Safari 6.0 and Mail 6.0 issues with Mountain Lion

I'm having all kinds of issues with Safari 6.0. For one it's incredibly slow. I've done the reset with zero results. I'm unable to log onto CNN's web site for commentary (I can do so using Firefox). So far I'm less than impressed overall with Mountain Lion. My entire system seems slower.

I'm having lots of lag issues with Safari as well. I've moved to Chrome until it's resolved.

I'm having precisely the same problems after migrating my account from an '06 MacBook Pro running Lion to my new Retina running Mountain Lion.

Safari absolutely refuses to load the Yahoo front page. Certain other pages won't load. My outgoing mail (using apple mail through yahoo's POP account) is slow or just won't go.

I've tried repairing permissions, creating a new account, clearing preferences in the Library, deleting Safari extensions. Nothing works. The Apple help line guys can't figure it out. I might go and get my $3000 back.

Same Boat as WarEagle...

Migrated from '06 MBP (L) to MBP retina (ML)

Mail: Works fine until either the app goes tot he background, or the machine goes to sleep after which it won't get or send mail. Once I quit and relaunch it works again.

Safari: SLOOOOWWWWW. Frequently pages won't load. Very hit or miss. Google News seems to be fine, but then clicking on an article and it's hit or miss as to whether the site will load.

I've done all the basic steps - permissions, zapping, yada yada...

Might do a clean install but would rather not have to deal with importing all my mail and the manual migration and reinstallation.

sigh.

I tried this and it resolved the problem:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/02/fix-os-x-mountain-lion-wireless-connection-proble ms/

Gillsworld wrote:

Hi There,

Over the weekend I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Mountain Lion and ever since the upgrade I now am facing the following issues:

1. I can not send email using my iCloud IMAP account with Mail 6.0 (however receiving mail is fine and sending from the iCloud.com url is fine also)

2. Safari 6.0 lags and does not load sites. (if I reset Safari it will work for the first couple of sites but then the issue happens again)

Does anyone have a fix or is experiencing the same two problems?

Thanks

Are you current with applicable post-June 2012 hardware firmware updates?

Are you at ML 10.8 or ML 10.8.1?

The following reflect my iCloud mail settings that work. Also double check that you do not have a spurious or wrong character in your password string - voice of experience. I am running ML 10.8.1.

Mail

In Mail > Preferences > Accounts > iCloud > Account Information.

Uncheck enable this account.

Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): iCloud (iCloud)

Use only this server is checked.

TLS Certificate: None

Accounts > iCloud > Advanced

IMAP Path Prefix: blank

Port: 993

Use SSL is checked

Authentication: Apple Token

Use IDLE command if the server supports it is checked

Accounts > iCloud > Account Information

Enable this account is checked again.

Click on the top red button to save changes.

If you did not already have these settings, check if you can send mail now.

Safari 6

Preferences > Bookmarks > Bonjour off

Extensions > off

Security > Java off, all others checked

Safari > Reset Safari ... all boxes checked. Reset.

Exit Safari.

In Finder, navigate to your home Library/Caches folder. Double check this location; then select (Cmd-A) and move everything to Trash. Don't delete yet.

If not using Flash Player, skip the next step.

System Preferences > Flash Player > Delete All ...

Reboot the system.

Empty the trash

Launch Safari. Improvements?

Before I installed an SSD, Safari 6 would lag on launch, spin the beach ball, and so far, has crashed twice (plug-ins). The beach ball was likely an attempt to digest my 420K bookmark file. After the SSD, it snaps on the screen. No beach ball. Much better.