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Mac OSX browser/general slowdown issues
Kalkino
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I run a two year old basic 2Ghz Intel Macbook with 10.6.4 installed and I've been noticing a fair amount of browser lag over the last month or two.
By lag I mean quite often (at least once or twice every 10 minutes of use) the spinning ball comes up when I attempt to switch tabs in either Safari or Firefox (both are up to date). This lag can happen for 5-30 seconds. It also occurs quite often when switching programmes or trying to close programmes. I've tried to just run one programme at a time, but that hasn't seemed to make any difference as to the frequency or length of the lag. I have also noticed that it isn't just confined to loading pages that are heavy on photos or videos. Just tabbing between various forums seems to do the trick sometimes
I've had a look at the hard drive using the Disk Utility but everything seems to be running ok. I have about 25% of the hard drive space free.
Any suggestions as to what this might be or how I might resolve it?
By lag I mean quite often (at least once or twice every 10 minutes of use) the spinning ball comes up when I attempt to switch tabs in either Safari or Firefox (both are up to date). This lag can happen for 5-30 seconds. It also occurs quite often when switching programmes or trying to close programmes. I've tried to just run one programme at a time, but that hasn't seemed to make any difference as to the frequency or length of the lag. I have also noticed that it isn't just confined to loading pages that are heavy on photos or videos. Just tabbing between various forums seems to do the trick sometimes
I've had a look at the hard drive using the Disk Utility but everything seems to be running ok. I have about 25% of the hard drive space free.
Any suggestions as to what this might be or how I might resolve it?
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Open up your disk utility, highlight your partition, and then click "Repair File Permissions." See if that helps any.
Delete the Caches folders (/Library/Caches, /System/Library/Caches/, and /Users/<username>/Library/Caches/)
See what happens in Safe Mode (hold shift as you turn on the computer and keep holding it until the Apple logo appears on the screen).
Open Activity Monitor and see how much memory/CPU the offending browser is using.
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safari is never using a ton right before a crash, and i do restart mine every once and awhile. Sometimes the CPU spikes when flash decides to crash safari, but safari crashes on its own sometimes without flash's help
somehow i doubt this
I'll try the other ideas suggested
Thanks again
C) Switch over to Chrome, the Mac version recently came out of beta and it's blinding fast.
D) How much RAM do you have?
E) Try out the Flash Player 10.1 pre-release and see if that boosts performance, it certainly did for me.
I'm going to try Chrome for a week and I've updated my Onyx version and run the tools. I'll consider updating Flash if the above doesn't show much improvement. I will say Chome is amazingly fast compared to Safari/FF - although 10 minutes use isn't really a lot to go on I guess
Flash literally kills this thing
Sorry, forgot to answer this.
I run 1gb of ram.
My housemate who has a 9 month old top of the line MacBook Pro has had similar issues with Safari and Firefox
Also, run disk utility, select your hard drive, and hit verify disk. It might turn up an error asking you to boot off your OS X installation disk, and from there, you can repair your hard drive.