Safari 5.1 incomplete page loads

Safari 5.1 doesn't load pages completely. I get the option to cancel or force a reload. Neither works properly. I'm left with a spinning beachball. Pushed off onto Firefox for now. Any help much appreciated.

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Incomplete page loads with Safari

Let me preface by saying that I am accessing the internet through Earthlink Satellite and I know there is a chance that my problems relate to that, but being that it takes me about seven-and-a-half months of hold time to reach a support person, I'm hoping that one of you may have insights in the event that this is a Safari problem.
I'm using MacBookPro (OSX 10.4.9) with Safari and I am geting many errors when loading complicated sites such as USA Today, MSNBC and MLB.com. I either get question marks or no image at all and Quicktime related images come up with the QT logo with a question mark. I've found that if I clear my Cache and delete all previous cookies, I can get nearly error free loads (although Quicktime stuff still comes up with question marks). But the problem returns soon after the purging.
If anyone has ideas regarding these problems I would be very grateful for help.

Hi
For the Quicktime ?, go to System Preferences>Quicktime>Advanced>Mime Settings>Miscellaneous - uncheck "flash media". Restart Safari
Earthlink:
Go to your System Preferences>Network.
- Location - set up a personal location by clicking on the drop down menu and selecting "add a location". Use a name familiar to you. Once established, select "apply".
- Next, click on the "Show" drop down menu and select Network Port Configurations. Depending on whether you use a direct connection into the computer, or wirelss, only Ethernet or Airport, respectively ought to be checked. Move it to the top of the list (you can drag it). Select "apply".
- Back to the "Show" menu, select either "Ethernet" or "Airport" (whichever applies). Click on the TCP panel. There, enter 207.69.188.171 and 207.69.188.172 (separate lines) in the DNS servers box and select "apply". These are Earthlink Codes as cited in this related article.
Select Apply.
Lastly, in the Finder, go to your Utilities folder and select "Terminal". Once the screen is open enter lookupd -flushcache and press return. This clears out the DNS cache. Once done, quit Terminal.
Creating a personal location, plus adding the DNS codes ought to improve the page loads.
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Safari Stalls on SOME pages - loading ads?

I moved an Intel Mini from an Airport network to an ethernet connection on the same network. Safari now has issues loading SOME but not all web pages. One page with a problem is www.macrumors.com - the content on the page loads but Safari stalls, apparently trying to load all the ads.
The stall makes it impossible to use Safari, and needs to be "force quit".
Other ethernet-connected Macs have no issues.
I've done the usual troubleshooting; DNS, disabling DNS prefetching, etc. but nothing seems to resolve the issue.

I have tried all of these solutions and find that at times nothing resolves the problem with Safari stalling except for switching from wi-fi to another connection method.   This is happening on different networks(routers) and is resolved if I disable wi-fi and connect via another means.    My 6 year old OS-X on a 11 yr. MacBook pro never has any issues and is ALWAYS 3 times faster than the new Safari runs on a much more powerful machine running on the same wi-fi network.   Wish I could switch back to the older Safari.
Here is my story:
When Yosemite came out I installed it (and have applied all available patches) on my MacBook Pro,MacBook Air and 2 IPhones and now having problem with Safari stalling at 25% load progress point in webpage download at a fairly high frequency.    YOSEMITE REALLY ***** -- need to now figure out how to the MAVERICKS installed.
Meanwhile, I have another MacBook Pro - 11 Yr. old and 6 yr. old Safari and it is rock solid reliable and on average it's 3 times faster in loading (when compared to YOSEMITE when it's working that is).      As a result,   I had to download anothe r browser and as you would expect, I am not having these problems with anothe r browser.
Avoid YOSEMITE is you care an ounce about have a reliable Safari browser.
Thanks for wasting my time Apple -- now I got the hours/hours of trying to reload 4 devices with MAVERICKS.
I believe the issue has to do with using Safari via a Wi-Fi connection as when I turn on Wi-Fi on the Iphone's the problem seems to be resolved.     Unfortunately it's not an easy option to disable Wi-Fi on the MacBook Pro's/Air as it wouldn't be much fun to connect up with an ethernet cable.    It's not the Wi-Fi connection itself as it happens on all Routers in multiple locations and the 11 yr. old MB running 6 yr old Safari doesn't have the same problem.

Firefox 3.6.6 Mac Tabs Unresponsive & Incomplete Page Loads

Ever since the 3.6.6 upgrade for Mac, running under OSX 10.6.4, my tabs load, but then I cannot select any of the "buried" tabs the mouse. The top tab "page load thermometer" at the bottom left of the status bar never completes to the point where it says "Done," despite the page being fully loaded and active. (The bar remains, showing about a 98% load....)
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== I upgraded to FF 3.6.6 Mac

This must be the crappiest upgrade to Firefox. It's totally worthless. I'm currently now using Safari because of it because I don't want to bother with reloading a previous version of Firefox.

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Discovered a very bizarre behavior in Safari 5.1 (OSX 10.6.8) in which, after logging in to a secure internet banking site, the subsequent page loads into the browser (address bar updates new url and source code reflects new page), but the screen fails to redraw the new page. The bizarre thing is that the previous page, which is still visible, is not functional, the links and navigation for the new page are, however. So I can continue navigating through the site blindly by finding links with the mouse hover state, all while the original log in screen still appears in the window. Cannot reproduce this on any other browsers, including Safari 5.0.6
Anyone have any insights or experience with this kind of behavior?

Write down the password to the banking site. Enable guest logins and log in as Guest. Launch Safari and test. Same problem? After testing, log out of the guest account and disable it if you wish.
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Internet Browsing Very, Very Slow/Incomplete Page Loads

_*The Computers:*_
MacPro 2008 dual quad core and MacBookPro 2.66 mid 2009 both running OS 10.5.8.
_*The Problem:*_
The Mac Pro which is hard wired is very very slow and many times will time out before it can load a page or will only load part of the page (lots of little boxes with question marks in them or page loads part of the way and stops)and the wheel just keeps spinning. Sometimes I can hit the x and reload and it will work just fine. Sometimes, this does not help. The MacBook Pro which is wireless behaves the same way.
_*The Internet Set Up:*_
DSL line runs from wall to Surewest (ISP) router, then out to a 5 port Dlink switch. From the switch I run straight into the Mac Pro and to the Airport Express. The Airport Express is about 2.5 years old. It runs b/g while the MacBook Pro has draft N capability. I noticed that since I replaced my older MacBook Pro which was b/g, the new one shows a much stronger signal, which is why I can't understand why its slower.
_*The Testing:*_
I don't think its my ISP because when I run speedtest.net, I get what I always get, 3mb/s download and I have run that test many, many times over the last few days. The only change has been in the ping. It used to be consistently 16-17 ms and now it varies going as high as 24-26 ms. I have no clue if that is indicative of a problem. Data downloads, including iTunes work just fine.
_*Potential Culprit:*_
The only other change was that this weekend, I downloaded xmarks (formerly foxmarks) to unify and coordinate my bookmarks across both computers. I have since run the xmarks uninstaller on both machines and deleted the online account. However, it has not made any difference.
_*Attempted Solutions:*_
I already rebooted the Airport Express and changed the channel from auto to a higher number. No effect.
_*Other Possible Solutions:*_
I will reboot the ISP modem tonight.
I am also considering uninstalling and reinstalling Safari with the thought that xmarks somehow screwed it up, but I also had the problem in Firefox in which I did not install xmarks. If I pull the Safari bookmark.plst file before I uninstall Safari, I should be able to just drop it in to the fresh install and keep my bookmarks.
Someone suggested that I switch to Open DNS. This is beyond my area of expertise so to speak, so I am a little afraid to mess with it. If one of you wouldn't mind giving me a more complete explanation and instructions, I would appreciate it.
Any other thoughts, advice or things to try? Thanks for the assistance.

Greetings,
Deleting and then reinstalling Safari is not a solution, so I would strongly advise against it. It's very rare that the application you're having a problem with using is the actual problem; rather, it's something the program relies on that is causing the problem. Instead, try this:
Quit Safari if it's running and open System Preferences>Network>Advanced.
In the DNS Server window, make sure IPv6 is turned off, and enter these two DNS servers to replace the ones you currently have (if any):
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
click Apply Now and quit System Preferences.
Next, do these things in order:
1. Go to Home/Library/Cookies and delete the Cookies.plist file.
2. Go to Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari and delete the contents of that folder.
3. Go to Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Web Page Previews and delete the contents of that folder.
4. If you don't want to use the Top Sites feature, open Terminal and paste in this command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2
5. Go to Home/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari and delete the contents of that folder.
6. Go to Home/Library/Caches/Safari and delete the contents of that folder.
7. Go to Home/Library/Safari and delete these files (if you have them):
Downloads.plist
History.plist
Form Values
LastSession.plist
WebpageIcons.db
Then Repair Disk Permisions, restart Safari and see if the speed is improved.

What is causing FF6.02 to have VERY slow and incomplete page loads

Every since I've upgraded to FF 5 [now running 6.02] on Win7, the browser loads extremely slowly on ALL pages and often [most of the time] just hangs and doesn't display all images. I can start Chrome, copy and paste the URL and have the full page completely loaded while FF is still incomplete.

Every since I've upgraded to FF 5 [now running 6.02] on Win7, the browser loads extremely slowly on ALL pages and often [most of the time] just hangs and doesn't display all images. I can start Chrome, copy and paste the URL and have the full page completely loaded while FF is still incomplete.

Safari 2.0.3 - Pages load with no images or some images

Hi
I just bought a new iMac Intel. It comes with safari 2.0.3
Any page on the web loads without the images. In place of the image is a ? icon.
If I hit the reload button a few times, the images load up. Sometimes even after a dew reloads, some images are still not loaded.
Any idea why this is happening?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

I have not changed any of the Quicktime settings yet.
Since posting I have installed Firefox. Firefox loads the page www.apple.com flawlessly.
If you would like me to check any of the quicktime settings, can you give me more details on how to do this?
Thanks for your advice

Safari 6.0.1 page loading slow or not at all

Friends,
I have scoured the message boards of many self help communities and cannot find a great deal to resolve my question and that of many others - Safari taking ages to load a page or not at all - having to hit reload several times to get the page to load. I have tried Firefox and Chrome with no problems on the same web pages. This has only started in the last week or so. I am on OS 10.8.2. I have treid the following solutions which do not work for me:
Resetting Safari
Manually and with software dumping of Safari and Java caches
Disabling all Extensions
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Removing Safari's folder to create a complete new one in ~Library
Changing DNS
Turning off Prefetch DNS
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Select  ▹ System Preferences ▹ Network. If the Network preference pane is locked, click the lock icon in the lower left corner and enter your password to unlock it. Then click the Advanced button and select the Hardware tab. Select Configure: Manually and MTU: Custom. Enter an MTU value of 1280. Click OK and then Apply. Test.
You must apply the change before it takes effect.
If the issue is resolved, experiment with higher MTU values until you find the highest one that works. The higher the MTU, the better the network interface will perform.
If changing the MTU has no effect, restore the Configure setting to Automatically.

Safari 4.0.2 page loading takes 3 minutes

I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5.8 and Safari 4.0.2 can't load any page in less than 3 minutes. In addition, I get the message "You are not connected to Internet" on about 1 out 5 sites I try to open.

Greetings,
While your frustration is understandable, your problem isn't caused by Safari 4. But you haven't given much information to work with, including who your ISP is, what sites you're having problems with, or eve what you've tried to resolve the problem, if anything. So, try this:
1. Quit Safari.
2. Go to Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari and delete the contents of that folder.
3. Go to Home/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari and delete the contents of that folder.
4. Go to Home/Library/Caches/Safari and delete the contents of that folder.
5. Go to Home/Library/Safari and delete these files (if you have them):
Downloads.plist
History.plist
Form Values
LastSession.plist
WebpageIcons.db
Also, open System Preferences>Network, go to the tab where you enter the DNS Servers and enter these two instead of those from your ISP:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
click Apply Now, quit System Preferences and then use Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities) to Repair Disk Permissions; then restart Safari and see if the speed is improved.

Safari extremely slow and pages load with errors

Not sure if this is related to other Safari posts, but when I try to load a page from many sites, including this one, the speed is extremely slow and there are invariably errors reported on the bottom status bar. I'm on a new Mac Pro, and I haven't added any add-ons to Safari or changed system settings. My internet connection is DSL on ethernet, and there are no problems with email or on my old G4 using Explorer 5.1. At this point G4's Explorer is light years faster than Safari on this machine. I'm going to try Mozilla Firefox, but is there any hope for Safari?
Thanks,
Peggy

Hi Peggy
Welcome to Apple Discussions
Try this to speed up Safari.
First, make sure you are not using Rosetta. Go to Safari's info panel (Application folder>Safari.app>Single click>Apple Key I). If Rosetta is selected, uncheck it.
Network Connection
Go to the System Preferences>Network panel
- Location - set up a personal location by clicking on the drop down menu and selecting "add a location". Use a name familiar to you. Once established, select "apply".
- Next, click on the "Show" drop down menu and select Network Port Configurations. Only Ethernet ought to be checked. Move it to the top of the list (you can drag it). Select "apply".
- Back to the "Show" menu, depending on your connection select "Ethernet". Click on the TCP panel. There, enter 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 (separate lines) in the DNS servers box and select "apply".
Creating a personal location, plus adding the DNS codes seems to speed things up. Otherwise, the "automatic" function has a tendency to "search" for available locations.
In the Finder, go to your Utilities folder and select "Terminal". Once the screen is open enter lookupd -flushcache and press return. This clears out the DNS cache. Once done, quit Terminal.
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Safari "Pauses" During Web Page Load

This is a tough one. I'm having a problem where Safari will partially load a page, any page, then pause for up to 30 seconds, and either load the rest of the page or show "?" in a bunch of places and load the page incorrectly. I can't find anything wrong with my internet connection, router, or anything. ISP insists it's a software issue. This issue does not manifest in Camino or Firefox. Installed Safari 4 Beta and it did not fix the issue. Uninstalled Safari 4 and it did not fix the issue. Any ideas?

I have some more information.
I did a trace on my network to see if there are any problems. I traced to http://www.msnbc.com. Everything seems normal until hop 15 or 16. That is where I get the following:
15 ten3-4.cpk-76c-1b.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.34.118) 116.777 ms 150.908 ms 200.162 ms
16 10.22.0.6 (10.22.0.6) 109.696 ms 109.311 ms 109.635 ms
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29 * * 10.22.0.6 (10.22.0.6) 110.254 ms !X
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32 10.22.0.6 (10.22.0.6) 110.023 ms !X * *
33 * 10.22.0.6 (10.22.0.6) 110.237 ms !X *
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46 * 10.22.0.2 (10.22.0.2) 110.650 ms !X *
47 * * 10.22.0.2 (10.22.0.2) 113.808 ms !X
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51 * * 10.22.0.2 (10.22.0.2) 110.234 ms !X
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58 * 10.22.0.6 (10.22.0.6) 109.707 ms !X *
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60 * * 10.22.0.6 (10.22.0.6) 109.721 ms !X
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63 10.22.0.2 (10.22.0.2) 110.117 ms !X *
Can anyone decipher this for me?

Safari crashing during youtube page load

I recently upgraded to Safari 4.0.5. I am using OS X 10.4.11. Safari now crashes as youtube.com is loading. I had no trouble with youtube before the upgrade. What can I do?

I have some more information.
I did a trace on my network to see if there are any problems. I traced to http://www.msnbc.com. Everything seems normal until hop 15 or 16. That is where I get the following:
15 ten3-4.cpk-76c-1b.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.34.118) 116.777 ms 150.908 ms 200.162 ms
16 10.22.0.6 (10.22.0.6) 109.696 ms 109.311 ms 109.635 ms
17 * * *
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19 * * *
20 * * *
21 * * *
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23 * * *
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25 * * *
26 * * *
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28 * * *
29 * * 10.22.0.6 (10.22.0.6) 110.254 ms !X
30 * * *
31 * * *
32 10.22.0.6 (10.22.0.6) 110.023 ms !X * *
33 * 10.22.0.6 (10.22.0.6) 110.237 ms !X *
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46 * 10.22.0.2 (10.22.0.2) 110.650 ms !X *
47 * * 10.22.0.2 (10.22.0.2) 113.808 ms !X
48 * * *
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50 * * *
51 * * 10.22.0.2 (10.22.0.2) 110.234 ms !X
52 * * *
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57 * * *
58 * 10.22.0.6 (10.22.0.6) 109.707 ms !X *
59 * * *
60 * * 10.22.0.6 (10.22.0.6) 109.721 ms !X
61 * * *
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63 10.22.0.2 (10.22.0.2) 110.117 ms !X *
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Is there a way to go in to Safari and set the page loading delay to a shorter time ?

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.
Start up Safari again, and things should have improved.
If not, MacFixit have published a very detailed (very!) article on speeding up a slow Safari, here:
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Hello.
I have problem in Safari. During web-page loading on places, there images placed i see black boxes. It looks like when image download in progress Safari displays black background of it. I noticed that it happens only with progressive JPEGs (this type of JPEG loads progressively from low-res image to full-res, so you firstly see low-res image, after a while a mid-res and when image 100% loads you will see full-res image). It happens all over internet sites, for example, right image on site below during loading have black background:
http://bbshowcase.org/progressive/
In any of other browsers images loads normally.
I found some topics in the internet about this issue, but no solution.
I currently use Safari v7.0.3 (9537.75.14) on Mac OS X 10.9.3 (Maverics).
I tested on another Mac with Safari 6 and found same issue.
If anyone can solve this, please, share the solution.

No problem with those images loading here.
You're running 7.0.3? Is there some reason you have not updated to 7.0.4?
If not, click Software Update from your Apple  drop down menu or open the App Store. Select Updates from the menu top of that window.
Updating Safari may make a difference.
And try troubleshooting Safari extensions and plug-ins.
From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that helped, turn one extension on then quit and relaunch Safari to test until you find the incompatible extension then click uninstall.
If it's not an extensions issue, try troubleshooting third party plug-ins.
Back to Safari > Preferences. This time select the Security tab. Deselect: Allow all other plug-ins. Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that made a difference, instructions for troubleshooting plugins here.

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