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jollino

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Nov 15, 2006
366
10
Chieti, Italy
Hi all,
I've been experiencing an annoying problem with Safari 6 on OS X 10.8.2 on my Mac Mini 2012. Essentially, sites being served over SSL, in particular Facebook and (ironically) the Apple discussion forums, are sometimes — not always, which is even more annoying as it makes it hard to debug — slow as a comatose slug. This doesn't happen in any other browser.

I looked around and the solution seems remove all expired certificates from the Keychain... however I have none that have already expired. The ones that will expire the soonest is my own iPhone distribution certificate issued by Apple, but that won't be until June 14th. Disabling DNS prefetching, as suggested by Apple on http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3408?viewlocale=en_US, doesn't seem to work, and I'm not even sure if it still applies to Safari 6.

On Facebook one can effectively disable the "prefer SSL connection" option), which I did, as a workaround. While Facebook is the most obvious site that exhibits this issue (due to the continued background polling and bazillion images and elements, especially on the news feed), it actually randomly happens anywhere ssl is involved. Checking my bank balance this morning gave me an extra heart attack due to wait to know that I'm broke, for instance.

So I was wondering: has this happened to anyone else, and how did you fix it?

Thanks!
 

freejazz-man

macrumors regular
May 12, 2010
222
2
don't chrome and safari use the same certificate and key stores anyway?

did you try with chrome or just firefox?

that sounds funky, can you update safari?
 

jollino

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Nov 15, 2006
366
10
Chieti, Italy
They may use the same key stores, but Safari's the only one choking on ssl stuff and the only solution given on various forums is to remove expired certs— which I do not have.:(
 

freejazz-man

macrumors regular
May 12, 2010
222
2
I'm assuming the date is setup properly on your mac then

just try and delete the offending certs to see if that helps? I'm guessing Safari is up to date?
 
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