First Macbook

Hello i am new here and to Macs .I must admit i am having a terrible time with Safari hanging slow crashing i use FF but i am wondering if i am doing something wrong? this is my first notebook also i love the portability. i just want to enjoy the Macbook experience but so far i am just tearing my hair out.i read as much as i can here to learn the ins and outs of this MACBOOK so please bear with me as i learn my way around.. is there another browser that would work in place of SAFARI with less known problems thanks so much SUE

Hello Sue,
Welcome to the world of Apple
You might find Safari acts a bit more spritely if you change the DNS settings on your machine. DNS is what one computer uses to find the location of another computer to be able to talk to it. If your DNS are slow to respond with the location then you will see Safari acting very slow. This link describes everything you would need to do. Have a read and see what you think:
https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/start/device/apple-osx-leopard
(Firefox appears to have it's own method for using DNS which is why it may appear unaffected.)
Other browsers you might want to try are:
- [Camino|www.caminobrowser.org] (my favourite)
- [Opera|www.opera.com]
- [OmniWeb|www.omnigroup.com/omniweb] (not free, but lots of features)
- [iCab|http://www.icab.de/screenshots.html]
Hope that helps.

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