Mac OS Lion, Slow Safari browsing but everything else normal.

OnyX for OS X also deletes all the cache files, do ALL the cleaning and maintainence aspects and reboot.

It's free and a time proven reliable OS X utility.

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I had given up on Lion, I was gonna get back to snow leopard because of this Safari issue... but THAAAAAAAAAAAANKS! it's back to lightning speed now! I'll be checking frecuently that caché file. Again, THANKS!

I also deleted the contents of Webpage Previews folder inside Safari's cache folder. There were thousands of jpg/png preview files in there adding up to a whopping 2.86 GB.

Thank you so much! I was getting ready to ditch Lion and go back to Snow Leopard! I was so mad! This worked immediately!

Again, thank you very, very much! 🙂

I removed the Cache.db file to the trash because I wasn't able to delete it from Finder. Safari seems fast now and before I did this I had like twelve SBBOD this morning and had to Quit Safari each time to make it go away, so I don't think it's my sysyem per se, but rather something about Safari itself. BTW, I repaired permissions via Disk Utility yesterday and I have Macaroni running it weekly. Thanks to Grafit also for the GO from the top menu hint.

It seems the Library isn't so deeply hidden after all. I'm new enough that Terminal makes me nervous--so glad I didbn't have to go there! Thanks Everyone!

Thanks for this. Safari was hanging on loads of webpages and I was just about to install another browser. That has fixed it for now.🙂

OMG! You were right. After months of cleaning up my computer's HD, talking to Time Warner cable, resetting NRAM and reinstalling OS Lion, this was the fix! Thank you for sharing zyps!

Grafit's "fix" worked great for me..

Thanks!

Logged on to see if anyone else had this problem and found this discussion. The fix worked PERFECTLY!!

Thanks for sharing!!

wow this worked for me too on my MBA 🙂

Thanks soo much. I have a question though. How often should I delete this file? Should I delete it, each time I feel safari is getting too slow? Or once its deleted, does it remain deleted?

The cache is deleted, but builds back up again each time you use Safari.😕

I have found Safari has been better since the last couple of Lion updates, but every now and then I have to go back and delete the Cache. I would suggest deleting the cache when you notice stuff slowing down.

Thanks fior the original post and thanks to Grafit for explanining it step by step

Worked for me too

Thanks for that

I had to load Lion as my mobile me account was coming to an end and needed to use i-cloud. Safari was running so slow from the second I installed it. Deleting the cache file seems to have worked like a charm. You are a genius.

Thank you

I've read this whole discussion and have been having the same problem. I have no problem getting into the Library, as I've kept it saved on my side bar. Unfortunately, my issue is that when I go into the Caches folder, I have no file or folder named com.apple.safari, so obviously I cannot access the Webpage Previews folder. I tried going into the disk utility and doing the verify & repair disk permissions as mentioned above, and while it found similar problems and repaired them, and I now have some new files in the Caches folder, I still have no visible "com.apple.safari" in there.

Any ideas how to locate this folder?

There are two places named Library.

The one that is easy to find is the one at top-level. But that is the system Library.

If you follow any of the several sets of instructions posted above, it will lead you to ~/Library -- in your User Home directory -- where you will find the files you need to manipulate.