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Q: Safari 6.1.6

iMac early 2008, OS X 10.7.5, Safari 6.1.6. Safari very slow to open (spinning wheel) sometimes have to force quit and begin again, then first chosen website slow to open. 2nd computer linked to same router but does not have any such problems (MacMini early 2012, OS X 10.10.5, Safari 9).

Posted on Oct 23, 2015 8:08 AM

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Q: Safari 6.1.6

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  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Oct 24, 2015 8:03 AM in response to everhopeful
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    Oct 24, 2015 8:03 AM in response to everhopeful

    Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items.  Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Reset Safari. The down side is it clears all cookies. Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Library./Caches/com.apple.Safari/Caches.db and move it to the trash.

     

    Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.

     

    Safari Corruption       See post by Linc Davis