Safari 7 really slow in Mavericks, any fixes available?
I noticed Safari 7.0.3 getting really slow. I have a rMBP 15" with 2.6 GHz, 16GB RAM, SSD, yada yada, so I know the HW is up to spec. OS X 10.9.2 (Mavericks)
Also Chrome of Firefox are blazing fast on the same machine. Yet Safari seems ot start, hesitate and then either load a page quickly or take avery long time to load a page. This is true for various/most websites.
I disabled the power save feature for plug ins. Cleared the caches (under develop menu). Also Remove All Website data under privacy settings. None produced any real improvment.
I then found a link that showed to disable DNS prefetching, which seems to make Safari usable again (although still slower than the other browsers).
http://macs.about.com/od/MacTroubleshootingTips/qt/Troubleshooting-Safari-Slow-P age-Loads-Caused-By-Dns-Prefetching.htm
Any other ideas on how to fix Safari?
To be honest this is becoming very sloppy on Apple's part, as not too long ago I had to research here to find a method to speed up browsing in Finder as well. Is Apple becoming Microsoft? (sorry couldn't resist, just getting annoyed that simple items are becoming a hassle on OS X).
I noticed Safari 7.0.3 getting really slow. I have a rMBP 15" with 2.6 GHz, 16GB RAM, SSD, yada yada, so I know the HW is up to spec. OS X 10.9.2 (Mavericks)
Also Chrome of Firefox are blazing fast on the same machine. Yet Safari seems ot start, hesitate and then either load a page quickly or take avery long time to load a page. This is true for various/most websites.
I disabled the power save feature for plug ins. Cleared the caches (under develop menu). Also Remove All Website data under privacy settings. None produced any real improvment.
I then found a link that showed to disable DNS prefetching, which seems to make Safari usable again (although still slower than the other browsers).
http://macs.about.com/od/MacTroubleshootingTips/qt/Troubleshooting-Safari-Slow-P age-Loads-Caused-By-Dns-Prefetching.htm
Any other ideas on how to fix Safari?
To be honest this is becoming very sloppy on Apple's part, as not too long ago I had to research here to find a method to speed up browsing in Finder as well. Is Apple becoming Microsoft? (sorry couldn't resist, just getting annoyed that simple items are becoming a hassle on OS X).
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Start with a visit to: OS X Maintenance - MacAttorney.
Boot into Safe Mode then repair your hard drive and permissions:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions Pre-Lion/Mountain Lion
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
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Repair the Hard Drive - Lion/Mountain Lion
Boot from your Lion Recovery HD. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported, then click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
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Restart your computer normally and see if this has helped any. Next do some maintenance:
Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For situations Disk Utility cannot handle the best third-party utility is Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts was significantly reduced since Tiger. These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard or Lion and should not be installed.
OS X automatically defragments files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems. For more about malware see Macintosh Virus Guide.
I would also recommend downloading a utility such as TinkerTool System, OnyX 2.4.3, or Cocktail 5.1.1 that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old log files and archives, clearing caches, etc.
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Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Data Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. SyncTwoFolders
6. Synk Pro
7. Synk Standard
8. Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at CNet Downloads or MacUpdate.
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Is Safari really slower than Firefox?!
Hello,
I'm trying to migrate to Safari, after years of using Firefox. One unsettling thing I've discovered is that for some reason when I click a bookmark in Safari very often there is a pregnant pause before it takes my to the requested page. Sometimes it freezes up all together & never takes me to the page so I have to retry getting to the page. This never happended with Firefox.
Are my Safari settings somehow off or is Safari really that much slower than Firefox?
Thanks.
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Am I the only one?
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Any other suggestion?
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macworld.com/mac-troubleshooting-what-to-do-when-your -computer-is-too-slow.
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You can use these Links to check which RAM is suitable for your Mac...
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/
Go to http://www.crucial.com
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I state that I use my iMac mainly for making music with Logic 9 Studio (actually v9.1.8).
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Some one can help me solve this problem? With Snow Leopard I didn't had this problems.
I've heard in some other forums that there are are some issues about "graphics retina settings" or something.
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