ok, this is somewhat strange. I guess it kind a makes sinse, but, just hear
me out here, cause then again, not really.
Basicly, I am running Safari V3. It's the latest build. BTW, yes guys, I
finally am starting to get the hang of it. I'm kind a forcing myself to use
it more and more. In any rate: I am noticing that web sites are taking for
ungodly long to load. I mean, so much so, it's almost like I'm on dialup if
not worse.
It's absolutely pathetic!
For instance: blindcooltech.com
took almost five minutes literally speaking just to chime, and load all the
way.
acbradio.org took almost two minutes.
however other sites like say: google, or say, aol.com, or, o, I dono, say,
jfwlite.com, or yahoo.com
Come up almost instantly.
Not quite instantly but maybe within 10 or 15 seconds. It's still slower
than my comfort, but, it's certainly a big improvement from 10 minutes to
load bct, or five mins actually, sorry. Seems like ten though. LOL!
Literalloy speaking? I've not timed it, granted, but I'm assuming, in all
realisticness, and in all literality, it's probably taking five minutes.
Now, here is the odd thing though. It's not my internet connection. I have
two other windows machines. These pages load in less than a tenth of a
second nearly. literally I hit enter to load the page, and bam! It's up.
I got voice over set to automatically interact with html content. I shut
off the toolbar, and the bookmarks bar from the view menu in Safari.
I also went under general in the Safari preferences, and told it to start
with a blank untitled page. I went into security, in the Safari
preferences, and disabled images from loading, and also disabled java for
the time being. Not java script. I still got that enabled, but I disabled
just plain oal Java. I also went in the voice over utility and unchecked
the box to group html content. I was suspicious that it was likely that was
slowing it down as it had to think to process what needed to be grouped.
Well all this did! significantly speed things up, but it's still a little
slow. all other internet based programs though like Fire, Skype, Mail, etc.
work just fine though. no lag at all.
Now, having said all this: I know that I have a Tiger system Power Mac G4
500MHZ, and I am running 1.5GB of S D Ram. I'm wonderring, if the processer
being so slow, is causing it to take so long. I did a trace route, and that
looked fine. I even pinged google and that also looked just fine. there
was no packet loss. I had Time Warner look to see if the HF signal was too
high, or too low, and the DB level on the line looks fine. Also a ping to
my modem showed no packet loss. the amount of hops in the trace route
report looks fine. So does the time over those hops. This is almost thus,
leading me, being that I connected my modem directly to my other pc's and
also went through my router, and in both senarios, they are a lot faster
than the Mac. The Mac is showing the exact same ping and trace route
results. everything looks good, to wonder, if this may be an issue with my
slow processer. I kind a doubt it though, as if that was the case, wouldn't
all my other applications, be slow? I know some apps take higher threading
priority than others, but, that still doesn't really fully answer my
question. I'm just trying to pinpoint down why this is happenning. I seem
to recall in Safari 2, before I updated, that I had this same issue.
Anyway, any help would be wonderfully appreciated. Yes, I have done
software update. All is perfectly up to date and fine.
Yes I did clear my history, and my cache.
Chris.
