Safari and cache?
safari 4.04
for an extended time I have had the recurring issue of safari becoming slower and slower... if I am at a site for example espn.. and engaged on a forum... I will encounter problems with posting messages... such as not being able to contact the site... safari just seems to progressively become more twitchy and sluggish over a period of use... my question?
in an attempt to find some level of improving this situation... tried clearing the cache using the safari menu... after this not seeming to have an effect... went to my user library and looked at safari's cache size.. which was around 700-800 mb... what was interesting is after using the safari menu to clear the cache... the size of the cache folder changed very little... so I tried a more extreme approach and just tossed the entire safari cache folder in the trash and deleted... restarted safari and it appeared to be much more responsive... but what I also observed is that within a very short period.. couple of hours... bang up to 600-700 mb of cache...
In the great scheme of things, that is not a very large cache. If your Safari seems slow:
(First, if yours is an Intel Mac, check that Safari is not running in Rosetta, which is enough to slow it to a crawl. If you are running Snow Leopard, run Safari in 32 bit not 64 bit.)
Adding DNS codes to your Network Settings, should gives good results in terms of speed-up as well as added security:
Open System Preferences/Network. Double click on your connection type, or select it in the drop-down menu, and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' add the following two numbers:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
(You can also enter them if you click on Advanced and then DNS)
(An explanation of why that is both safe and a good idea can be read here: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/opendsn-what-is-opendns-why-required-2/2587 /
Open DNS also provides an anti-phishing feature: http://www.opendns.com/solutions/homenetwork/anti-phishing/ )
Wikipedia also has an interesting article about Open DNS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS
Whilst in System Preferences/Network you should also turn off 'IPv6' in your preference pane, as otherwise you may not get the full speed benefit (the DNS resolver will default to making SRV queries). If you want to know what IPv6 is:
This is Apple's guidance on iPv6:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8708.html
Click on Apply Now and close the window.
Restart Safari, and repair permissions.
If that didn't do it, then try this as well:
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 (in Disk Utility).
Start up Safari again, and things should have improved.
More useful information here:
http://guides.macrumors.com/SpeedupSafari
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