[Elixir]

seriously, i dont understand what it is because i thought my old powerbook just had a shitty graphics card, slow processor or whatever but now even my macbook loads myspace insanely slow.

what gives? my connection is pretty decent. the old ass piece of crap windows pc loads myspace in a giffy. i dont get it?


can anyone else attest to this?


every other site loads super fast.


i also know myspace is always flooded but still like i said the pc runs it fine.


my macbook struggles with it

[mduell]

Try the latest Deer Park build of Firefox on your MBP; could just be Safari being slow to render a complex page.

[ghporter]

1) Myspace is oversubscribed for the traffic they've managed to generate

2) Windows connections sometimes use non-standard tricks to improve performance

3) As the PC gets that site to download fine, there's most likely a setting NOT INVOLVING THE OS that is different on the Mac.

Ask this NETWORKING-ORIENTED question in the Networking forum and see what response you get.

[tooki]

I gotta disagree with you there, Glenn!

While this certainly isn't an OS X question, it is DEFINITELY not a networking question! This question is about browsers, and browsers are applications, for which we have a dedicated forum.

The problem with Myspace is the crap people put on their pages: Flash-based audio and video clips, Windows Media clips, MPEG and QuickTime, often on the same page (thus forcing the loading of multiple plugins), plus awful, awful cut-and-pasted layouts with horrible CSS and excessive use of transparency (with fixed page backgrounds) that require tremendous CPU time to render.

tooki