Thanks Warren, I have tried the first option and so far it has behaved as expected. I will need a week of trouble free operation before I am convinced though that it has been fully successful.
Thanks for the tips. Regards Peter. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Warren Jones Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2010 11:42 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Safari freezes Hi Peter I had a very similar problem at home too. It has to do with Safari 5.0.1 & later "prefetching" DNS lookups and your router or your ISP's DNS server not handling the number of requests Two options - use another DNS server e.g. 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 (google's open servers) instead of your ISP's. - use Terminal to disable Safari's prefetching... defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled -boolean false Apple Support article... <http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3408> Changing the defaults seemed to work for me. cheers woz On 20/10/2010, at 11:01 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: Hi all, last night was the last straw to motivate me to write this. The Macbook (Snow Leopard) is connected wirelessly in the house, my wife was using Safari to check news.com.au site last night and it just froze, as it has done many times before over the almost 1 year we've had it. My old reliable Windows laptop alongside (2 metres away) I used as a control experiment and was instantly able to get the news.com.au site up on screen. She Quit Safari and started Safari again with no success. Wireless signal was showing "Excellent" on the Windows machine alongside and minutes before, the Macbook was able to web browse without issue. Ultimately a restart of the Macbook got it going again, but what really was the problem? Any tips on when it recurs how I might diagnose the root cause? I'd like to download Firefox as a way of removing Safari from the 'risk register', but that strategy is a bit archaic to say the least. Thanks. Peter. ________________________________ ________________________________ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> ***************************** NOTICE - This message from Hatch is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential or proprietary. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, arrive late or contain viruses. By communicating with us via e-mail, you accept such risks. When addressed to our clients, any information, drawings, opinions or advice (collectively, "information") contained in this e-mail is subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing agreements. Where no such agreement exists, the recipient shall neither rely upon nor disclose to others, such information without our written consent. Unless otherwise agreed, we do not assume any liability with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the information set out in this e-mail. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and destroy and delete the message from your computer. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
