I did actually downgrade to Safari 2.0.1 I think it is, and that did seem to
help slightly. Not by much, but it is getting better little by little.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike's Western Account" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: Very odd suspicions about Safari
chris i've noticed this with sites like bct and such as well and see it
still in leopard, 2.0gbz duo core, 1gb of ram, so i'm not sure what to
say
On Jul 25, 2008, at 4:40 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
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.
