete the Icons folder. That's where favicons, those little icons you see to the left of some sites' URLs and in the Bookmarks menu, are stored. Sometimes deleting those is all it takes, and these are _NOT_ removed when you clear the cache. If that doesn't do it, try removing the other items one at time. You can just put them on your desktop rather than deleting them so you can put back any that aren't responsible for your problems. 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[quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > <http://designsbymike.biz/prius.shtml> Prius shirts & bumper stickers > <http://cafepress.com/comedancing> Ballroom dance-themed shirts & gift I know this string is a bit confusing, but I have noticed another "weird" symptom of whatever is my problem. After working on my iMac for a while I am no longer able to access some web sites. When I restart the iMac I can then access the sites. For example, in three separate instances today after about 30 to 60 minutes of activity on the iMac I have been unable to contact any of the Google sites. Then when I restart the computer I can access the sites. At those times when I cannot access the Google sites I cannot gain access via either Safari or Foxfire. This is all getting pretty frustrating. Any additional thoughts??? > Mike, > [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > <http://designsbymike.biz/prius.shtml> Prius shirts & bumper stickers > > <http://cafepress.com/comedancing> Ballroom dance-themed shirts & gift In article <1164770493.556050.288660@l39g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, > I know this string is a bit confusing, but I have noticed another > "weird" symptom of whatever is my problem. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > This is all getting pretty frustrating. Any additional thoughts??? Are you getting trouble with other sites, simple not very busy sites? I can give you some if you want. But I won't yet lest I be accused by all my enemies here of parading my own writings and trying to gain more attention. <g> Signaturedorayme In article <1164770493.556050.288660@l39g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, > I know this string is a bit confusing, but I have noticed another > "weird" symptom of whatever is my problem. [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > > > <http://designsbymike.biz/prius.shtml> Prius shirts & bumper stickers > > > <http://cafepress.com/comedancing> Ballroom dance-themed shirts & gift Please Don't top post. When you loose internet access, try using numeric IP addresses to access the sites you are having problems with nslookup google.com Server: 10.0.1.1 Address: 10.0.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: google.com Address: 64.233.187.99 Name: google.com Address: 64.233.167.99 Name: google.com Address: 72.14.207.99 http://64.233.187.99 http://64.233.167.99 http://72.14.207.99 If this works, then you are having DNS server problems. Look at the /etc/resolv.conf file via the terminal. This should be listing the DNS servers your systems is currently using. Check your ISP's web site to see if they list DNS server addresses and if the /etc/resolv.conf are different then try setting your IPS's DNS server addresses in System Preferences -> Network -> TCP/IP. See if that changes anything. If you can not find DNS server addresses from your ISP, then do a google search (when you do have access) looking for open DNS servers, or public DNS servers, or free DNS servers. If using numeric IP addresses also does not work, then your problem is total lack of connection. In this case you need to check all the components between you and the internet. Home routers, WiFi, cable/dsl modem and all in all your IPS connection. Bob Harris >Two additional points about the problem: > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Hope this makes the problem statement clearer. Select Safari > Empty Cache.. in the menu and restart the program. If a web page has 191 items in it it can cause the program to slow down since it is comparing items in the cache. SignatureIraq Body Count: http://icasualties.org/oif/ Ava Lowery http://www.peacetakescourage.com/whatwillyoudo.html > Lately my Safari browser has been performing strangely. Often the blue > bar that sweeps across the "http" window at the top of the Safari page [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Your information and advice would be much appreciated. Clean out your favicon cache. |
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