I had a sluggish Safari but I disabled Top Sites and it is all much quicker now.
Safari>Preferences>General>New windows / New tabs items set to "Empty Page" Richard On 13 Jan 2011, at 08:51, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > Try installing adblock for safari, it'll cut down the amount of ads it has to > display. > > Safari menu > safari extensions gallery > adblock > > While you're at it, install 'comic sans be gone' > > Regards > > Sam > > -- > MacAmbulance > Sam Mullen > 07747778022 > [email protected] > > On 13 Jan 2011, at 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 >>> -- >>> 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]. >> 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. -- 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.
