Hello, I'm hoping for some help with making my web browsers run normally again. I watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O9NNK74KIQ and followed some of the advice to create more space in my startup disk, mainly removing all website date from safari. After that though I noticed that my web browsers (Safari, Firefox) began running very slowly. Any suggestions?
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Is it running extremely slow? Like unbearably slow? Or just noticeably slow? If you cleared your cookies and cache files I would expect the web browsers to feel a bit slower than normal. Part of the reason your computer saves those particular files is to help the web browser load webpages that you've visited in the past quicker. Kinda like remembering a persons name, versus having to introduce yourself every single time you meet each other. (bad analogy, but it makes my point). Without those files, your computer will begin recreating all those files and "reintroducing" itself to each website.
Now if your web browsers feel slow after a day or two, then perhaps something else is going on.
Thanks for your reply. It is running noticeably slow, but videos run unbearably slow, such as on Netflix.
Hard to say. You said that you "mainly" removed data from Safari, but not both Safari and Firefox are running slower? Two other simple things you could do is to download Chrome and see if there's a difference there, as well as run a free internet speed test to be sure that your speeds are what you're paying your ISP for.
Web browsers working very slow after clearing the cache
