Safari no longer loads NY Times Sudoku

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Safari no longer loads NY Times Sudoku

For the past couple of weeks, it has been taking 2-5 minutes to load the Crossword page on the NY Times site. Once it finally loads, it takes another round of multiple minutes to load the Sudoku page, but the puzzle never appears. The Java icon spins for a long time, then disappears. Only an empty box with a red x in the upper left corner remain. I am using OS X 10.5.6, and Safari 3.2.1 (5525.27.1).

I tried Camino, and it had similar issues.

Any suggestions on how to fix this? Is the issue with the NY Times site, or with my computer?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Feb 16, 2009 10:06 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 16, 2009 10:55 PM in response to amd60

You aren't alone with issues using the NY Times site, just try a search here in the forums under Search Discussions on the right.

Aside from that... try some maintenance.

Mac Maintenance Quick Assist

Maintaining Mac OS X

Reset Safari: Launch Safari. From the Menu Bar, select Safari/Reset Safari.
Check the following boxes:

Clear History
Empty the Cache
Remove all cookies
Remove all website icons
Click: Reset

Repair Disk Permissions: Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select FirstAid, then click: Repair Disk Permissions. Quit ** when it's finished and reboot.

Use a disk utility like Onyx available here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/onyx.html Run the Maintenance and Cleaning scripts once a week.

Carolyn 🙂

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amd60 Author

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Feb 19, 2009 4:58 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thank you for your reply. I tried most of your suggestions. None solved the issue. I downloaded Firefox, and it behaved like Safari and Camino. We tried accessing the pages on a newer Mac with an Intel processor, using the latest versions of both Safari and Camino. Same results. IE on a PC worked.

All of this tells me the problem is clearly a NY Times issue. I've reported it, and am supposed to be notified when the problem is fixed. It appears they only test with IE.

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Answer 3

Feb 19, 2009 6:26 PM in response to amd60

"All of this tells me the problem is clearly a NY Times issue."

Considering Microsoft still has a corner on the internet browser market, ie., Internet Explorer, some companies just don't want to be Mac friendly. Unfortunate, but true.

Carolyn 🙂

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Answer 4

Dimaxum

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Feb 20, 2009 8:37 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Hi Carolyn,

This hilarious, I just visit the NYT online newspaper and looking for the Sudoku as in the topic was suggested that this was hard to get on it.

Believe it or not the NYT has on the Sudoku page a ad running for Apple. Now you can't say that they are NOT Apple friendly ... Ha ... Ha ... 🙂

Dimaxum

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