Web browsing on a Mac is a complete nightmare

My experience of using OSX for web browsing is a complete nightmare, loads of web pages I visit load really slow even with 1mb broadband, and I always need two browsers open (safari & Camino) because when a web page doesn't load at all in safari, I switch to Camino to get the page to load.
I would say this is a major design/technical fault with macs as most people I know use a computer for web browsing.
What makes it worse it Apples' claims about Safari being a really fast browser when in practice it isn't fast at all and is incompatible with loads of sites.
I've tried loads of browsers OSX including firefox but none of them match the speed and reliability of web browsing on a PC.
I switched to Macs about a year ago and I'm seriously considering going back to PC's because of this which is a shame because the user experience of OSX is superior to Windows.

I see a lot of people reporting slowness issues with Safari lately. The cause of this is unknown and pages load instantly on Mac. The page rendering on an Intel Mac is 2x as fast as on a PowerPC, altough this doesn't explain your issue. It should just work fine.
However you can also try to follow some of the standard routines:
• Make sure all internet configurations in your system are correct, such as IPv6 address and DNS settings.
• Repair your permissions, in case of Safari not being able to write information to certain folders it might slow your browsing experience down.
• Try to reset Safari, this deletes all cash files, history and cookie files. Also information for forms will be lost.
By working trough these steps a lot of users have a good working Safari again. However, some people still don't have it working. This is probably due to some bugs, since 10.4 and some showed up in 10.4.6.
eMac G4   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

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