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

Littl Wing:

Try this instead--it really sped up Safari for me, but I noticed I needed to do it again about a month later.

At any rate you should see a difference pronto if you:

Click on Safari in the Menu Bar

Choose "Empty Cache"

And that's it! Happy speedy surfing!

Thank you Grant, but I am aware of the two Library folders. I install fonts daily for my work, so I go into these folders often (as there are font folders in both libraries, as well). The com.apple.safari folder is not in either folder.

Marilyn, thank you - that will help one problem (although a few people upthread said simply emptying the cache did not alleviate their speed problem). The thing is, I also would like to be able to access the images in the cache, so I'd like to locate the folder. I can't understand why it's not there. I have to believe it's somehow hidden.

Ok, further to my earlier response, I bit the bullet and tried going into terminal. That worked! Apparently there are 3 libraries, not just 2 and the third was the one I needed. Thanks to all for your help.

One question - has everyone been deleting the jpgs & pngs in the Webpage Previews folder, along with the Cache.db file, or is that not necessary? Does just the Cache.db do it?

My advice above is exactly WRONG. The Caches folder is in /Library, the one at Top-Level, NOT the one in your home directory.

Hmmm... well the one I found the com.apple.safari folder in was, in fact, in the home directory. Each of the 3 Libraries has a Cahes folder - one at the top level, one in System, and one in the home directory. They each have different contents, so it's not like I'm accessing the same folder by a different method. On my system, the com.apple.safari was in the home directory library. In any case, thank you, because I found it... ;-)

Thank you! Like night and day!

thanks! it all worked! made safari work much quicker. no longer slow as a snail.

There are a few things you can do inside Safari that speed it up as well.

One thing tht really bogs it down is the History, which it keeps in RAM. Almost no one needs more than ONE DAY of History. It is easier to do a new Search than go back though all those pages, and all that accumulated History makes Safari Fat and s-l-o-w.

Another surprising thing is to customize the Top Sites display to have larger Icons (read: FEWER sites) on it. However many you have on the page are are all eating resources getting updated in the background -- and making the foreground slower. And they are each like having another tab open as well.

Thanks hugely, also solved my problem. Had a few days of grief with the mac (not all of it my fault) and this has been one problem I've solved easily, once again, thanks

Bonnet is British for the American word hood, the cover over the engine in a car.

"come to grips" means to be able to address and manipulate, like the engine under the hood.

Two years later... And still works like a charm! Thanks so much!!!

Worked like a charm.

@Grant Bennet-Alder

How would you configure Top Sites to show fewer?

Safari 6 (OS X Mountain Lion): View and customize Top Sites

It is not intuitive: To display fewer, ask for each to be LARGER. Then only 6 will fit.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5505581

This is what I'm facing.