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Safari - slow loading on web pages -

Strange: If I click on a web page, Safari begins to load the page (from the status indicator) but then doesn't finish. If I simply reload the page,...boom, the page comes up lightning fast.

(this happens, maybe 10% of the time)

Why is this? And what can I do about it?

Thanks.

iMac, 21.5", 3.6 Ghz i5, 8 Gb ram, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 15, 2010 1:36 PM

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Chipnog

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Dec 6, 2010 6:57 AM in response to HV

advice needed on slow page loads too- i have followed many of the contributions but i am still getting very slow page loads - I have safari 5.0.3 and am using os10.5.8. Any more ideas or suggestions please?

Hollyend

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Jan 27, 2011 12:23 AM in response to Chipnog

Hi all something I have noticed, if you open a slow loading site, and then open it again in a second tab the site speed increases ten fold in both tabs!

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HV Author

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Mar 28, 2011 8:05 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Actually, what really made the difference is that the U that I am at increased their bandwidth considerably. THIS made an immediate difference.

HV Author

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Mar 28, 2011 8:07 AM in response to HV

Bandwidth was the problem. Everything is snappy now.

Mar 28, 2011 12:10 PM in response to HV

Hi all. I have also been having this problem since upgrading to Safari 5. It wasn't too bad in the beginning, but got worse and worse. Finally it got to the point where pages would never load, and last night it kept getting slower until it froze, and after an hour I'd have to force quit Safari. In Activity Monitor, Safari was using 2.3GB of virtual memory, and was monopolizing the CPU. What I was doing was trying to buy groceries online at ShopRite. I had to finish this with Firefox, which didn't hiccup.

I tried disabling plugins. I am using Click To Flash. I've tried OpenDNS... that helped for a while, but then got slow again. I'm on a cable modem, so it's not my connection. I realize I'm on an older machine, but Firefox and Opera are nice and fast.

Also, at work on a Mac Pro, it's also not as fast as Safari 4 was.

So today I installed Safari 4.0.5 using Pacifist, and now things are nice and fast again! Some pages load in the blink of an eye. These same sites were making Safari 5 freeze.

So the problem is Safari 5, and not all these other things.

harv47

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Jun 2, 2011 8:43 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

In case others have this problem: I traced the slowdown to the extension SafariRestore. I normally have 10(!) tabs open, so the extension has some work to do to save everything. When it's disabled, Safari's pretty snappy. When it's enabled, Safari's a pig. Under History, the item "Reopen All Windows From Last Session" can be a substitute.

HTH

Harv

Mac Pro (late 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.7), 4 GB RAM, 2 500 GB WD RE3 HD, 20 in CinDisp, 2 TB TM, iPhone 3G

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Jun 28, 2011 12:23 PM in response to harv47

Yeah! Thanks man. That slowlyness drove me crazy. I deactivated SafariRestore and everything is fine again. Could not be happier 🙂🙂🙂

harv47

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Jun 28, 2011 1:23 PM in response to matthias.link.77

Hi Matthias,

Glad it helped!

Harv

Mac Pro (late 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8), 4 GB RAM, 2 500 GB WD RE3 HD, 20 in CinDisp, 2 TB TM, iPhone 3G

Message was edited by: harv47 -- added equipment list. Why doesn't it show up automagically?

Oct 2, 2017 10:38 AM in response to HV

Go to System Preferences

Network

Advanced

TCP/IP Tab

On the bottom

Configure IPv6 change to Off

Restart & Open Safari

Safari - slow loading on web pages -