Emptying Safari's Cache?

Another problem with this disastrous Safari "update" is that as far as I can see you cannot empty safari's cache. Is this true? This is truly a terrible update and cannot understand how it even got passed!!!
Edit. You apparently have to go to Pref---> Advanced then tick 'Show Develop Menu in Menu Bar'!!!

Thanks a bunch for the info! I have taken an AppleScript & assigned it to an Automator Workflow which in turn I've assigned to iCal to schedule for a weekly or monthly emptying of Safari's Cache. Now websites will always load as they should!
Thanks for your help!
Nate

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for an extended time I have had the recurring issue of safari becoming slower and slower... if I am at a site for example espn.. and engaged on a forum... I will encounter problems with posting messages... such as not being able to contact the site... safari just seems to progressively become more twitchy and sluggish over a period of use... my question?
in an attempt to find some level of improving this situation... tried clearing the cache using the safari menu... after this not seeming to have an effect... went to my user library and looked at safari's cache size.. which was around 700-800 mb... what was interesting is after using the safari menu to clear the cache... the size of the cache folder changed very little... so I tried a more extreme approach and just tossed the entire safari cache folder in the trash and deleted... restarted safari and it appeared to be much more responsive... but what I also observed is that within a very short period.. couple of hours... bang up to 600-700 mb of cache...

In the great scheme of things, that is not a very large cache. If your Safari seems slow:
(First, if yours is an Intel Mac, check that Safari is not running in Rosetta, which is enough to slow it to a crawl. If you are running Snow Leopard, run Safari in 32 bit not 64 bit.)
Adding DNS codes to your Network Settings, should gives good results in terms of speed-up as well as added security:
Open System Preferences/Network. Double click on your connection type, or select it in the drop-down menu, and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' add the following two numbers:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
(You can also enter them if you click on Advanced and then DNS)
(An explanation of why that is both safe and a good idea can be read here: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/opendsn-what-is-opendns-why-required-2/2587 /
Open DNS also provides an anti-phishing feature: http://www.opendns.com/solutions/homenetwork/anti-phishing/ )
Wikipedia also has an interesting article about Open DNS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS
Whilst in System Preferences/Network you should also turn off 'IPv6' in your preference pane, as otherwise you may not get the full speed benefit (the DNS resolver will default to making SRV queries). If you want to know what IPv6 is:
This is Apple's guidance on iPv6:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8708.html
Click on Apply Now and close the window.
Restart Safari, and repair permissions.
If that didn't do it, then try this as well:
Empty Safari's cache (from the Safari menu), then close Safari.
Go to Home/Library/Safari and delete the following files:
form values
download.plist
Then go to Home/Library/Preferences and delete
com.apple.Safari.plist
Repair permissions (in Disk Utility).
Start up Safari again, and things should have improved.
More useful information here:
http://guides.macrumors.com/SpeedupSafari

Safari's caches

Hello,
This is hope above experience: does anyone know a way to empty Safari's caches from the
command line?
Big-big thanks if you can find a way,
Mike

Dear Folks,
Thank you for the info. I deleted whatever you suggested and Safari did not stop working
I am sorry that I did not answer you earlier. I did not know that notifications went to my .mac account and it seemed that nobody answered my question.
Every version of OSX seems to be bigger and bigger.
Dutch, French, ..., Spanish.lproj are in huge numbers, each group has some 3-6000 files.
I have one hp printer but I got some 700 MB of files. A lot of culling is awaiting ...
Mike

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When I open a new page then come back to the previous one, rather than just displaying the previous page just as it was when I minimized it by opening a new page Safari tends to redownload the page. This wastes time and bandwidth. I don't think Safari does this in my iPhone or desktop. I don't see any settings I can change. Is this normal? Does anybody else find it as annoying as I do?
Another small issue is that when I open a new page Safari places the insertion bar in the Google search field rather than the url field. This too is annoying and a time waster forcing me to reposition the insertion bar. Is there a way to cause Safari to place the insertion bar in the URL field by default.
Thanks.

Hi Russ,
Tap Settings in the Home screen then Safari / Clear Cache - Cookies and History.
Restart your iPad. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the red slider appears. Slide your finger across the slider to turn off iPad. To turn iPad back on, press and hold the Sleep/Wake until the Apple logo appears.
Hopefully that will kill two birds with one stone.
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I submitted an Apple bug report for this issue, but I wanted to post it to a public forum in case others have experienced this issue. It appears that Safari incorrectly caches the value of window.setTimeout (and does not respect new values to which it is set) if it exceeds a certain number of executions in a setTimeout loop. It's probably best shown through an example.
To reproduce, create an HTML page with the following content, and open it in Safari with the JavaScript console open:
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retry();
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All browsers except Safari correctly output the following to the JS log:
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second retry attempts
retry called
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Safari does not respect the reassignment of window.setTimeout after it has executed in the setTimeout loop too many times. It instead outputs the following:
first retry attempts
retry called (100 times)
second retry attempts
retry called (100 times)
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Thanks for the info! Very useful to not become crazy while debugging it

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At some point recently, Safari's caching with respect to 302 redirects changed.
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URL A is handled dynamically, and redirects the user to one of several possibilities.
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Greetings:
I know this question's been asked ad nuseum here and only because the answers back are more inscrutable than a Chinese crossword puzzle, which is bad enough, then you even get the "well, why do you even wanna do that??" Because I want to! Why don't Firefox and Omniweb users ever get the same silly replies? Sorry if I sound surly, but it's REALLY just a pair of simple Q&As: All I wish to know is 1.) How large is Safari's cache if it's size is non-adjustable and 2.) if it can be adjusted then how do you do it? That's all. On a separate note, I'd be using Safari exclusively if it just offered off-line reading of cached pages like iCab and Firefox.
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James Greenidge
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Secure Empty Trash & Trash Cache

Am old Mac addict home user with Apple from day one but not a guru. Still have Apple IIE that runs like a clock. With 17 Macs in between, years ago when G3 would slow down, get sluggish and tired, I discovered that setting trash cache and deleting many thousands of cached files would invigorate the machine and restore it's original speed using Preferences in TechTool Pro V 3.
Currently have TTP V4 in both G5 Pro Mac OS 10.5.6 and G5 Power Mac OS 10.4.11. Cleaning out old manuals got rid of TTP V2 and V3 manuals. Still have CDs but unfortunately no serial numbers. So, unable to open those programs. Micromat archives couldn't help. Also, unable to use TTP V4 preferences to set trash cache as there's no Preferences capability. Apparently it can be assumed there's no trash cache in current versions of TTP.
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Did you get a response to this? There is no solution listed, but it’s marked Solved.
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