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    Safari being sluggish?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by dba415, Mar 18, 2011.

  1. dba415

    dba415 Notebook Geek

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    Hey I noticed that my Safari has been really sluggish for the past few weeks. Especially on resource heavy websites. I would get the spinning circle a ton of the time and have to wait a bit before things load.

    A few days ago I tried loading a website and it caused my entire machine to freeze and had to manually turn it off.

    I did the recent update and it didn't help any.
     
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    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    Often times browser problems are related to plug ins? Flash being the main problem.

    Is there any particular website that causes problems or is it all of them?
     
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    dba415 Notebook Geek

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    For the most part it's flash-heavy/resource heavy websites. Not a specific website but just those in general.
     
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    Try clearing all the flash cookies. You can find them here:

    ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects

    ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/

    In those folders you will find a bunch of folders with random letters like VZDJH12G

    Delete them all. Note* This will reset any highscores of flash games and any user data for flash.

    There is also a tool called Flush that can do the same thing:
    Flush.app – Flash Cookie Removal Tool For OS X | MacHacks.TV
     
    wave, Mar 19, 2011
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    djshack Notebook Geek

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    Not sure if you're still having the problem, but do you have AdBlock (the extension, not the SIMBL plugin) installed? That extension has been known to have problems.

    It causes Safari to use excessive RAM (more than the usual), and causes spinning beach balls with CPU spikes at times.

    If you do not have that extension installed, try performing a full reset of Safari (Safari -> Reset Safari...).
     
    djshack, Mar 24, 2011
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