Fix for Slow Safari

My Safari suddenly became slow - 1.5 mins to load homepage, redirecting to sites etc, had same problem with Firefox.
Turns out it was a DNS changer Spyware programme - believe it came from youtuby type sight when downloading a video codec.
Solved problem by going to Macscan Website, downloading free removal tool. everything back to normal now both Safari and Firefox fizzing along.
Hope this helps

A number of people reported that Safari was running
very slow for them on Windows. I was someone who was
also seeing the same behavior. Web pages that would
open up in 2 seconds under IE7 could take literally
minutes to fully draw in Safari.
Your mileage may vary, but this really did work for
me. Nothing else I had tried (clearing the cache,
re-installing, etc.) made a difference...but this
did. Not sure why it's not affecting everyone, but
this doesn't seem to have any negative side effects.
IE7 is still working fine for me with the
"Automatically Detect" box unchecked.
Please, report this bug to Radar: http://bugreport.apple.com It's important to notice Apple developers about this issue

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Fix For Slow Safari On Windows

A number of people reported that Safari was running very slow for them on Windows. I was someone who was also seeing the same behavior. Web pages that would open up in 2 seconds under IE7 could take literally minutes to fully draw in Safari.
Someone mentioned a proxy issue in one of the other threads, and I got to thinking about that...I made a tiny change, and the problem is gone! Safari is now full steam ahead for me, compared to the snail is was before.
Here is how I fixed the issue.
1 - Click Start and open the Control Panel.
2 - Open the "Internet Options" Control Panel.
3 - Click the "Connections" tab at the top.
4 - Click the "LAN Settings" button at the bottom.
5 - Uncheck the "Automatically Detect Settings" Box.
6 - Click OK to exit the "LAN Settings" window.
7 - Click OK to exit the "Internet Options" window.
Your mileage may vary, but this really did work for me. Nothing else I had tried (clearing the cache, re-installing, etc.) made a difference...but this did. Not sure why it's not affecting everyone, but this doesn't seem to have any negative side effects. IE7 is still working fine for me with the "Automatically Detect" box unchecked.
Enjoy!
-- Matthew Ryan

A number of people reported that Safari was running
very slow for them on Windows. I was someone who was
also seeing the same behavior. Web pages that would
open up in 2 seconds under IE7 could take literally
minutes to fully draw in Safari.
Your mileage may vary, but this really did work for
me. Nothing else I had tried (clearing the cache,
re-installing, etc.) made a difference...but this
did. Not sure why it's not affecting everyone, but
this doesn't seem to have any negative side effects.
IE7 is still working fine for me with the
"Automatically Detect" box unchecked.
Please, report this bug to Radar: http://bugreport.apple.com It's important to notice Apple developers about this issue

Fix for slow safari browsing speeds

I am experiencing very slow browsing speeds with Safari after upgrading my Macbook with 4G memory to 10.8.2. Other programs seem to to lagging as well. What can I do to manage my open programs to speed things up? Other ideas?

A number of people reported that Safari was running
very slow for them on Windows. I was someone who was
also seeing the same behavior. Web pages that would
open up in 2 seconds under IE7 could take literally
minutes to fully draw in Safari.
Your mileage may vary, but this really did work for
me. Nothing else I had tried (clearing the cache,
re-installing, etc.) made a difference...but this
did. Not sure why it's not affecting everyone, but
this doesn't seem to have any negative side effects.
IE7 is still working fine for me with the
"Automatically Detect" box unchecked.
Please, report this bug to Radar: http://bugreport.apple.com It's important to notice Apple developers about this issue

Fix For Slow Printing To IPP Printer Pool

Here's a fix that might help someone out there:
I have a printer pool with two HP Laserjet printers that's shared via IPP on an Xserve running Mac OS X Server 10.5.
One of the printers is offline with a fuser error, so as expected, the server is sending all jobs to the other printer; however even small jobs are now taking an extra 1-2 minutes to get to that printer. Before one of the printers went offline, small jobs would print almost instantaneously.
Since printing speed was normal for other, non-pooled printers shared by the server, I figured the delay was probably related to the server taking too long to decide that the offline printer was actually offline.
I figured that the fastest way for the server to determine that a pooled printer is busy is when it has a job in its queue waiting to print. So, I logged into the server and sent a job directly to the offline printer's queue; the job will just sit there and won't print, but the server will think the printer is busy.
That eliminated the delay. It's annoying that the delay is there at all, since the whole point of the printer pool is too have redundancy if one printer runs out of paper or malfunctions. If anyone has any ideas on a more concrete way to eliminate this delay, please share them.

Hi,
Do the programs freeze for about 2 minutes each time when attempting to print something?
Do we use spooling? If not, we can enable the setting
Spool print documents so program finishes printing faster and its sub-setting
Start printing immediately to see if it helps.
Regarding this setting, the following article can be referred to for more information.
Setting print spooler options
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc739118(v=ws.10).aspx#feedback
Besides, the following article provides some workaround for slow network printing and can be worth taking a look.
Workarounds for slow network printing
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/workarounds-for-slow-network-printing/
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Potential fix for slow/unreliable network on Macbook Air running Mavericks

Hi all,
I work in IT support at University of Manchester, UK and have found a fix for for network issues we were experiencing with Macbook Air laptops running Mavericks. These Airs were having issues connecting to our WiFi and experiencing slow downloads, even when switched over to UBS LAN adaptors.
Anyhow, after trawling these forums without success I stumbled upon this solution myself so thought I'd share:
Basically, if you are experiencing speed/connection issues go into the 'Advanced' network settings and change the IPv6 setting from 'Automatic' to 'Link Local' and then reboot. Hopefully, after doing this you should find your speed levels return to expected levels!
Hope it works for you.
Cheers.

Follow these instructions:
OS X v10.9 Mavericks: Installing and Using the Printer on a Mac HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Printer - E709n | HP® Support
If the printer still doesn't work, try this:
OS X Mavericks: Reset the printing system

Fix For Slow Down Worked!

From a previous fix - this worked to eliminate what was a 5 to 10 minute startup and shut down problem for our iMAC using OS X 10.5.8. with the 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processor - from a thread from a while back (and sorry, I am not going through all the folks that contributed, but the dogs are ready to go outside):
(full excerpt below my procedures)
Procedures -
x - first close all unnecessary applications
1 - go to applications
2 - load the Terminal App
3 - type: sudo chown root:admin /
4 - then press the return key
5 - type in your password when asked (the screen will not show that you are typing)and the press the return key
6 - type: sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
7 - then press the return key
8 - type: sudo kextcache -system-caches
9 - then press the return key
10 - close the Terminal app
I then shut down my computer, started it up, let it fully boot, shut it down a second time, then when I restarted everything was back to normal!!!
Here is the actual excerpt I used to fix the slowness - don't ask me how it works, cuz I am a novice:
From mad84max and user gbvin:
Go to the Terminal App
"It seems that somehow the ownership of my root directory (/) wasn't assigned to the root account anymore, but to myself instead. This made the kernel prelinking fail since it requires that root is the owner. This is how you solve this after launching the Terminal app:
terminal commands
sudo chown root:admin /
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
sudo kextcache -system-caches
You'll have to enter your password after the first command."
Hope this will help you since it was really frustrating for me.

I had slowness on my 3G after upgrading to iOS 4, but I found a simple fix here:
http://www.davekawalec.com/2010/07/3-steps-to-fix-iphone-3g-slowness-after-ios4- upgrade/
It's basically the same steps you recommend, but then after a reboot, you can turn all of the search functions back on. I haven't had a performance problem since I did this.

My fix for slow boot after Leopard Upgrade

I was having the same issue as a lot of others in posts about extremely slow boot up times after upgrading from Tiger to Leopard. I spent a lot of time on the phone with Apple Support but in the end I stumbled across a fix for my situation.
After power up and getting to the login screen (about 5-6 seconds), it would take about 3 minutes to fully populate the desktop after entering my password. Most of that time just sitting at the login screen. Extremely painful.
My MacBook connects to a Windows Active Directory network. I was able to fix my slowness by disabling the Active Directory service. I was concerned at first but my bound volumes still work. I don't use a lot of AD services from my Mac so I at this point I have not found any issue with this fix.
To disable, go to Directory Utility, select services and if you have Active Directory enabled, disable it.
My boot time increased from 3 minutes to less than 15 seconds. Better than Tiger.
Tech Support is aware of this issue and has reported it the OS team for a fix.

Hi-
Do you have a Tiger volume to test your machine with?
Do you still have video in Tiger?
If you don't have a Tiger volume to test on, I would consider such as an important troubleshooting step
So now I am wondering if it is the PCI slot that suddenly stopped working after the OS upgrade. Does anyone know if this is a documented issue and if there is a fix for it?
There are no issues with the AGP slot in relation to an OS version.

Fix for slow opening files... soon?

We have several stations set up globally in various offices using Photoshop CS...
Image files, no matter how small the file is... even a single small JPG takes a good 10-15 seconds to open (win xp) and we frequently need to work with hundreds of images. This seems to be a major problem and from what I find on Google, not uncommon...
I finally ran into this temporary 'fix' in the archives which involves setting up a LOCAL printer/driver as a DEFAULT...
While that DID alleviate that problem, I can't see that adobe is just letting this be THE fix for the problem... I've done updates to our CS3 products and have a difficult time believing that there is no permanent fix for this yet.
It seems unlike adobe to expect so many clients to have to experience this problem, spending hours or days trying to figure out why their systems have slowed down and asking themselves questions mostly unrelated to the problem, such as 'did i run out of swap space on my drive?', 'how are my history/cache settings?', 'is there some network drive causing the problem?', 'Is there some spyware slowing my box?', etc...
And on top of that having to notify all the offices... 'Okay guys, if you use photoshop you need to do this, this, and that... temporarily'
Please tell me there is a permanent fix soon...

I don't know which versions of photoshop need to check/contact the network printer...
For volumes of image processing via the batch commands I often need to use our old Photoshop 6 which, even with the network (a fairly large corporate network) the files open up almost instantly... every time... unless they're huge print resolution images...
On the same network for such a task (batching hundreds of images) PS CS3 is unuseable to us unless we implement the local printer 'fix'... and even so, there is more of a delay than with our old photoshop...
And why does it need to contact the printer for each file that is opened? For the first one, sure... check it, done... I'm not printing dammit, just opening files.
If it needs printer information the local OS already has drivers loaded up, couldn't it check those? It shouldn't have to look for other network devices on there unless it's using them... but I'm no tech... so there must be a reason that it simply MUST do it...
And even so... why is this 'fix' so damn hard to find on the net? Tons of people with issues and a lone, difficult-to-find blurb as an obscure fix...?

Fix for Slow Transfers on Vision

Hello all. I thought I'd just like to give a heads up on a fix I found for the Creative Zen Vision:M and its slow transfer problems. All you have to do is download Windows Media Player . This seems to fix any sort of firmware issue between the player and the computer.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/download/download.aspx
Not only will this fix the transfer rate for indiviual songs, but also large quantities. And on top of that, this version of Windows Media Player is outstandingly awesome.
Enjoy!

A number of people reported that Safari was running
very slow for them on Windows. I was someone who was
also seeing the same behavior. Web pages that would
open up in 2 seconds under IE7 could take literally
minutes to fully draw in Safari.
Your mileage may vary, but this really did work for
me. Nothing else I had tried (clearing the cache,
re-installing, etc.) made a difference...but this
did. Not sure why it's not affecting everyone, but
this doesn't seem to have any negative side effects.
IE7 is still working fine for me with the
"Automatically Detect" box unchecked.
Please, report this bug to Radar: http://bugreport.apple.com It's important to notice Apple developers about this issue

Fix for some safari unexpected quits

Hello all, Recently Safari on my computer has been quitting for no reason what so ever, I thought i had tried everything, and almost reinstalled OSX then I stumbled onto the fix, if safari is crashing alot for you try this, it might fix it.
1. Go to a webpage that has alot of flash content http://www.macromedia.com/ works well If safari crashes when it loads the page this might fix your problem
2. Go to Macintosh HD then Library then Internet Plug-Ins
3. Delete the Flash Player Enabler.plugin, Flash Player.plugin, and flashplayer.xpt
4. Open Firefox, (download it if you do not have it at http://www.getfirefox.com/)
5. go to macromedia.com again, Firefox should tell you you need to download plugins and ask you if you want to do so, say yes or click ok or whatever and let Firefox install flash for you.
Now go back to Safari and everything should work perfectly, I dont know why this works, but something about the macromedia flash installer messes up Safari.
I hope this helps, I posted this because I know how obscure this seems, and most people would wind up reinstalling OS X, and then having a bad experience, and blaming it on the OS (like I almost did)
,Macattack

No, I'm on 10.4.5 (gotta change that) I did what the above post reccommended to no avail. Interestingly, Safari asked if I wanted to save the changes I made. Thing is, I didn't make any changes! (Could have been due to the Flash re-load) I did discover that my preferences had been changed, and that's why my keychains didn't work the way they have been. (Waiting to load is the first thing I checked) Anyway, this is the first time that I started Safari since those changes, so maybe that is the fix.
BTW, the trouble is that Safari quits unexpectedly and often. I noticed that this is often when I am loading Flash content. (which loads VERY slow on my fast connection) Now, as I mentioned above, it usually happens as I'm scrolling fast on a different page (fully loaded or not). I'm not sure if it happens when I'm not doing this, but this is how I've been getting it to fail on me to test it. I know, it's like the old joke: "Doc, it hurts when I do this!" "So, don't do that."

Is there a fix for slow wifi speed on U310?

I bought early july a IdeaPad U310 in Texas, and then I moved to Belgium to study. The wifi speed was awefullt slow. So having read the forums, i rang the support in Belgium, and after long discussion, i sent the laptop for repair. Service was fine, but extremely slow, with no information what so ever of where the pc was, if it was received for reparation... anyway, three weeks after, so that today. i received it back and, according to the intervention report, the wireless controler was replaced. The thing is, the problem ofthe U310 is not a defectuous part, it is something more fundamental. I tested the PC in various speed test website.
I have three laptop, a Lenovo W520, a HP Mini 110, and the IdeaPad U310.
I used speedtest.net and brosdbandspeedchecker.co.uk
the result are
Lenovo W520: Download: 19.64 Mbps Upload: 1.99 Mbps
HP Mini 110: Download:15.72 Mbps Upload: 1.28 Mbps
IdeaPad U310: Download 4.75 Mbps Upload:2.1 Mbps.
Now, the speed on U310 is not that catastrophic (not like the 0.3 Mbps I was getting) but still not great and rather much slower than the two other machines, and not fast enough to watch a movie in streaming, it pauses all the time.
So what should i do? Send it again?
But is there a fix to the problem? Because keeping changing the wifi controller as they did did not fix the PC. The MEDION Repair center, which is in charge to repair Lenovo for northern europe (i guess) stated as well that the test "#winstress#" as been done. What is it? Yes the wifi works, but way too slow.
Thanks for advice.

MrTSX wrote:
Called up Lenovo Support and the tech logged into my laptop and showed me how to increase the wireless power settings. Changed it from low to high. Now downloading at 36Mbps to 45Mbps.
Right click on Intel Centrino Wirless-N 2200 click on properties
click advanced
click on Transit Power and changed the value to 5. Highest
Roaming Aggressiveness change value to Highest
Now downloading at 36Mbps to 45Mbps. FIXED
this has already been shown to have no effect.
In fact changing the pwoer setting on the N-2200 doesn'tt change the amount of power it gets.

Fix for SLOW Itunes Downloads

First I want to say for the last four years I have been very satisfied with Apple. Until IOS 6 Crashed thier entire system.
In the last four years I have purchased 2 Mac Pros, 9 Mac Minis, 12 Ipads, 6 Iphones, and 4 Ipods.
First of all any compentent person knows when it is the ISP provider and when it is not, anyone can run a speed test.
Here is my FIX.
1. Purchase PC Laptop
2. Download and install Itunes.
3. Rent Movie
4. Enjoy that Movie the same evening.
Apple FIX THE PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

update: its no longer working. even if no security at all or on Wifi B, slow as ****. sometimes only 9kbps. this is insane

Possible fix for slow/sluggish keyboard when texting(SMS)

I've had a problem with the sluggish keyboard when texting for a while now, but I believe I've found a solution. For me this solution speeds up the keyboard dramatically immediately after performing it.
1. Open SMS app and start to type a text message
2. Notice the slow keyboard
3. Press home button.
4. Open Safari
5. Go to a simple web page (I use Google's homepage) and let the page load completely.
6. Close all other browser windows. (Not sure if this is absolutely necessary, but it doesn't hurt)
7. Press home button.
8. Open SMS and continue typing your text. Your keyboard should be fast.
To Apple: I'm not sure why this works for me, or if it works for anyone else, but it seems to be a problem with an unloaded page in Safari. When a page is loaded or forcibly stopped (by pressing 'x') the problem goes away.
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If you literally "checked" them, meaning the checkboxes, that only affects their visibility. To remove them, select one and then click on the "minus" part of the "plus minus" at lower left.
Doug

Here's a fix for slow iPhoto 5.0.4 (burst the beachball!)

Hi all,
I've been scanning my back catalogue of photos from about the end of last year. I've never really used iPhoto before, so have no previous with earlier versions. Without a digital camera, I'm forced to use an HP scanner. Owing to the fact that the Cube only has USB 1, this is already not the fastest job in the world, but patience is on my side.
Despite the fact that I've chosen to put the iPhoto library on my ext HDD, I'm faced with one of the infuriating aspects of the HP scanning application, which is its need to put all scanned input into a folder within /home/documents on my Cube HDD. I only discovered this when I poked around after a system warning that my startup drive was nearly full.
I think this critical point caused a few permissions conflicts, because ever since, iPhoto has been screwing (that's less harsh here in the UK) my Mac. I got all the symptoms others have been complaining about with regard to slow system performance after having used iPhoto at all. This was true when switching between applications, as well as using applications after having used iPhoto, not to mention during the use of iPhoto itself. The only way to correct this degradation was with a restart, which itself would take forever, because of the slow system performance.
I had a fairly small library.iPhoto file, so was not assured that the bloat was the same as others had with certain cameras. In looking through the posts, however, I found one which suggested trashing iPhoto 5.0.4 and reinstalling version 5.0. The respondent stated that he/she was at the point of trying something 'as drastic as that'.
So I got to thinking: if the application iPhoto has caused system-wide damage, then that's the damage to treat. I did an archive and reinstall of OSX and the difference is phenomenal. So many have reported massive amounts of RAM in use, as well as GIGABYTES of swap memory. Have we forgotten the background of the Mac as a graphic artist's tool of choice?
I'm here to tell you that a properly seated operating system will run iPhoto quite happily with a gig of RAM, and whilst a 450Mhz processor won't put the fear of god into many in this day and age, it's perfectly adequate for image manipulation in iPhoto.
If you'd asked me this a week ago, I would have concurred that I obviously needed to upgrade to a G5 twin 1.8 or some such animal, but having noticed colleagues in these forums with systems that should eat this kind of workload, I'm at the conclusion (like I'm an expert) that a system reinstall should be at the beginning of the troubleshooting with such huge differences between expected and actual performance.
Go on, give it a try. What's to lose, apart from half an hour installing OSX?
Best of luck,
Matt
G4 Cube 1GB RAM/G3 iBook 640MB RAM; AirPort Express/G3 iMac Rev B 640MB RAM/iPod Mac OS X (10.4.4) iMac OSX 10.2.8

Never should have been a question - sorry.

Fix for slow Apple TV sync or stream (port 3689 alert)

If you use Intego VirusBarrier X6, syncing or streaming to your Apple TV may be extremely slow or stop altogether. Your network connection may also be broken. The same may also be true with other virus protection or internet security software.
In many cases, you may receive an alert message saying: Check that any firewall software running on this computer has been set to allow communication on port 3689.
Here is how to modify your VirusBarrier Firewall to open port 3689. If you use other security products, you will need to check with the vendor for specific instructions.
1) In VirusBarrier X6, go to the Firewall section and set the Mode to Advanced.
2) Click the "+ icon" at the bottom left of the window. This will add a new "untitled settings" entry to the list on the left of the window.
3) Right click or control-click in the rules window (the blue and white striped area of the window). Choose "Insert Standard Set" and select whatever setting you were using before (for example: Client Only, Client Local Server, which is the default setting). This will insert the standard rules for that set.
4) Now you must create a new rule for the Apple TV. Click the + button (bottom left). The new rule window will appear.
-- You can name it anything you like, but something that tells you what the rule is for would be recommended. For example: Apple TV.
-- Set the source as "Local Network", the destination should already by "My Mac".
-- The 'Service' option is where you assign what service this rule applies to. However, there will not be an Apple TV option in the list. You must create a new service. Click the '+ sign' next to the services drop down menu. A "new service" window will appear. Name the service something appropriate for it's function (for example: Open port 3689), set the Protocol to TCP, click Single Port, and enter 3689 for the Port.
-- Leave the Interface set to Any, and make sure Allow is enabled.
-- Allow should be enabled, then click OK.
5) This new service you just created will now be at the bottom of the Rules list of your new "untitled settings". You MUST drag it to the top of the list (making it rule number 01).
6) Click the button next to your new "untitled settings" to activate them. Apple TV should now be able to sync (or stream) without problem.
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I am having the same problem since upgrading to ATV 2.3 and iTunes 8.0.2.20 for a PC. Since people are having this issue with Mac iTunes, my guess is that it is ATV 2.x that's the problem. Everything stopped syncing as far as I could tell. Apple Support was totally unhelpful. Wanted me to pay for extended care even since I bought my ATV last year. Told me it was "buyer beware" with respect to updates, and that my only recourse was to role back to the factory default (version 1.1) - that is unless I wanted to pay for support. So I asked her if she'd heard of the problem, and she said no. Excuse me? What would I be paying for then? Why can't this company support the piece of junk software they just released??? They are shooting themselves in the foot because now that I've rolled back to 1.1, I can't buy the new content they're pushing from the iTunes store. I've never been this put off by a company and the false advertising that "it just works."
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