Anybody having trouble with Safari

Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive

Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.

Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive

Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.

When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility and press the Continue button. After Disk Utility loads select the Macintosh HD entry from the the left side list. Click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If Disk Utility reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit Disk Utility and return to the main menu.

Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.

Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

Alternatively, see:

Reinstall OS X Without Erasing the Drive

Choose the version you have installed now:

OS X Yosemite- Reinstall OS X

OS X Mavericks- Reinstall OS X

OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X

OS X Lion- Reinstall Mac OS X

Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet

if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

bakfar wrote:

Since the last download, Safari has slowed to a crawl. My downloads take forever, gmail is at a crawl. I don't have the problem w Chrome but I have too much saved on Safari to start a full switch. Anyone out there have a solution.

Check on Top Sites and edit out any you don't want as top sites. If you don't use top sites - delete them all -- Top sites are REFRESHED if the site changes or if you delete your cache and web data -- of and on the refresh has not worked - I guess - because I did not have the problem with Snow Leopard until after the last apple update -- I didn't use top sites and found that the sites I regularly went into via bookmark or home page were the worst.

I suggest you start by taking the steps recommended in this support article.

Doesn't really apply to the OP's stated problem.