Safari and NY Times website

I've encountered problems recently viewing the NY Times website. I'm using the latest version of Safari, Firefox, and Opera—with Leopard (10.5.4). The Times' pages either will stop loading (freezes) or take an inordinate amount of time. I checked with the Times and was told they couldn't replicate the problem, but recommended using Microsoft's Internet Explorer v. 7, which tells me something. Sure enough, when I access the site using IE 7 in Windows XP, there are no problems at all.

Neither my son nor my wife (using Tiger) experience the problems, using Firefox and Safari, respectively.

Has anyone else had these problems? So far, the problems occur only with the NY Times website; all other sites work fine.

MacBook Pro and Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Aug 19, 2008 7:47 PM

19 replies

davald Author

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5 points

Aug 27, 2008 9:22 AM in response to davald

When I said "ugly" I was referring to Windows' rendition of websites. Safari yields the best looking pages, IMHO.

I checked with my ISP. It appears that I had inadvertently modified the IP settings, which are done manually (each customer has his/her own IP address, etc.). Whether or not that was the problem, for the last couple of days the NYT website downloads quickly.

I'm declaring victory, for now.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Aug 20, 2008 11:43 AM in response to davald

Try updating to the latest version of Flash

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash

Also try emptying your cache and deleting history.

davald Author

Level 1

5 points

Aug 21, 2008 8:11 AM in response to davald

Thanks, but that didn't work. Even the new account using Safari failed to deliver the Times website. It stopped loading before the status bar was half way across.

Aug 21, 2008 7:49 PM in response to davald

The NY Times network is handling ping requests by responding with a host unreachable message indicating action by their firewall. This is not what is disrupting your performance.

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