Some websites don't load..

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Some websites don't load..

Some websites like www.engadget.com, www.facebook.com, and www.youtube.com, will appear to load, but never do as they provide me with an error page, I think it says something like "server not responding". Also, in the Status bar, Safari will say "contacting www. ***.com" before showing the error page.

That happened on one 8MB wifi connection.

Now, I am using a different wifi, much slower, wifi connection, and the pages load with no problems at all.

What could be the problem?

I have had this problem before and after upgrading to Safari 5.

Message was edited by: Zadjali

MacBook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Jun 10, 2010 9:52 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 10, 2010 11:12 AM in response to Zadjali

Hi,

Try repairing disk permissions...

Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.

Also, from the Safari Menu Bar click Safari/Empty Cache. Relaunch Safari. Try accessing one of those sites. If you still have problems, go back to the Safari Menu Bar, click: Safari/Reset Safari. Select the top 6 buttons. Click Reset.

Relaunch Safari...

Carolyn 🙂

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Zadjali Author

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Jun 10, 2010 11:17 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

I've done that already. I forgot to mention it! I'll try it again.
I've tried repairing the Disk, however, it comes up with an error, whereby I need to use the Mac OS X CDS, but my optical drive doesn't work ):

Resetting safari didn't work either.

I noticed that when I run all the options in Onyx and then restart, the websites work again for a little while (under 10 minutes), though I have to login again since Onyx deletes the cookies.

Thank you for taking time to reply! (:

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Answer 3

Jun 10, 2010 11:31 AM in response to Zadjali

HI,

I've tried repairing the Disk, however, it comes up with an error

That's not good. It's really important that you have the optical drive repaired so you can repair the
startup disk.

🙂

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Zadjali Author

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Jun 11, 2010 6:53 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

I repaired the permissions on the 'bad' connection, then emptied the cache. Voilà! Let's hope it stays like this!

Carolyn.. Thank you very much!

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Zadjali Author

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Jun 12, 2010 8:03 AM in response to Zadjali

AAAARRRGGGHHH!! ):
*sane mode - on*
It appears that I have to repeat the process of repairing permissions, restarting, emptying cache, THEN browsing, every once in a while, a few times a day.

Is there a solution?

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