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Slow Safari....Mavericks Update???

Ever since we updated to Mavericks, my wifes and my laptops have been acting slow. Mostly noticable in Safari, but noticing a few other areas as well.

We both have 13" Macbook Pro's (mid 2012) 2.9 i7, 8GB Ram.

The issues:

When surfing the web, many/most sites will start to load, then slow, almost to a stop...wait, and then load...sometimes it loads slowly, sometimes it loads fast.

Internet download speeds are fine, 15 - 16 mbps at home, and close to 50 mbps at work (same issues at work)

Sometimes the finder does not populate very quickly, sometimes taking a minute or so.

I have used ONYX to clean, clean, clean... reset safari, cleard cache, deleted cookies, did Permissions and etc.

I have also changed DNS and killed the prefetching and etc....

ANY SUGGESTIONS? THIS IS ANNOYING.

Thanks in advance for anyone who can point me in the right direct... and this is the same on BOTH computers.

Steve

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 8 GB RAM - Always Up-To-Date

Posted on Nov 20, 2013 6:21 AM

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thomas_r.

Level 7

31,989 points

Posted on Nov 20, 2013 6:24 AM

Do you have any anti-virus software installed? Such software has been known to cause browser issues. What about other browser extensions? In Safari's preferences window, click the Extensions icon... What shows up there?

As for the issues not related to the browser, see my Mac Performance Guide:

http://www.thesafemac.com/mpg

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eugen_nw

Level 1

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Mar 5, 2014 8:37 PM in response to Steven Wilson

This issue seems to be fixed now, probably by some update that I installed since (which was addressing a completely different issue ;-)

If anyone still has to deal with this, I've noticed that if I quit Safari the problem tends to go away. After having started Safari again, everything was running fine for a while and then slowed down again to a crawl.

Windows also is also facing similar issues, for the curious people this is how they are addressing the problem: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd837644(v=ws.10).aspx

eugen_nw

Level 1

13 points

Oct 15, 2014 10:17 PM in response to Steven Wilson

The "Safari slowing down everything" issue seems to be fixed for me by now. It'd been fixed by upgrading in increments to Apple's latest released versions and not by any geeky interventions on my part.

Slow Safari....Mavericks Update???