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Hi,
Ever since I upgraded the OS on my MacBook Pro "17 to Yosemite, Safari has been painfully slow. It takes almost 10 mins to open up the first page. I tried FirFox and it ran well. But I don't really wanna switch. Because Safari bookmarks are sincing with my iPhone. Any suggestions?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), iPhone 4S Black, iPod nano
Did you check the amount of RAM you have, before upgrading to Yosemite. If you have very recently upgraded, perhaps you should go to Safari > about Safari and reset it completely.
Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items. Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Clear History and Web Site Data. The down side is it clears all cookies.Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site.
Eric, that helped a lot. Now Safari opens much faster. But Firefox still outperforms. Is this normal?
After I experienced Firefox, I don't think I can be satisfied with Safari's mediocre performance.
Hey, friend. Thank you for your time trying to helping me out. But I don't see any "reset" button or anything there.
Eric's guidance does the same thing (more or less) but from a different (and better) direction. The loss of the cookies Eric refers to is a temporary loss though, because the moment you go back to the sites the cookies will be inserted again and you will be recognised. No question about the Firefox preference, it is far more regularly security updated than Safari.
You are welcome.
Thank you, Seventy One! Now I clearly understand.
Happy to have helped, alongside Eric.
After Yosemite, Safari became painfully slow.
