Extremely slow Safari and Fire Fox

Recently - around a week or so ago, my safari and fire fox on my macbook air became excessively slow. I have two macbook airs in my household and one functions perfectly while the other takes a very long time to load any pages, even simple sites such as google. So it is not a problem of my router or my ISP. The interesting thing is that this problem does not affect MSN and downloading whatsoever.
So I was wondering whether there are others out there who have the same problem and/or a solution to this problem. I've thought of wiping my macbook air, but realized i didn't know how to do that on a mac (as i'm traditionally a pc user). So i'm desparately in need of a solution

See my post here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8152807#8152807
Interestingly, I had not upgraded to 10.5.5 when my internet connection started slowing down!

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Hello All
Everytime I create a new tab on Safari and Fire fox a drop down login in box appears with this message :To view this page, you must log in to this area on img2-preview.timeinc.net:80: Does anyone know how I get rid of that?
-Nick

You can try the full offline Reader installer from
http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/
However, no version of the free Reader has editing capabilities.

Larger Tabs in Safari and Fire Fox

I just purchased a new flat screen LCD monitor for my Mac Mini. My new monitor is 24" compared to my old 20" Dell monitor.
I know how to make the font size larger/smaller within a web page (control + or -) but I can't figure out how to make the tab area at the top of the screen larger on both Safari and Fire Fox. How can I make the tab size larger so I can actually see them?
Thanks!
Gina in Texas

Don't return it until you try the resolution change. System Preferences>Hardware/Displays. It will not necessarily look blurry (I didn't have to decrease the rez on my display to such a degree). Play with it a little before you decide it's not working.
I also have lamented the lack of a way to increase the size of the system font. I looked in Universal Access system prefs, but zoom is all that's available there. That was when I just gave up and decreased the resolution on my display. It's still pretty clear to me from about 3 yards away, but my display is much larger than yours. That's why I haven't given any exact advice. You'll just have to tinker around. Make a note of what happens at each resolution and just go through them.
You may have to move your icons around when you figure out which one reads the best. I think you'd have to decrease the rez to a large degree on a very high rez device to really detect a noticeable blur. I'm just talking about tweeking it a bit. Don't start from the lowest and go up, start from your native display rez and go down. This worked for me. I hope it works for you.

Trying to Install Flashplayer Plugg-In for Safari and Fire Fox error 413 Header Length too Large

I have tried to add a flash player plugin for both Safari and Firefox on my Mac. I get directed the Adobe Flash Player download page, once I choose to download the player I get the following error:
413 Header Length too Large.
Both browsers do not have any version of the Flash Player installed.
Any thoughts?

Please use the offline installer:
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_osx.dmg

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Pogo and Fire fox have a difference of opinion. the games worked fine for years on Firefox, but all of a sudden stopped. Did something with Java - pogo- Firefox occur. I do not like using Internet explorer on there it worked for awhile.

There has been a change in the Java security settings, see:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Java#Java_security_prompts
"What should I do when I see a security prompt from Java?":<br>http://www.java.com/en/download/help/appsecuritydialogs.xml
If you visit a website regularly then a possible workaround is to add the URL to the Java Exceptions Site List, see:
*"Why are Java applications blocked by your security settings?":<br>http://www.java.com/en/download/help/java_blocked.xml
*"How can I configure the Exception Site List?":<br>http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/exception_sitelist.xml

PDF maker dosen't apear in my google chrome browser and fire foxe ,pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese help

PDF maker dosen't apear in my google chrome browser and fire foxe ,pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese help

Hi Salim,
In order to enable PDF Maker extension,Please follow the below procedure:
1. Firefox:- Click on Firefox menu on the top right hand side of Firefox Browser, Then choose 'Add-ons', and then In the left hand side, 'Extensions' pane ,Look for 'Adobe Acrobat Create PDF' and enable it from there.
2. Chrome:- Type "chrome://extensions/" without double quotes in Chrome browser's address bar, now Enable 'Adobe Acrobat- Create PDF' Extension.
Hope this helps with your issue.
Please reply back for any further query or assistance.
Regards,
Rahul Tyagi

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I upgraded to ios7 it has extremely slow charging and gets discharged soon and on its own without using my cel pls guide me I'm so worried pls pls guide

My daughter has had her Razr for about 9 months now. About two weeks ago she picked up her phone in the morning on her way to school when she noticed two cracks, both starting at the camera lens. One goes completely to the bottom and the other goes sharply to the side. She has never dropped it and me and my husband went over it with a fine tooth comb. We looked under a magnifying glass and could no find any reason for the glass to crack. Not one ding, scratch or bang. Our daughter really takes good care of her stuff, but we still wanted to make sure before we sent it in for repairs. Well we did and we got a reply from Motorola with a picture of the cracks saying this was customer abuse and that it is not covered under warranty. Even though they did not find any physical damage to back it up. Well I e-mailed them back and told them I did a little research and found pages of people having the same problems. Well I did not hear from them until I received a notice from Fed Ex that they were sending the phone back. NOT FIXED!!! I went to look up why and guess what there is no case open any more for the phone. It has been wiped clean. I put in the RMA # it comes back not found, I put in the ID #, the SN# and all comes back not found. Yet a day earlier all the info was there. I know there is a lot more people like me and all of you, but they just don't want to be bothered so they pay to have it fix, just to have it do it again. Unless they have found the problem and only fixing it on a customer pay only set up. I am furious and will not be recommending this phone to anyone. And to think I was considering this phone for my next up grade! NOT!!!!

Will the new Fire Fox run so well as the actua in my pc? I have an Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.40 GHz 736 MB RAM and Windows XP Version 2002 Service Pack 2 and Fire Fox 3.6.24 or it will take my pc more ressources than currently?

I have an Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.40 GHz 736 MB RAM and Windows XP Version 2002 Service Pack 2 and Fire Fox 3.6.24 or it will take my pc more ressources than currently?

Pay attention to what rkaufmann87 is saying, because I agree.
Chrome is very resource intensive.
It is possible you are running other memory intensive apps.
You have a lot of 3rd party additions loaded at boot time. Do you really need all of them? Even after you get rid of MacCleaner (as suggested by rkaufmann87).
Do you really need the seagate and WD drive software? The Mac is fairly good at accessing disks without 3rd party intervention.
Any of the 3rd party additions listed by EtreCheck that you do not need, you should consider uninstalling.
That fact that you have
171.19 GB Page-ins
in just about 4 days, says you have about 0.5megabytes per second. That is a huge load on your disk drive.
Either cut back on the RAM intensive apps, or get more RAM. At least 8GB, but if your Mac supports it, 16GB. Crucial.com and MacSales.com (OWC) are well respected by the long term forum contributes.

Extremely slow Safari, Mail, Firefox,etc.

I have been experiencing an extremely slow computer. Safari, Apple Mail, Firefox, Apple App store, iTunes store, any app the requires the internet. Sometimes it takes Google.com 30 seconds to load. Apple Mail routinely times out. After loading a web page and then selecting the back button, it takes over 30 seconds to reload the previous page. I have turned off iCloud.
I contacted my ISP, two service calls to check the line and they replaced the cable modem. The results from Speedtest.net were +25Mbps download so their advice was to call Apple.
I have been getting a Recoverd files folder in the trash when I start up the compter. Activity monitor only shows, activity in Finder, Firefox, and Acitvity Monitor, so nothing else is running in the background.
Any suggestions? Have I missed something?
Should I do a Clean Install?
iMac, 27 inch, 3.4 Ghz Intel Core i7, 8GB memory, Mac OS 10.8.2
Thank you.

Boot into Recovery by holding down the key combination command-R at the startup chime. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
Note: You need an always-on Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection to the Internet to use Recovery. It won’t work with USB or PPPoE modems, or with networks that require any kind of authentication other than a WPA or WPA2 Personal password.
From the OS X Utilities screen, select Get Help Online. A clean copy of Safari will launch. No plugins, such as Flash, will be available. While in Recovery, you'll have no access to your saved bookmarks or passwords, so make a note of those before you begin, if they're needed for the test.
Test. After testing, reboot as usual and post the results.

Slow Safari and Firefox with sys. 10.4.11

Since installing sys. 10.4.11 both Safari and Firefox have become extremely slow. Safari can take 25, 30 or more seconds to open a page. I haven't noticed a speed change in other apps. I have a DSL router which serves 4 computers. Sys. 10.4.8 was much faster. Any ideas are welcome.
Thanks.

I've experienced the same thing. Thought it was my DSL ISP and complained numerous times. Went from avg. 2600 kbps down/ 768kbps up to 860 kbps down and 13 kbps up. This range is consistent on all machines on my network, and with both Firefox and Safari. Last night, I hooked up my IBM lap top and re-ran the test: got 2586 kbps down and 457 kbps up on the PC. Now I think my ISP may be correct -- they don't see a problem with the lines. Looking back, the slow down for the Macs coincides with 10.4.11 updates. Tonight I'll begin looking at the Macs to see why they can't connect at the same rate as before the update, and at the same rate as the PC. Any suggestions on how to restore Mac performance?

When Imopen Fire Fox, I get google and Fire Fox's page. I have tried all fixes, no luck

When I open Fire fox I get 2 tabs. One is Google my Homepage and the other is Fire fox's page. I have tried all fixes under help and suggestions with no luck?
Also I want a new page to open in a Tab. I set it to and it defaults back to new window. Also tried all fixes? I have been using Fire fox since day1, I know it pretty well, never had a problem.
Thank You
Doug

This is the reply I got from emailing Adobe.
Thank you for contacting Adobe Support. I am responding to you in refrence to your Web support request dated 13/05/2009 for assistence regarding the issue that video freezes in your computer in IE 8 and Firefox.I am extremely sorry for the inconveneince caused to you . I would have loved to assist you regarding this issue , however i will appreciate if you please register the Adobe product on our web site , WWW.ADOBE.com , which is neccessary for getting suppot. In any case you can always Browse our web site WWW.ADOBE.com for any type of product and support related information. Once you register the product do write us back issue .
Thanks and Regards
Deepak Adobe Support
Again, support people who have no idea how their system works, simply typing a stock answer. How do you register Flash, btw, since, oh, you cannot?

Xul runner platform version is not compatible and fire fox will not open - this is after upgrading to v 5

After trying to updat from 4.0 RC2 to 5.0.1 Error message appears
error: Platform version '2.0.1' is not compatible with min version >=5.0 <=5.0.
Have uninstalled and tried to re install earlier version but now get same error message but now get is not compatible with version >=2.0 <=2.0
currently not able to run or load fire fox at all

See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser_will_not_start_up#XULRunner_error_after_an_update
The updater wasn't able to update all the files and some were left as older versions.
You need to do a clean reinstall.
Download a fresh Firefox copy and save the file to the desktop.
* Firefox 5.0.x: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
* Uninstall your current Firefox version.
* Do not remove personal data when you uninstall the current version.
Remove the Firefox program folder before installing that newly downloaded copy of the Firefox installer.
* It is important to delete the Firefox program folder to remove all the files and make sure that there are no problems with files that were leftover after uninstalling.
Your bookmarks and other profile data are stored elsewhere in the Firefox Profile Folder and won't be affected by a reinstall, but make sure that you do not select to remove personal data if you uninstall Firefox.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup

I was asked to up grade my Firefox, when I did this the system crashed and I have lost use of my book marks and fire fox, I have not been able to fix it.

Two days ago I logged on to Firefox. I recieved a message that told me that I was using an out dated version. I had to up grade . I followed the instruction and when finished fire fox crashed. I am unable to delete firefox, reload it, or use it. I am forced to use Internet Explorer to use my computer. I have lost my book marked sites, and I am at a loss as how to retrieve what I have lost. I have tried to follow the instructions to fix the problem but I have not been able to fix the problem. I sent the crash information but recieved no responce.

cathorio wrote:
I recently changed my lap top. My problem is the new lap top won't accept my apple I D it asked me to sing up for a new one which I did.
I am puzzled by this. The laptop doesn't need the Apple ID - but iTunes does. I could be missing something but ....
Why would you not be able to use your existing Apple ID and iTunes account on a new laptop? If you authorized the computer - you should be able to use your existing account - unless you already had 5 computers authorized with the existing ID - and that was why iTunes would not accept the ID. However, I'm sure that you would have received a popup message from iTunes telling you that you had reached the limit.
I just received a new MBP and my daughter did as well. My entire family shares an Apple ID and we had no issues at all with my Apple ID and iTunes on our new computers and I did not have to sign up for a new account. Did you even try the old ID?

Time Machine very slow, Safari and iTunes have to Force Quit

Anyone else having these issues after Mavericks "upgrade"?
Time Machine is so slow as to be ineffective of useless, symtoms:
     - takes hours to prepare and run a backup of a couple of GB to the Time Capsule, anything up to 20 hrs!
     - constantly revising the amount to be backed up, up and down
     - seems to freeze periodically ad stick part way through with no change to the backed amount for hours, then speeds up, freezes, speeds up
     - time remaining estimate alternates between "casculating, estimates of hours and seconds! wildly inaccurate
              - it's been saying 5 seconds remaining for the last 2 hrs.
     - have done two backup verifications to check for Time Capsule problems - none
     - only two successful backups achieved since the Maverisks "upgrade" due to the time it takes
     - both Time Capsule and Airport Express have the latest firmware and software
Coincident with this, both Safari and iTunes (the latest Mavericks compatible versions) both freeze when trying to quit them - have to force quit. Both experience random slow downs and with the spinning rainbow beachball.
Looks like a Mavericks problem with the Wifi and Timemachine?
Using a late 2008 aluminium unibody Macbook with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, 100Gb of free space o the SSD. Connecting via Wifi to Time Capsule (2TB, with 1.8TB free) and Airport Express (both n Wifi).

Check whether there is a crash report:
Go to your Applications Folder and open your Utilities Folder. Open the application Console.
In the left-hand column, click on Crash Reporter.
Click on the small triangle under Crash Reporter in the l/h column and they will all be listed.
Scroll down to the latest Safari report and click on it.
Now click on the r/h column (which now only shows THAT crash report and then Command-a to copy it all.
Come back here and Command-v it to post it here!

I was typing a post on my blog and Fire Fox crashed. I lost my data. How can I get it back?

Fire Fox has been crashing the last few days. Tonight, I was typing an article post for my blog and it crashed again. I was just finishing the article (900 words). The open sites usually come back up and they all did except the blog post site. I lost all my article post. I worked 3.75 hours on this. How can I get it back?

Did you try:
History menu > Restore Previous Session
I'm not sure that's still available if you've been browsing around again for a while.
''Actually, you used session restore, so that's the same thing.''
I'm not sure what blog platform you use, but I've noticed that WordPress auto-saves for me at regular intervals. If yours doesn't do that, you should definitely see about getting it set up.

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