safari webpage sometime showing "Safari cannot open the page" and its hanging sometimes.
always getting the pop up about purchasing mackeeper.
could anyone please help me in this regard.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Under no circumstances install or pay for MacKeeper.
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:
and here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1146064/troubleshootdns.html?t=234
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)
always getting the pop up about purchasing mackeeper.
Quit Safari (by force if necessary.) Relaunch it by holding down the shift key and clicking its icon in the Dock. That will stop the page from reloading automatically. Select Safari ▹ Preferences ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove all website data to get rid of any cookies or other data left by the server.
Adding DNS servers to an existing list is normally futile as only the first working DNS server will ever be used.
To force a new DNS server put it first and restart. I often use 8.8.8.8
Does "Remove all website data" work with this version of Safari?
Some Safari versions don't remove Flash files or HTML 5 data in local storage.
A quick way to delete Flash cookies is the Flush.app:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/32994/flush
Adding DNS servers to an existing list is normally futile as only the first working DNS server will ever be used.
You will find that adding the Open DNS servers greys out your ISP's server.
As regards clearing HTML5 storage from Safari, this may interest you:
http://superuser.com/questions/236558/how-to-clear-all-html5-local-storage-from- safari
Can we assume that the OP's Safari will clear local storage?
I think you will find there are considerably more Flash files than just cookies. There is a web based Flash utility to inhibit local storage although it does not remove history items.
Your remark about a greyed out DNS server perplexed me for a while. I suspect you are referring to the situation when a first local DNS server is inserted where only a DHCP server existed before. If so this is nothing to do with Open, ISP or any other specific types of DNS server. We do not know if the OP already had non-DHCP DNS servers listed. It is important to give general advice which will work in a wide range of cases although even I have assumed the OP is not behind a firewall with a proxy server!
It is important to give general advice which will work in a wide range of cases
Thank you for your advice. As you can see I am completely new to this.
oops - must remember to look at points before posting - at least you are unlikely to increase your points by 50% in 24 hours as I have done !
My mother used to live in Somerset - how is the small city?
My mother used to live in Somerset - how is the small city?
Which one? 😕
England's smallest.
That would be Wells. I live about 2 miles from Wells.
Wells is very well, thank you! 😀
I Googled and saw a post of yours on another site.
wow! thanks, solved my problem
safari is hanging in between and sometimes showing "safari cannot display the webpage"
