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safari and my.yahoo: why so slow?
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado USA
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i have a fairly well populated yahoo site (my.yahoo), and without fail, it is the slowest beachball inducing site i use on safari 2.0.1 in tiger 10.4.2. and this is after doing a total reformat of my hard drive.
it seems to be waiting on flash banners (from hp, mostly), but i've noticed the beachball becoming nearly ubiquitous. the page loads but you cannot use the page (or safari) for a good 5-10 seconds while the beachball spins.
is there some underlying issue with yahoo that prevents safari from doing a fast load? i'm about to ditch my.yahoo as my homepage!
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I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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What hardware are you using? How much RAM?
Chris
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And install the latest Flash, it'll help if that's where the slowdown is.
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ram is 1 gig on a pb 1.67ghz.
firefox has none of these issues.
how would i check to see if i have the latest flash? this seems like it would be something included in a 2.0.1 safari browser? if it's not, that's a great idea, but i thought the age of having to re-install flash plugins was over. guess i was wrong?
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I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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i need to correct myself: i have 2 gigs of RAM, not 1. and the slowness really does seem to be due to the flash banner on yahoo. it is different ones that seem to lock up the window and all of safari with a beachball until the flash restarts. it could be something else causing the flash to pause as well, but this is really odd.
i empty cache, run cocktail, quit, restart. all those things. AND i did a clean install last friday. safari was a little snappier, but it did not last for more than a day or two.
any other ideas?
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I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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I too am having similar problems,
I am using an older machine ( Dual 400 G4 768 RAM) 10.3.9
I am having my problems in Firefox and Mozilla, Flash ads bring the browser to a crawl
the beachball comes out. Not Fun! If I hold my mouse button down I see the animation go at normal
speed, but when I let go, back to the beachball. After a minute or two it must load properly or something, as it goes away but this is getting really annoying, newest Flash intalled. Used Cocktail, repaired permissions etc. nothing seems to help. The page I get consistent trouble from is a local newspapaer, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal. Their ads always kill me. Of course the PC's I use at work see these just fine.  Very frustrating as a longtime Mac guy, any I deas?
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i did get some better results after downloading the newest flash (although i'm not convinced that it's not already in safari), resetting it completely. i still get beachballs, but it's not as bad.
you might try going to macromedia.com and downloading that and installing it on your machine...
i think firefox just beats the pants off safari. at least in my experience with the sites i use. i wish it wasn't so damned ugly and integrated better with the iapps...
oh well... maybe safari 2.1 (i've been saying this since the beta)
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