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Safari makes me angry

Gibson Les Paul

Gibson Les Paul

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Original poster
Sep 11, 2005
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San Antonio, TX
Hello,

I cant stand this issue with Safari. I use it as my main browser, and after a while, it begins to run very slow. It takes longer to start up, and takes long for it to quit. When I quit, I get the spinning beach ball for a while, then it finally quits. When I start it up, it bounces in the dock for a while, then it finally loads. To fix this issue, I have to delete the Icons folder in the library for Safari. After I delete it, everything runs very well, but then eventually it gets slow again. I have to keep doing this over and over to keep Safari running fine.

System specs. Powermac G4 400mhz upgraded to 1GHz processor, 768mb RAM, 18gb hard drive with over 5gb of space left. I have another 20gb hard drive, but that is for backup, so is my 5gb partition and external 40gb hard drive.

Anyone know why I have to keep doing this for Safari to continue working properly?
 
Doesn't address your specific question-- but I just swap between Camino and Safari; if either one misbehaves, I go to the other. It is annoying, but I think it's impressive that you've found even a temporary solution.

er... Where is this 'icons folder' you speak of? :eek:
 
devilot76 said:
Doesn't address your specific question-- but I just swap between Camino and Safari; if either one misbehaves, I go to the other. It is annoying, but I think it's impressive that you've found even a temporary solution.

er... Where is this 'icons folder' you speak of? :eek:
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Users/Library/Safari

The icons folder is in there. When you delete it, its full of junk. As soon as you launch Safari, it runs very well.

I was never fond of Camino. I use FireFox from time to time, but I'm not very fond of it either.
 
This happens to me occasionally but I don't get rid of the icons.

Instead, I go into preferences and check that I'm not asking Safari to remember the contents of every form (or at least delete some of them). Seems to make a big difference in speed...
 
Possibly a stupid suggestion:

What if you could put some kind of lock or lack of write permission on the Icons folder so that it could never fill up with junk? :confused: :cool:
 
Applespider said:
This happens to me occasionally but I don't get rid of the icons.

Instead, I go into preferences and check that I'm not asking Safari to remember the contents of every form (or at least delete some of them). Seems to make a big difference in speed...
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I've done that long ago. It does make a difference in speed, but it doesn't keep Safari from running slowly eventually.
 
ohcrap said:
Possibly a stupid suggestion:

What if you could put some kind of lock or lack of write permission on the Icons folder so that it could never fill up with junk? :confused: :cool:
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If you dig around in the Icons folder, it is full of folders. Inside of the folders are more folders. Inside the other folders are items called "2399797824-3347302104.cache"

It seems that these files are what are causing Safari to run slowly. Also, emptying the cache doesn't solve this issue.
 
Gibson Les Paul said:
If you dig around in the Icons folder, it is full of folders. Inside of the folders are more folders. Inside the other folders are items called "2399797824-3347302104.cache"

It seems that these files are what are causing Safari to run slowly. Also, emptying the cache doesn't solve this issue.
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No offense but what did that have to do with what I said?

If you could somehow restrict write access on that folder, none of those other folders could be placed there at all.
 
ohcrap said:
No offense but what did that have to do with what I said?

If you could somehow restrict write access on that folder, none of those other folders could be placed there at all.
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It didn't. I obviously hit the wrong reply button. I was letting others know what is in the Icons folder. Not sure why I would even take offense to your reply.

I tried your suggestion. If you put No access, your bookmarks will be removed from your Safari window. You put read only, the icons folder still comes back.
 
Gibson Les Paul said:
It didn't. I obviously hit the wrong reply button. I was letting others know what is in the Icons folder. Not sure why I would even take offense to your reply.
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Wanted to make sure I wasn't coming off as a jerk. :)
 
I just reset Safari. It's probably overkill but it gets things running smoothly again. One of my biggest problems with Safari is that it sometimes starts getting a bit sloppy when it comes to highlighting links I've already been to. It gets pretty frustrating clicking on links only to realise I'd just been there. :(
 
Gibson Les Paul said:
I tried your suggestion. If you put No access, your bookmarks will be removed from your Safari window. You put read only, the icons folder still comes back.
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Have you tried using Private Browsing?
 
safari bites plain and simple. ive cleaned the cache and done every trick in the book and still its crap. internet did kill the mac back in the day and now its the browser that is finishing the job
 
Buddha says, "The only thing to make you angry, is you."


ps. I love Safari. All is good in the world.
 
ohcrap said:
No offense but what did that have to do with what I said?

If you could somehow restrict write access on that folder, none of those other folders could be placed there at all.
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All you have to do is make the folder read only. You can more than likely do this in the get info dialog but even from the command line using chmod (do man chmod for information).
 
OS/X is so great....and we have to put up with this ineptness? What gives? You think they would be able to put a browser together that would be sufficient for daily use, instead of 'swapping from one browser to another". Highly unacceptable for an OS as good as this is.
 
opusthe2nd said:
OS/X is so great....and we have to put up with this ineptness? What gives? You think they would be able to put a browser together that would be sufficient for daily use, instead of 'swapping from one browser to another". Highly unacceptable for an OS as good as this is.
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I'd say a lot of the problems stem from IE and the way it doesn't actually comply to any standards except it's own. Therefore both Safari and Firefox have to find ways to try and do things similarily, leading to problems. Anyway its only getting better.

And personally, i'd prefer a "slow" browser like safari instead of a "gives you tonnes of viruses and adware" browser like IE :)
 
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