Safari Very Slow

I'm getting an error on my Mac that says "Safari Can't find the Server". It happens especially in the evening and prevents virtually every web site from loading BUT AT THE SAME TIME, everything works fine using Internet Explorer on my Windows XP laptop which is also connected. All web sites seem to load about 3/4 of the way then everything hangs. My daughter is a heavy My Space user. Could this be causing the problem? I don't get it. Any ideas?

I'm writing from Firefox, v2.0.0.9 as Safari 3 under Leopard is unbearably slow and buggy. Part of this might be the Flash pluggin, but loading up a very simple page takes forever, often freezing the application which requires Activity Monitor to force it closed.
One thought on Safari's problems is the Leopard's new network auto-optimization program (which doesn't seem to work).
Rumors suggest that Safari is not one of the applications to be "tidied up" in the forthcoming version 10.5.1 of Leopard.
Apart from Mail (which runs slow), Safari (which is not stable), boot up time (which takes 30 seconds longer) and Time Machine transferring data at USB 1.1 speed, Leopard is a nice novelty for about 3 weeks.
I'm going back to Tiger until 10.5.2; I am one to the supposed 2million early adopters/beta tester for Apple's Vista OS.
PS: yes, I have did a clean install.
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Quit System Preferences, log out of the regular user account and into the test account, then try using Safari to load pages and videos to see if the problem continues there.
Other things you can try in your regular user account that may help your problem or solve it are this:
1. Go to Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari and delete the contents of that folder.
2. Go to Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Web Page Previews and delete the contents of that folder.
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After upgrading my iPad Air, Safari seems very slow. While surfing the web, pages are slow loading. Pages with pictures keep trying to play catchup as I'm going down the page. I downloaded another browser and I don't have the same problem with that one. I've turned the iPad off and on, cleared the history, etc. to no avail. Anybody have any advice.

Hi gloworm,
If you are having an issue with the Safari web browser on your iPad performing slowly and you have already tried resetting the iPad, I would suggest the next step would be backing up any data you have on the iPad and then setting it up as a new device. See this article -
How to erase your iOS device and then set it up as a new device or restore it from backups
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When I bought my MacBook Pro in 2009 I used Safari for few days then I switched to Firefox, and the reason for that is that downloading any kind of files goes very slow to around 5 KB/s while downloading the same file in any other browser is so fast. Now after the release of Safari 4 I thought this problem could be solved but here again the exact same problem and I really love the new safari except that this problem is really annoying me. By the way browsing is working perfectly fine.
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Sometimes, corruption occurs if this information is incorrectly coded in the software. In that instance, as Safari accesses the preference file, it will crash due to a flaw in the data stream. Another example - updating Safari from one version to the next might trigger corruption if the 3rd party content within the preference file is not compatible with the new version's operation.

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Hello.
I am using safari before OS X 10.8 it's very cool, But now it's very slow, But another browsing working fine (Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera).
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Hello Graphics Area,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
Safari: Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3230
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Mario

Safari very slow to load pages

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I have a Macbook Pro late 2011 with Yosemite 10.10.2 and my Safari is 8.0.3 version.
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Back up all data before making any changes.
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Stop plug-ins to save power
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Quit and relaunch the browser. Any change?
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My macbook has somewhat a lot memory left, but it seem that Safari has gotten slower. When i click on links, or try to use another tab for a link, it runs VERY slow for me, and sometimes wont even load. Is there anything i can do to speed up my browser?

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Is there anyway of reverting to Safari 2.x?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
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BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
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Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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Intel HD Graphics 4000 -
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10 (14A389) - Uptime: 3 days 3:39:6
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APPLE HDD HTS547550A9E384 disk0 : (500.11 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
Macintosh HD (disk1) / [Startup]: 498.88 GB (312.53 GB free)
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MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8
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Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
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Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
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Mac App Store and identified developers
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/System/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] com.globaldelight.driver.BoomDevice (1.1 - SDK 10.9) Support
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[failed] com.apple.AirPlayUIAgent.plist
[failed] com.apple.CallHistoryPluginHelper.plist
[failed] com.apple.CallHistorySyncHelper.plist
[failed] com.apple.cmfsyncagent.plist
[failed] com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication.plist
[failed] com.apple.EscrowSecurityAlert.plist
[failed] com.apple.gamed.plist
[failed] com.apple.lookupd.plist
[failed] com.apple.printtool.agent.plist
[failed] com.apple.SafariNotificationAgent.plist
[failed] com.apple.sbd.plist
[failed] com.apple.scopedbookmarkagent.xpc.plist
[failed] com.apple.security.cloudkeychainproxy.plist
[failed] com.apple.spindump_agent.plist
[failed] com.apple.telephonyutilities.callservicesd.plist
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[failed] com.apple.AssetCacheLocatorService.plist
[failed] com.apple.awdd.plist
[failed] com.apple.corestorage.corestoragehelperd.plist
[failed] com.apple.coresymbolicationd.plist
[failed] com.apple.ctkd.plist
[failed] com.apple.diagnosticd.plist
[failed] com.apple.icloud.findmydeviced.plist
[failed] com.apple.ifdreader.plist
[failed] com.apple.nehelper.plist
[failed] com.apple.nsurlsessiond.plist
[failed] com.apple.periodic-daily.plist
[failed] com.apple.sandboxd.plist
[failed] com.apple.softwareupdate_download_service.plist
[failed] com.apple.systemstats.analysis.plist
[failed] com.apple.tccd.system.plist
[failed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist
[failed] com.apple.xpc.smd.plist
[failed] org.cups.cupsd.plist
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[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[running] com.microsoft.LaunchAgent.SyncServicesAgent.plist Support
User Login Items: ℹ️
iTunesHelper ApplicationHidden (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
SpeechSynthesisServer ApplicationHidden (/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks /SpeechSynthesis.framework/Versions/A/SpeechSynthesisServer.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.0.0.126   - SDK 10.8 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.5 - SDK 10.6 Support
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30514.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 67 Check version
User Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
RealPlayer Plugin: Version: (null) Support
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
AdBlock
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player Support
Flip4Mac WMV Support
Java Support
Time Machine: ℹ️
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      9% syncdefaultsd
      7% IMDPersistenceAgent
      6% WindowServer
      4% coreaudiod
      3% securityd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
434 MB iTunes
249 MB Safari
139 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
69 MB com.apple.iTunesLibraryService
56 MB mds_stores
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
160 MB Free RAM
1.48 GB Active RAM
1.35 GB Inactive RAM
789 MB Wired RAM
39.54 GB Page-ins
2.10 GB Page-outs

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