Okay, I am officially replying to my own post. It's a long story, but to reduce it to the relevant facts, I am able to update webkit when I attach my MBP directly to the cable modem via eathernet. When routers are introduced into the circuit, however, I always experience the symptoms described below. I've seen this both with my Mother's Linksys router and my d-link DIR655 which are both at the latest available firmware levels. There is no filtering configured on either router, and until late December I had no problems updating webkit from either location.
While visiting the Apple store I had no difficulty updating Webkit using their hotspot, hence I presume there must be a way to accomplish the task through routers <smile>. More over, I wouldn't be the only one posting on this. To reitterate, I have no web filtering active on either device, and as far as I know, only the webkit download and update check sites are affected. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Geoff On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm having varied symptoms browsing on my MBP. Perhaps the two are related > -- I'm guessing so. It all started when Webkit randomly hung up. I would > press the submit button in a form and then Voiceover would repeatidly > announce "safari busy" and "safari ready". Pressing a key did not take and I > had to close and reopen the browser. > > Next, I was unable to update Webkit. Since that problem appeared to be > unique to me I erased webkit.app and attempted to download the current build. > For several days now I click on the download link and after about 30 seconds > I receive the following message: > > Safari can’t open the page “http://nightly.webkit.org/” because the server > where this page is located isn’t responding. > > I can't load that URL on my XP machine either, but can't imagine that my ISP > is blocking it? I'm also having problems displaying other pages. For > example, I'm attempting to register at the Apple developer site and it hangs > after I press submit. > > I killed my cookies, but this had no affect. Could not find how to clear any > other cache that could be a factor? > > Is it time to reinstall Snow leopard? Btw, version 10.6.7 is installed, but > my problem began before this update was available. > > TIA for any suggestions. > Geoff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
