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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / January 2005Safari hanging up
Safari is taking so much time loading some sites, lately, I've taken to using Explorer again, which is a drag. Is there some type of maintenance I should be doing to get it back up to speed? > Safari is taking so much time loading some sites, lately, I've taken to > using Explorer again, which is a drag. Is there some type of > maintenance I should be doing to get it back up to speed? Safari likes to maintain a big favicon cache from which it never deletes anything. Enter this on the command line: rm -rf ~/Library/Safari/Icons You will probably find that Safari is 99.44% zippier afterward. Another thing you can do is delete the file ~/Library/Safari/Form Values, which stores the data you've entered into Web forms in Safari. Safari doesn't do any pruning of this file, either, and it will continue to grow without bound. I have found OmniWeb not to have these problems and to be well worth the $30. It's essentially Safari plus everything you wish Safari had, but without the things you dislike about Safari.  SignatureJerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/> Send only plain text messages under 32K to the Reply-To address. This mailbox is filtered aggressively to thwart spam and viruses. > Safari likes to maintain a big favicon cache from which it never > deletes anything. Enter this on the command line: > > rm -rf ~/Library/Safari/Icons > > You will probably find that Safari is 99.44% zippier afterward. it certainly is! Thanks! SignatureJohn Rethorst jrethorst at post dot com > > Safari likes to maintain a big favicon cache from which it never > > deletes anything. Enter this on the command line: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > it certainly is! Thanks! On which command line, Jerry. I tried putting it into the address line of Safari, duh, and that didn't work! Is it a Terminal command? And if so, do I just type it in after opening Terminal (which I don't as a rule understand). Kind regards, Devi > > > Safari likes to maintain a big favicon cache from which it never > > > deletes anything. Enter this on the command line: [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Is it a Terminal command? And if so, do I just type it in after opening > Terminal (which I don't as a rule understand). Yeah, that's a Unix commmand, and it goes in the Terminal. SignatureJerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/> Send only plain text messages under 32K to the Reply-To address. This mailbox is filtered aggressively to thwart spam and viruses. >> > Safari likes to maintain a big favicon cache from which it never >> > deletes anything. Enter this on the command line: [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >Is it a Terminal command? And if so, do I just type it in after opening >Terminal (which I don't as a rule understand). Yes, this is a terminal command. Simply start the terminal and type the above command exactly. Then press enter. You should just get the pormpt back with no output. Then you can quit Terminal. -Stephen SignatureSpace Age Cybernomad Stephen Adams malchus842SP@AMgmail.com (remove SPAM to reply) > > Safari is taking so much time loading some sites, lately, I've taken to > > using Explorer again, which is a drag. Is there some type of [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > the $30. It's essentially Safari plus everything you wish Safari had, > but without the things you dislike about Safari. How does Firefox compare in terms of cache issues, then? > > > Safari is taking so much time loading some sites, lately, I've taken to > > > using Explorer again, which is a drag. Is there some type of [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > How does Firefox compare in terms of cache issues, then? It's fine with its disk cache, although it does tend to eat all available memory if you don't curb it. After a long session you can find other applications swapping a lot. What you have to do is go to about:config, right-click in the preference list, add a new preference called browser.cache.memory.capacity, and set its value to 16000 or thereabouts. SignatureJerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/> Send only plain text messages under 32K to the Reply-To address. This mailbox is filtered aggressively to thwart spam and viruses. Jerry, how do this? Where is "About"? Where is "config"? Where is the preference list? "What you have to do is go to about:config, right-click in the preference list, add a new preference called browser.cache.memory.capacity, and set its value to 16000 or thereabouts." > Jerry, how do this? Where is "About"? Where is "config"? Where is the > preference list? about:config is a URL. Enter it in the location field. When you do that, you'll see where the preference list is. %) > "What you have to do is go to > about:config, right-click in the preference list, add a new preference > called browser.cache.memory.capacity, and set its value to 16000 or > thereabouts." SignatureJerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/> Send only plain text messages under 32K to the Reply-To address. This mailbox is filtered aggressively to thwart spam and viruses. > It's fine with its disk cache, although it does tend to eat all > available memory if you don't curb it. After a long session you can > find other applications swapping a lot. What you have to do is go to > about:config, right-click in the preference list, add a new preference > called browser.cache.memory.capacity, and set its value to 16000 or > thereabouts. "right-click"? How with a (standard) 1-button mouse or trackpad? You sure you're not using Windows? SignaturePlease, no "Go Google this" replies. I wouldn't ask a question here if I hadn't done that already. DaveC me@privacy.net This is an invalid return address Please reply in the news group > > It's fine with its disk cache, although it does tend to eat all > > available memory if you don't curb it. After a long session you can [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > "right-click"? How with a (standard) 1-button mouse or trackpad? Sorry, I've been using multi-button mice on my Mac for the last ten years or so. If you don't have one, just mentally insert "control-click" until you do. > You sure you're not using Windows? Wouldn't matter if I were for Firefox, since it's the same on all platforms. SignatureJerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/> Send only plain text messages under 32K to the Reply-To address. This mailbox is filtered aggressively to thwart spam and viruses. > > How does Firefox compare in terms of cache issues, then? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > called browser.cache.memory.capacity, and set its value to 16000 or > thereabouts. Does this affect only firefox or all browsers? BTW I did it and the "type" came out to be string? Do I want integer instead? How do I change that? Are such tricks documented somewhere? Thanks. > > > How does Firefox compare in terms of cache issues, then? > > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > "type" came out to be string? Do I want integer instead? How do I > change that? Are such tricks documented somewhere? Thanks. This particular configuration setting is for Firefox only. Yeah, you want integer. Just delete the string one you added, and add it again as integer instead. SignatureJerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/> Send only plain text messages under 32K to the Reply-To address. This mailbox is filtered aggressively to thwart spam and viruses. > Yeah, you want integer. Just delete the string one you added, and add > it again as integer instead. I am embarrassed to admit it but I can't figure out how to delete it. I can modify the value but the type remains string. This is why I hate GUI sometimes: Selecting and pressing delete doesn't work. Left click does nothing, right click gives no option to delete. Creating a new integer string with the same name fails. How to delete or change type? What is the name of this file? I could try editing the line out in terminal. Thanks. > > Yeah, you want integer. Just delete the string one you added, and add > > it again as integer instead. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > What is the name of this file? I could try editing the line out in > terminal. It's called prefs.js and it's inside your home directory, in the Application Support folder, subfolder Firefox, then in that folder there's a folder called Profiles, then in that there's one called default.xxx (the xxx will be different on each machine). Probably easier just to search for it. If you open it up in TextWrangler (it's free now!) you'll probably find a line like this somewhere in there: user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", "16000"); Make sure Firefox isn't running, then just take the quotes off the 16000 so it looks like this: user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 16000); If that doesn't work, just delete that line entirely and re-add it through Firefox about:config. SignatureJerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/> Send only plain text messages under 32K to the Reply-To address. This mailbox is filtered aggressively to thwart spam and viruses. > It's called prefs.js and it's inside your home directory, in the > Application Support folder, subfolder Firefox, then in that folder [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Make sure Firefox isn't running, then just take the quotes off the > 16000 so it looks like this: Thanks, it works! Maddening that you should not be able to do it in about:config. Another mystery was that when I located prefs.js and right-clicked, it offered to open in BBedit rather than say Simple Text or Emacs, both of which I also have. Now I know I got BBedit but I don't remember setting it as my default editor, unless I unknowingly clicked on something sometime (how often I have been tricked into setting some site as my "home page"!). Anyway, it got the job done. I'll watch to see if FF is any preppier. BTW, how do we get 16000? Where do I pick up this level familiarity with OSX and its apps? :) > > It's called prefs.js and it's inside your home directory, in the > > Application Support folder, subfolder Firefox, then in that folder [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > sometime (how often I have been tricked into setting some site as my > "home page"!). Anyway, it got the job done. Probably BBEdit said "I can handle .js files" and no other program you've installed has claimed them. That's set differently for every type of file, so you could have different editors set for other kinds of text files. > I'll watch to see if FF is any preppier. BTW, how do we get 16000? > Where do I pick up this level familiarity with OSX and its apps? :) 16000K (that number is kilobytes) is about 16 megabytes. You could use a bigger or smaller value, but everyone who's recommending this setting suggests 16000. Probably it originated with one of the Firefox developers, although that's not guaranteed. The number's not really that important; what's important is that it stops Firefox from using as much memory as it wants and limits it to 16M. To pick up this level of familiarity with Firefox, you could start here: <http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips> (It's got some Windows stuff in there but most of it's applicable to all platforms including Mac OS X.) They suggest editing prefs.js directly, but using about:config is generally considered "safer" since it's harder to make a mistake in syntax. It does the same thing. SignatureJerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/> Send only plain text messages under 32K to the Reply-To address. This mailbox is filtered aggressively to thwart spam and viruses. Jerry, I went to the Safari file in the Library and tossed the icon file. I hope that's what you meant. How does one enter a commmand line? Where does it go? >Jerry, I went to the Safari file in the Library and tossed the icon >file. I hope that's what you meant. That should do it. >How does one enter a commmand line? Where does it go? Go to Applications --> Utilities and double-click on Terminal A window will open and you will have command line access to Mac OSX. This is a "unix" command shell. Here's some info: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2001/12/14/terminal_one.html http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/01/22/terminal_pt2.html -Stephen SignatureSpace Age Cybernomad Stephen Adams malchus842SP@AMgmail.com (remove SPAM to reply) |
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