Safari won't load webpages

Noted. "Authorized support" here in Saudi Arabia is essentially nonexistent in addition to the language barrier. I don't want someone I don't know or trust implicitly touching my computer. ...make more sense, peanut gallery?

Hi, I'm still 10.6...8? I think. Part of not being able to upgrade because apl won't accept my visa suddenly. I researched that upgrade yesterday but aside from the payment issue I didn't trust myself to not make the problem worse trying an upgrade. But I will keep your advice in mind, definitely! Thank you

Paul - I use the software update button regularly and usually there's nothing. All I remember is that something finally updated, installed and restarted about 10 days ago when I did. I don't know how to check to see what it was. And I don't like using time machine because of whatever else it might change/undo.

Tom - Firefox also does not work for the same sites. I don't have chrome at home.

Just bummed..everything was FINE and then BOOM, not fine. I've never researched problems online with mac or pc, tried different solutions on my own or in forums and had the problem NOT get fixed lickity split. aargh.

Any other ideas?

Thank you, I'll look to see if there's a button like that. But I don't remember seeing one.

I'm tethered through wifi (since tethering via usb stopped working with the last os update - see the dozens of forum complaints about that). I've done the same thing for years with no issues except wifi instead of usb now. I don't have an alternative, although I have tried the neighbors wifi and the same few web pages still won't open.

I have NO antivirus programs running (The first thing I learned not to do when I switched to mac, what a relief that was). Parental controls are off, checked that friday. I don't think I have anything like this installed, although I did just switch my blog from wordpress.com to self hosting, so I have been experimenting with MAMP local host to play with themes and plugins. BUT, the problems started well after that, and a few weeks after I stopped using it and started doing everything live online instead. And I don't import/export from my local host to my self hosted site, they're entirely separate. I also went into those files and specifically deleted all the plugins and downloads from my local thingy just to see if it changed anything. Nothing.

I went into utilities and did the verify scan thing, all clear there too. I wish there were more diagnostic and cleaning type utilities in the mac. I've run every one I can find and they're telling me there's no problem. Shoudl have paid more attention the day it happened so I could localize the lesion.

thank you all so much for helping!

hmmm. I forgot ..for about 4 days just before this weekend, my iphone also wouldn't access some pages, just 20% loaded the blue line and stayed there. So I'm trying again now, and it's the same. For example goodreads.com.... won't load. If I went directly to a /login or /about link for these pages they'll half load with scrambled appearance, but never fully just spins and spins and goes nowhere.

There are pages censored in Saudi, but they are obvious with a warning message. So I don't think it's that. And how could it be my phone/ISP if I can still access most sites?

Tom - I just tried openDNS and google but no change. And as of coming home tonight now Facebook won't open either. Just loads and loads endlessly.

Pinterest even happened in stages, first half the images wouldn't show up, now nothing. It's like somethings eating through my internet. For 1 day this weekend I couldn't access the apple site/support/forums, it took another day before they pages started loading.

Paul - I cannot find anything that shows recent updates now that I'm home to look.

In the long one I wrote a few boxes up... I tether with my iphone wifi. I've tried the neighbors wifi but same problem.

Everything else works, email, most websites. Not sure what to do next either 😟

Here's a weird new development... I just clicked pinterest again just to check (I do this often) and up popped (immediately) the log in page. So I logged in and the site popped up. WEIRD! goodreads still not loading, nor facebook or upworthy. So why does pinterest suddenly like me?

ah..the questions of life.....

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