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tkmd · Jan 24, 2005, 11:35 AM

I just tried the some of the hints given http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...50118152940322 and wow has safari speed up. I hope that this information is new. Try it out.

brutal · Jan 24, 2005, 12:25 PM

Yes, Safari actually seems snappier after this.

But that could just be me imagining things..

Love Calm Quiet · Jan 24, 2005, 01:00 PM

The article states it's helpful "for faster machines". Anyone know *how fast*?

Perhaps a 667MHz Tibook doesn't make the cut-off, but I can't tell a difference. Should I be able to?

Love Calm Quiet · Jan 24, 2005, 01:08 PM

On additional testing...

MacNN is one place where I *am* getting definite improvement.

Fusion · Jan 24, 2005, 01:57 PM

There is a stand along app that will take care of this for you if you don't want to mess around in the Terminal. It is called "Safari Speed" and can be found on Macupdate or VersionTracker.

MartiNZ · Jan 24, 2005, 06:17 PM

Oh well, I'm on an 800MHz G3 iBook, which he basically tarnished 'not a fast computer' so I might just let it go for the moment... not really sure about what would be suitable numbers for that.

I don't often look at that site but there's some good stuff - I just found the recent one on changing column order in Finder list view ... now I might actually use that

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osxisfun · Jan 24, 2005, 06:34 PM

works me on a dual g5 2 gig.

thanks for pointing it out

wataru · Jan 24, 2005, 08:10 PM

There is a similar setting for Firefox, too.

adam1185 · Jan 24, 2005, 09:21 PM

woohoo thanks for the tip!

F_Elz · Jan 24, 2005, 11:39 PM

nice, if only icab3 was that fast

eatinwokout · Jan 24, 2005, 11:48 PM

Originally posted by osxisfun:
works me on a dual g5 2 gig.

thanks for pointing it out

LOL i bet..

CrusaderSean · Jan 25, 2005, 12:15 AM

maybe its just me... firefox's gui has always been absurdly slow for me (even optimized builds). it might be due to the tab browser extension i'm using. anyways, one of the main reasons i'm using safari most of the time is due to its faster response (and consisten gui).

alphasubzero949 · Jan 25, 2005, 12:44 AM

Awesome.

juusan · Jan 25, 2005, 02:55 AM

FF has always been slow for me too. if this works, I may actually go back to safari (that and the java support's improved since last year).

brutal · Jan 25, 2005, 05:35 AM

Originally posted by Fusion:
There is a stand along app that will take care of this for you if you don't want to mess around in the Terminal. It is called "Safari Speed" and can be found on Macupdate or VersionTracker.

I think Safari Speed only applies the WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay-command, though.

macmike42 · Jan 25, 2005, 09:14 AM

Originally posted by brutal:
I think Safari Speed only applies the WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay-command, though.

I think this is true. I had used SafariSpeed, TinkerTool, and OnyX at various points to apply the "reduce page loading delay" option, and although the WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay was already set to 0.25, the following command yielded the following results:

Code:
bookie:~ > defaults read com.apple.safari WebKitResourceTimedLayoutDelay
2005-01-25 10:06:01.573 defaults[4655] 
The domain/default pair of (com.apple.safari, WebKitResourceTimedLayoutDelay) does not exist

However, after applying it manually, Safari feels even faster.

I wonder why Apple doesn't set this up as the default. I have read Dave Hyatt's opinion on the subject, but I have not seen any ill rendering effects, even on extremely css-heavy pages.