I'm finding the same with Safari as Phillipe, as it happens, though once the first 5-10 minutes are up, it seems better. I have a few passive extensions (such as 1Password, Adblocker (ok that isn't that passive) and Instapaper buttons). I'm on a 3 year old intel macbook.
I recently tried rebooting in Safe mode and reinstalling the combo-updater as the lappie was generally slow, which has helped a bit. Have you tried looking at Activity Monitor at the same time to see if there are any other processes happening that might be hogging CPU cycles? Regards Russell ---------------------------------------------------------- Manor Park Medical Centre www.manorparksurgery.com Tel 01323482301 East Sussex Local Medical Committee (Chair) www.sslmcs.co.uk/ Tel 01372389270 ---------------------------------------------------------- Have your say about NHS market reforms Visit www.lookafterournhs.org.uk On 13 January 2011 08:32, Graham Street <[email protected]>wrote: > I have the same setup, running on a 5-year-old MacBook Pro. No slowdowns > at all. I also run Chrome, Firefox (3, and 4 Beta), Opera and Camino. I have > to test new websites in them, so that's why I run a lot. At the moment I > mainly use Safari for normal browsing but do some detailed testing in > Firefox because the tools are better. My preference is actually Chrome and I > may move to that. It does seem very fast. Firefox needs a restart now and > again to release memory it seems to hog. But, on the other hand, none of > them are really slow. > > Graham > > > on 13/01/2011 08:18 Philippe Chandless sent the following: > > Good morning, > > I'm running the latest version of Safari (5.0.3) on my venerable Macbook > with OS 10.6.6 and it's *really* slow. About half the time it seems to > hang for up to a minute before loading a page and, generally, feels very > clunky. > > My question is; is it my 4 year old MacBook (due to be replaced as soon > as I get some £'s), Safari itself or something else. I've repaired > permissions (don't know if it helps). > > If it is Safari, is there a consensus about which of the other browsers > (Chrome, Firefox & Opera) is 'best'? > > All the best > Philippe > -- > Sent with Sparrow <http://www.sparrowmailapp.com> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <smug%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
