[Scifience]

I've released a new Safari utility, SafariSpeed. It applies the terminal tweak that removes the page loading delay.

Before people yell at me that you "can just use the terminal", remember that there are a lot of non-geek Mac users out there who might find an automated utility to do this useful.

In any case, it is completely free, and you can download it here:

http://www.scifience.net/safarispeed.html

Suggestions/comments are welcome, just see the above first.

[F_Elz]

Cool.

[badtz]

is there a downside to using it to remove the page delay?

[Scifience]

Originally posted by badtz:
is there a downside to using it to remove the page delay?

No, there's no real downside to removing the delay. If you feel like it, you can wait until 1.0.1 later today, which will add the ability to restore the original setting.

[Sod Off Sadr]

that's cool.

Why would Apple have the delay to being with?

[milenko11]

i didn't really notice a difference.

[Love Calm Quiet]

Suggestion:
Why not provide a *description* (benefits, how it achieves them, etc. - like one might put in a ReadMe file) on your site of each piece of software. Personally, I'm unlikely to download software out of curiosity. I checked out your software because of your notes here about SafariSpeed, but see others that might be interesting, but judging software by its name is like judging a book by its cover.
My two cents.

"Documentation rules!"

[Earth Mk. II]

Originally posted by Sod Off Sadr:
that's cool.

Why would Apple have the delay to being with?

I think it was so that Safari would have the page fully (or mostly) rendered before displaying it.

From Hyatt's blog:

Testing Page Load Speed
A naive approach might be to simply remove all delays and show the page as soon as you get the first chunk of data. However, there are drawbacks to showing a page immediately. Sure, you could try to switch to a new page immediately, but if you don't have anything meaningful to show, you'll end up with a "flashy" feeling, as the old page disappears and is replaced by a blank white canvas, and only later does the real page content come in. Ideally transitions between pages should be smooth, with one page not being replaced by another until you can know reliably that the new page will be reasonably far along in its life cycle.


In Safari 1.2 and in Mozilla-based browsers, the heuristic for this is quite simple. Both browsers use a time delay, and are unwilling to switch to the new page until that time threshold has been exceeded. This setting is configurable in both browsers (in the former using WebKit preferences and in the latter using about:config).

[jamow2]

Safari 1.2.3 feels quicker to me after the update...

[Scifience]

Originally posted by Love Calm Quiet:
Suggestion:
Why not provide a *description* (benefits, how it achieves them, etc. - like one might put in a ReadMe file) on your site of each piece of software. Personally, I'm unlikely to download software out of curiosity. I checked out your software because of your notes here about SafariSpeed, but see others that might be interesting, but judging software by its name is like judging a book by its cover.
My two cents.

"Documentation rules!"

The description is actuall on the home page (http://www.scifience.net/) and is listed with sites like MacUpdate, VersionTracker, etc. The page I actually linked to above is just the download page. There is also documentation included with the downloads.

In other news, I also added the ability to have SafariSpeed reset the page load delay to its default setting, bringing the utility to version 1.0.1.

[fisherKing]

seems slightly faster (1.2.3 on a 1.33pb).
nice! (every bit counts!)

[osxisfun]

does this work with safari 1.2.2 on osx 10.3.4?

thanks.

[gorickey]

Originally posted by osxisfun:
does this work with safari 1.2.2 on osx 10.3.4?

thanks.

Yes, it should.

[maxintosh]

How about a hack for Safari that lets it overcome it's whole "only-download-four-itmes-at-once" thing? That drives me NUTS. Or has someone already solved this and I have just been asleep?

[badtz]

... it's already been solved.

[fisherKing]

seeing some pages load, as opposed to them loading & 'flashing' on...
sorta high-speed 28k modem experience...

but,
had a Major Crash loading a site; my mac froze like in the os9 days...frozen, nothing moving, working.

had to do a command-control-power restart.

will continue working, as i like the fast loading, but will watch for any other glitches..

[maxintosh]

Originally posted by badtz:
... it's already been solved.

So what's the solution?

[badtz]

Do you have the newest safari?

Apple took off that limitation in the latest versions.

[Scifience]

Originally posted by badtz:
Do you have the newest safari?

Apple took off that limitation in the latest versions.

The latest, publically available version of Safari definately still has this limitation in place. Where did you hear this?

[maxintosh]

Originally posted by Scifience:
The latest, publically available version of Safari definately still has this limitation in place. Where did you hear this?

Yay, so I'm not just crazy.

Hmm....

[TheBadgerHunter]

In 1.3 (developer beta v146) you can download more than four at a time.

[Taipan]

Hi!

I think you can have more than 4 simultaneous downloads in the download manager, but not more than 4 connections in Safari windows/tabs. I hate it, too...

[badtz]

Originally posted by Scifience:
The latest, publically available version of Safari definately still has this limitation in place. Where did you hear this?

Hmm ... I thought Safari fixed this issue on the latest public release.

I'll have to double check that when I get back home.

I could've swore it was fixed already!

Maybe I'm wrong?

[ferg]

How about safari downloading quicktime movies in the background; if I am downloading on preview and open another tab or window, the QT movie stops downloading until I bring that tab or window back to the front. Is there anywhere to adjust this?

Thanks!