Safari takes AGES to load pages and play videos!!!

Hi..

Most YouTube content requires the Flash plugin... try the following.

Uninstall the Flash plugin then reinstall new > Troubleshoot Flash Player | Mac OS

Very important to uninstall the currently installed plugin first.

Quit then relaunch Safari. From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Empty Cache

Now try a video.

BTW... if you have the ClickToFlash extension installed, that can prevent Flash based video from streaming. It can also be installed as a plugin in /Library/Internet-Plug-Ins.

And check to see if Safari is running in 32 bit mode. Right or control click the Safari icon in your Applications folder then click Get Info. If the box next to: Open in 32 bit mode is selected, deselect, quit then relaunch Safari.

Check Safari > Preferences > Extensions. If you have any installed, turn that OFF, quit then relaunch Safari to test.

If it's not an extension issue, try Safari in another user account. Same problems indicates the startup disk may need repairing.

A Safe Mode boot deletes system caches that may help. A Safe Mode boot takes much longer then a normal boot so be patient. Once you see the Desktop, click the Apple menu top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click Restart.

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When was the last time your emptied your Safari cache & History list? That site opens fine for me.

If Safari is getting very slow:

(Presumably you regularly empty your Safari cache by deleting the following file:

Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/cache.db

and clear your History)

Adding Open DNS codes to your Network Preferences, should give good results in terms of speed-up as well as added security, (including anti-phishing and redirects) (Full information about Open DNS is here: http://www.opendns.com/home/nobloat ) and further independent information can be read here:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57338784-263/free-dnscrypt-tool-enhances-ma c-web-security/?tag=mncol;txt

and here:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1146064/troubleshootdns.html?t=234

If you are using a single computer: Open System Preferences/Network. Double click on your connection type, or select it in the drop-down menu, and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' add the following two numbers:

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220

(You can also enter them if you click on Advanced and then DNS)

Sometimes reversing the order of the DNS numbers can be beneficial in cases where there is a long delay before web pages start to load, and then suddenly load at normal speed:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2296

If your computer is part of a network:please refer to this page: http://www.opendns.com/start/best_practices/#your_network and follow the advice given.

If you use a Router, make sure it has the latest firmware installed.

One reason for a slowness in page loading may be the 'DNS Pre-fetching' feature of Safari 5.x as is described here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3408?viewlocale=en_US

You can cancel DNS pre-fetching by going to Terminal and typing:

defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled -boolean false

You have to restart Safari for it to take effect.

If Safari seems to hang for ages:

If you have a lot of tabs open and/or a lot of pages running Flash, Safari can sometimes 'hang', requiring a restart of Safari. This can often be inconvenient, and as it is rarely Safari itself that is hanging but merely one of its plug-ins, usually Flash, there is a way using Terminal to restart the plug-ins (without restarting Safari and losing your tabs) by quitting the WebPluginHost process:

Open the Terminal from the Utilities folder in /Applications and type

killall -9 WebKitPluginHost

Note that this command kills all Safari plug-ins, not just Flash. All plug-ins should start back up when you reload the page.

Then go back to Safari and refresh any pages that were using the Flash plug-in. This also fixes the Beachball of Death. Try this whenever Safari gets slow or freezes. The later versions of Flash 10.1 onwards appear to have improved the situation somewhat, but haven't completed eliminated it.

For this and other reasons Apple switched their websites to HTML5 in January 2011:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/26/apple_revamps_its_public_website_u sing_html5.html

For Snow Leopard/Lion users this should also be read:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3408

Select  ▹ System Preferences ▹ Network ▹ Advanced ▹ TCP/IP ▹ Configure IPv6: Off. Apply your changes and try again. You must apply the changes before they take effect.

Did you test in safe mode?

Your profile says you have a "Mactel." What does that mean?

Please select  ▹ About This Mac ▹ More Info ▹ System Report from the menu bar. Under Hardware Overview, what do you have for the following?

Model Identifier

Boot ROM Version

SMC Version

I forgot that you're not running Lion. Did you test in another account as suggested by Carolyn Samit?