sam b.
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Q: Safari 6.0.1 page loading slow or not at all

Friends,

I have scoured the message boards of many self help communities and cannot find a great deal to resolve my question and that of many others -  Safari taking ages to load a page or not at all - having to hit reload several times to get the page to load. I have tried Firefox and Chrome with no problems on the same web pages. This has only started in the last week or so. I am on OS 10.8.2. I have treid the following solutions which do not work for me:

 

Resetting Safari

 

Manually and with software dumping of Safari and Java caches

 

Disabling all Extensions

 

Removing all Website Data

 

Removing Safari's folder to create a complete new one in ~Library

 

Changing DNS

 

Turning off Prefetch DNS

 

Checkiing for virii

 

Turning off virus software

 

Starting up in Safe Mode

 

Repairing Permissions

 

Repairing Prefs

 

Starting up in a Test Guest account

 

Unsyncing Safari from iCloud

 

Making sure of my router having the latest firmware

 

All to no avail. Anything I am missing here in an attempt to solve this issue?

 

Thanks for reading this and cheers for now,

sam

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 3 gig ram

Posted on Sep 30, 2012 7:50 PM

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A:

Linc,

 

I know that I promised NOT to bother you but I thought that you would like to know, as you seem to be a bit of a guru around this community. While in Recovery mode I noticed the Disk Utility and ran it to repair permissions. Previously I ran it while the OSX was up and running normally (also via Appljack in Single User Mode). On both those occasions there were NO permission issues until now. In Recovery Mode Disk Utility found com.apple.alf.plist to have incorrect permissions. Repaired and now no issues with hangs/slowdowns etc.

 

Just FYI.

 

Thanks for you continued help and cheers for now!

Sam

Posted on Oct 1, 2012 8:19 PM

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  • by giovannifg,

    giovannifg giovannifg Mar 9, 2013 10:10 PM in response to giovannifg
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    Mar 9, 2013 10:10 PM in response to giovannifg

    Any news as to this problem? Although now less frequent than it used to be - or is it just me who's getting used to it? - the problem is still there.

     

    The interruptions really happen randomly, with no apparent reason. Sometimes the browsing will be smooth for hors, and then suddenly some sites will experience this delay in loading... Pressing "enter" agai, so effectively forcing the page to reload, will solve the problem.

     

    Any clue is of course much appreciated!

     

    Thanks!

  • by svenUK,

    svenUK svenUK Mar 10, 2013 3:13 AM in response to sam b.
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    Mar 10, 2013 3:13 AM in response to sam b.

    This browsing connection issue is really bugging me now.

     

    As previous posters states it is random, loading a site such as www.google.co.uk will fail then 5 seconds later work....very strange

     

    I have a macbook, imac and ipad all running latest firmware connected via wifi to my router that all experience this browsing issue randomly through the day.

    Yesterday the macbook had a reformat and clean install of 10.8.2...still same issue

    Hence ive come to the conclusion this is an issue with the latest coding of Safari.

     

    I have checked my router, this is working fine. I have even switched off the inbuilt firewall to ensure that is not having an effect and I know im not losing DSL connection as I have downloads that are not being interrupted.

     

    Might try installing firefox later to see if this has same issue

     

    Thanks

  • by giovannifg,

    giovannifg giovannifg Apr 12, 2013 4:00 PM in response to sam b.
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    Apr 12, 2013 4:00 PM in response to sam b.

    The latest update (Safari 6.0.3) seems to have solved the problem. I've waited a while before writing it here, because it would not be the first time that a problem seems to be solve and then comes back as before. However, now it's been some weeks, and Safari is no longer giving me these problems. I'm pretty sure this annoying issue has gone!

  • by mikefromthe canyon,

    mikefromthe canyon mikefromthe canyon Jul 12, 2013 6:33 PM in response to sam b.
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    Jul 12, 2013 6:33 PM in response to sam b.

    This may be a pretty isolated case, but here goes. I used Mail to access my Hotmail and Gmail accounts. All works well, but if I launch the Hotmail (POP) native email client, they (Hotmail and Mail) seem to fight with each other to update, taking up network bandwidth. When I removed the Hotmail account from Mail, the problem went away. The Hotmail mail account is a POP and Gmail is an IMAP. I'm not sure that matters, but POP accounts don't seem as friendly to other clients.

     

    Hope this helps someone.

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