Steven Wilson
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Q: Slow Safari....Mavericks Update???

Ever since we updated to Mavericks, my wifes and my laptops have been acting slow.  Mostly noticable in Safari, but noticing a few other areas as well.

We both have 13" Macbook Pro's (mid 2012) 2.9 i7, 8GB Ram.

 

The issues:

 

When surfing the web, many/most sites will start to load, then slow, almost to a stop...wait, and then load...sometimes it loads slowly, sometimes it loads fast.

 

Internet download speeds are fine, 15 - 16 mbps at home, and close to 50 mbps at work (same issues at work)

 

Sometimes the finder does not populate very quickly, sometimes taking a minute or so.

 

I have used ONYX to clean, clean, clean... reset safari, cleard cache, deleted cookies, did Permissions and etc.

 

I have also changed DNS and killed the prefetching and etc....

 

ANY SUGGESTIONS?  THIS IS ANNOYING.

Thanks in advance for anyone who can point me in the right direct... and this is the same on BOTH computers.

Steve

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 8 GB RAM - Always Up-To-Date

Posted on Nov 20, 2013 6:21 AM

by thomas_r.,Solvedanswer
thomas_r. thomas_r.
Level 7 (30,924 points)
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A:

no anti virus, and the only extension i have is 1password

 

1Password isn't a problem, I have that one installed myself.

 

thanks, and further help/ideas would be great.

 

Well, further help is in the Mac Performance Guide I gave you a link to. Have you looked there yet?

Posted on Nov 20, 2013 12:35 PM

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  • by rosenzsa,

    rosenzsa rosenzsa Jan 13, 2014 1:52 PM in response to Steven Wilson
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    Jan 13, 2014 1:52 PM in response to Steven Wilson

    Using a MacBook Pro 15/8 MB Ram running OSX 10.9.1 - with Safari launch my fans would run up to 5000 rpm within a few minutes. Closing Safari would bring them down to 2,000 rpm. I first tried repairing permissions, but that did not help. I then removed the Safari cache file as described and all is stable.

    Thanks -

  • by eugen_nw,

    eugen_nw eugen_nw Mar 5, 2014 8:37 PM in response to Steven Wilson
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    Mar 5, 2014 8:37 PM in response to Steven Wilson

    This issue seems to be fixed now, probably by some update that I installed since (which was addressing a completely different issue ;-)

     

    If anyone still has to deal with this, I've noticed that if I quit Safari the problem tends to go away.  After having started Safari again, everything was running fine for a while and then slowed down again to a crawl.

     

    Windows also is also facing similar issues, for the curious people this is how they are addressing the problem: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd837644(v=ws.10).aspx

  • by eugen_nw,

    eugen_nw eugen_nw Oct 15, 2014 10:17 PM in response to Steven Wilson
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    Oct 15, 2014 10:17 PM in response to Steven Wilson

    The "Safari slowing down everything" issue seems to be fixed for me by now.  It'd been fixed by upgrading in increments to Apple's latest released versions and not by any geeky interventions on my part.

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