Having Annoying Problems with Safari

Camino 1.5

However posting your machine config and OS version will help as well.

Sorry, I'm running OS X 10.4.10 on a Mac Mini 1.66GHz Intel CORE DUO machine. I tried Camino the other day and it sucked even worse than Safari for me anyway. This crap Flock seems to be doing the job, however the turd just crashed while I was uploading my Profile picture.

Sounds like it might be DNS related ... lots of times if you're sitting on a spinning beachball its because a nameserver lookup failed and safari/camino didn't catch it. Unreliable DNS servers (such as the ones from your ISP) are nutorious for this stuff. Look up the info for Open DNS on here (or on google) and try it out and see if it helps.

Also you might want to trun something like Onyx and clean out your internet caches, that may help as well.

I knew my RAM could have been a problem, but I am poor as **** right now. Being a freelance Graphics Designer in the Grande Prairie, AB region is pretty much self-"un"employment with all the Oil peeps around. I'm planning on upgrading the memory to its max of 2GB, but thats money I don't have.

I'll try the other suggestions though and thanx in advance guys, i'd never get this level of support if I were a PC Dummy.

Holy crap! Open DNS solved my problems big time! Thanx guys!:clap: and the nets never been this freaking fast on this crap cable internet connection before!

Glad it worked out for you Lots of ISP DNS servers are horrible .. they overwork them massively ... and they are such a crucial part of things. Having hi speed internet with a crappy DNS server is like having a porsche with a 2 cylinder engine that sputters and coughs constantly.

mguertin said:

Glad it worked out for you Lots of ISP DNS servers are horrible .. they overwork them massively ... and they are such a crucial part of things. Having hi speed internet with a crappy DNS server is like having a porsche with a 2 cylinder engine that sputters and coughs constantly.

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That is a good analogy of crap-poor ISP DNS servers dude. I've had choice words for those Persona morons and their crap speeds. Here in Northern parts of Alberta, we had Northern Cable Vision which was bought out by these people calling them selves "The Amazing Persona". Basically they took over and made the cable internet packages at every level suck even more so again I thank you guys for pointing me to OpenDNS

I was also wondering after the boost of speed with OpenDNS for my Mac, might OpenDNS also improve the performance of my XBOX Live connection?

Glad to hear OpenDNS solved your problems. I find Safari to be a very buggy program, crashing whenever it wants to, rendering pages poorly, etc, etc. I often have to switch to Firefox.

I'm working between Flock 0.7.14, Netscape 9, Firefox and Camino. I prefer not to use Safari and that piece of crap Opera as much anymore.

For light RAM SeaMonkey works well - takes a while to load then goes fast. Ugly tho.

MacDoc said:

For light RAM SeaMonkey works well - takes a while to load then goes fast. Ugly tho.

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Thats why I rarely use it, it looks like it was pulled out of a PCs ass. Though Mozilla back in the day before the all powerful Firefox was released, looked just as bad and their themes were crap too. I tried a crapload of browsers before I found ehMac.ca and got the answers to my dilema with crap speeds under my ISPs garbage DNS servers. Most were complete ****, but I do agree that once SeaMonkey got its self loaded, it was a breeze to use. Well I'll see about downloading it again just incase Flock or Safari decides to pull another crap-rabbit from their hats.