excelcius
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Q: Safari slow and freezes when loading pages

Hi I've been having a problem with Safari for the past few months it frequently freezes when loading web pages, sometimes it will eventually load, other times it wont. the blue progress bar in the address bar stops on about 10% with a plain white page it doesn't happen all the time but disturbingly it happens on pages as simple as Google search, not just data heavy sites. other symptoms include having to click links several times to get them to respond and I get the you are not connected to the Internet page when I go to some sites only to try another page from my bookmarks and it will load perfectly.

 

Any help greatly appreciated its driving me nuts.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Apr 27, 2012 5:54 AM

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  • by pato_londres,

    pato_londres pato_londres Dec 3, 2012 9:33 AM in response to Gontran Bolduc
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    Dec 3, 2012 9:33 AM in response to Gontran Bolduc

    It's a iMac computer. This is where I have really slow Safari. Thanks

  • by Gontran Bolduc,

    Gontran Bolduc Gontran Bolduc Dec 3, 2012 9:43 AM in response to pato_londres
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    Dec 3, 2012 9:43 AM in response to pato_londres
    • Click on the black apple on the top left of your screen
      • forth down you will see system preference then . . .

        • network

        • wi-fi
        • advance
        • Hardware
        • MTU - Change Automatic to Custom and in the window change from 1500 to 1200 or 1300 or 1400. (The site Thomas Harnish found is really good.)
        • Click on OK and apply

     

    I do not know the best number for you but you could test it (see previeous discussion) but start with 1400.

     

    Good Luck.

  • by pato_londres,

    pato_londres pato_londres Dec 4, 2012 6:36 AM in response to Gontran Bolduc
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    Dec 4, 2012 6:36 AM in response to Gontran Bolduc

    The problem is after clicking on 'advance' I do not have;

        • Hardware
        • MTU - Change Automatic to Custom and in the window change from 1500 to 1200 or 1300 or 1400. (The site Thomas Harnish found is really good.)
        • Click on OK and apply

     

    I have what I show on the picture I previously sent you

  • by Gontran Bolduc,

    Gontran Bolduc Gontran Bolduc Dec 4, 2012 1:33 PM in response to pato_londres
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    Dec 4, 2012 1:33 PM in response to pato_londres

    Advance is on bottom right of the screen. Try to send me a picture of your screen. Gontranbolduc@me.com

  • by smb2415,

    smb2415 smb2415 Jan 3, 2013 2:35 PM in response to excelcius
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    Jan 3, 2013 2:35 PM in response to excelcius

    I have found that if I disable icloud for Safari the pages load much quicker.   I then enable only periodically to sync.

  • by Dan_kernel,

    Dan_kernel Dan_kernel Jan 16, 2013 12:19 PM in response to excelcius
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    Jan 16, 2013 12:19 PM in response to excelcius

    I have exaclty the same problem!

  • by Dan_kernel,

    Dan_kernel Dan_kernel Jan 16, 2013 12:41 PM in response to smb2415
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    Jan 16, 2013 12:41 PM in response to smb2415

    Thanks smb2415! It worked for me too... Disabling icloud for safari solved the problem!

     

    I hope that apple will release a fix for this issue. icloud sync for safari isn't usefull at all if you have to sacrifice browsing speed!

  • by Glen M,

    Glen M Glen M Jan 16, 2013 4:14 PM in response to Dan_kernel
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    Jan 16, 2013 4:14 PM in response to Dan_kernel

    If you don't have the very latest Mac AND if you're not living within 2 blocks of Cupertino with 20Mb/sec fiber-optic cable, then iCloud is more of a 50 ton communications anchor being pulled by your Apple Prius... uphill. Shut it down completely, then slowly add one item at a time, but only if you really, really, need it. And they wonder why Apple's stock continues to suck.

  • by Thomas Harnish,

    Thomas Harnish Thomas Harnish Jan 16, 2013 5:10 PM in response to Glen M
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    Jan 16, 2013 5:10 PM in response to Glen M

    That's one opinion, Glen M.

     

    Panel members for the March SXSW conferences in Austin met to discuss who's going to talk about what. They were in London. Copenhagen, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Hoboken, and San Diego.

     

    We had an an hour video conference on an iPad Mini!

     

    A few years ago that would be a sci-fi scenario.

     

    I'm not selling my stock.

  • by excelcius,

    excelcius excelcius Jan 17, 2013 5:17 AM in response to smb2415
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    Jan 17, 2013 5:17 AM in response to smb2415

    Hi smb2415 I think the iCloud issue is a separate one, I had the same issue, the problem is that iCloud makes duplicates of some bookmarks in my case it duplicated one of my bookmarks 21,000 times yes you read that right 21 thousand times. as a result iCloud takes forever to sync all those duplicate bookmarks and you get the spinning wheel of death when you launch safari.

     

    You might want too check your bookmarks see if you have any duplicates mine was hidden in a folder structure which is why I didn't notice it at first. Hope this helps.

     

    I still have the wifi issue tho despite having tried messing around with EVERY wifi setting and tried every non solution I found online, the problem comes and goes.

  • by Saxman,

    Saxman Saxman Jan 29, 2013 12:29 PM in response to pato_londres
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    Jan 29, 2013 12:29 PM in response to pato_londres

    I have the same view, no "Hardware" setting, perhaps that's only on post- Snow Leopard OS, yes?

    I also have no setting for iCloud in preferences...

  • by michgandeerhounder,

    michgandeerhounder michgandeerhounder Mar 10, 2013 8:43 AM in response to excelcius
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    Mar 10, 2013 8:43 AM in response to excelcius

    I upgraded my iMac, Macbook Pro and MacBook Air to Mountain Lion.  I have been experiencing constant slow loading on Safari, but ONLY on my iMac.  The Macbook Pro & Air have been just fine.

     

    Thanks so much to the guys who posted the info on changing the DNS and MTU.  I did both of those things and restarted Safari on my iMac and now Safari runs just fine.  At last!!!!

  • by Saxman,

    Saxman Saxman Mar 10, 2013 11:02 AM in response to G.Madigan
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    Mar 10, 2013 11:02 AM in response to G.Madigan

    I just added the DNS server you suggested, however, as soon as I added that, the other three on the list just vanished! I have no idea how they got there, as I had last entered the Open DNS server numbers, and these were different (despite my having the Network Preferences "locked" (some security that was).. Any idea why this happened?

  • by Saxman,

    Saxman Saxman Mar 10, 2013 11:04 AM in response to Gontran Bolduc
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    Mar 10, 2013 11:04 AM in response to Gontran Bolduc

    Gontran, he IS on the Advance page, and mine looks exactly the same, there is no "Hardware" anywhere on the screen.

  • by Saxman,

    Saxman Saxman Mar 10, 2013 5:31 PM in response to G.Madigan
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    Mar 10, 2013 5:31 PM in response to G.Madigan

    Well, I used the DNS server numbers you recommended, and now Safari is working more slowly, and still using tons of RAM, so now I'm going to try the Open DNS Server numbers...

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