Not happy with new Safari!! Browser Dancing.

Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 1:53 pm

Ever since I updated Safari to 5.0 it has been hanging. It is slower than the older one for many sites that used to load just fine. I visit the same dozen sites every day and have been for years, so the load speeds are well known to me. I went to Firefox when Safari got slow, and I came back to Safari from Firefox when Firefox got too slow. Is it time for Chrome?

Now I wonder if there is music for this dance...

Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 5:17 pm

See if 10.6.4 helps. I'v also found it off

Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:01 pm

Seems to be zippyer

Member Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 170 Location: Australia

I love Safari. I HATE Safari 5. I too cannot get Safari to work and am now on Chrome. Chrome is ok. It's fast etc but I liked Safari. I've tried going to Safari 4 but it doesn't work. I deleted Safari and used Time Machine to go back and Safari now says it's version 4 BUT it must still have Safari hooks there somewhere because it is still broken just like 5. What gives?

Why Apple Why??

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:53 am

I too have experienced poor performance with 5. Tried it on a MacPro and a G5. Both were slow but the G5 was downright crawling.

Haven't done the 10.6.4. Maybe I'll let some more folk guinea this one out. Evil or Very Mad

Member Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 170 Location: Australia

Did the 10.6.4. Everything seems the same. It didn't fix Safari.

I'm just wondering why Safari works for some and not for others. I've done everything I can think of to get it working. AAARRRGGHH!!!

Level 3 Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 4303 Location: Home

5works fine for me. Have you installed anything to safari that may be interfering?

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:05 am

Adblocker?

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:32 pm

Safari 5 seems to be working fine on my G4 and G5. Have yet to update the MBP and my wife's G5 iMac.

Suggest installing 10.6.4 Combo, the reinstall Safari 5, as applicable.

Level 3 Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 4303 Location: Home

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3230

Member Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 170 Location: Australia

Thanks for the Apple link but still no luck for me. Hope it helps you LT. I have no plugins.
I'm reinstalling Safari again.

Member Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 170 Location: Australia

Ok reinstalled Safari and still no joy. So I figured it might be a DNS problem with my ISP since Safari 5 now uses DNS prefetching. I used the Google Public DNS and it worked a treat. It's not as zippy as Chrome but it's a hell of a lot quicker and no hangups.

Here is a link Lt_Bird to show how to change your DNS to Googles.

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:53 am

Thanks everybody.
I tried the update for the OS, reinstalled Safari and no improvement. Is there a downside to the Google DNS change?

So far, Chrome has the nod for speed and may get the default browser status...

Nice botch, Apple.

Member Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 170 Location: Australia

Yeah they dropped the ball here. Loving how the new iTunes update puts all my eyeTV recordings into movies instead of TV Shows too. I guess they are too busy making iPads these days.

Sent from my iPad

Level 3 Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 4303 Location: Home

Lt_bird wrote:

Thanks everybody.
I tried the update for the OS, reinstalled Safari and no improvement. Is there a downside to the Google DNS change?

So far, Chrome has the nod for speed and may get the default browser status...

Nice botch, Apple.

There is no down side to the DNS change.

Member Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 170 Location: Denmark

After updating to Safari 5, I had a lot of flash crashing. Browsing was also considerable slower, but after system update 10.6.4 things went back to normal - or maybe a bit faster. And no crashing so far...

Moon

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:31 pm

I've found Safari 5 to be slower on every mac. Uninstalled all plugins in both Safari, (well the internet plugins folders), and Firefox (3.6.6). Safari hangs and takes eons to load. Same pages load near instantaneous on Firefox.

Unfortunately same results across three Macs on both Leopard and Snow Leopard and PPC and Intel architecture.

Still haven't figured the issue. FYI, even my 2wire router/modem management page loads twice as fast on Firefox. Baffling.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I am on 10.6.4 and the latest on the Leopard Macs.

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:19 am

I was using Chrome and all was well, then it slowed for my home page. So, now Firefox is winning the speed contest!

Sigh. Options are good. Laughing