Macbook Pro Slow With Safari

SolidSnake · 6 Dec 2009 at 18:50

Sup everyone,

Is anyone experiencing slow internet with safari? i on leopard but it seems to be running really slow loading up web pages. Im with Virgin got a 20mb connection. When i run a speed test i get about 16/17mb download speed from the test.

Is there any tweaks or anything to speed it up?

Thanks

mr.sly · 6 Dec 2009 at 18:56

Safari is the fastest browser on a Mac, so I don't see why it should be slow. Are you experiencing the same problems with Firefox?

SolidSnake · 6 Dec 2009 at 19:06

firefox is slightly quicker id say.... got a linksys router too... systems a little slow too got 2gb ram. is there anything i can do to speed it up?

Logsi · 6 Dec 2009 at 19:36

Get Webkit!

Then it's the faster than lightning!

I've been using webkit for the past couple of years. It's great!

SilverPenguin · 7 Dec 2009 at 00:18

I get about 6mb on my connection at home but Safari flies along nicely for me.

OzyOly · 7 Dec 2009 at 00:30

Logsi said:
Get Webkit!

Then it's the faster than lightning!

I've been using webkit for the past couple of years. It's great!

Just tried it now, really speedy.

Logsi · 7 Dec 2009 at 01:23

OzyOly said:
Just tried it now, really speedy.

It can be annoying having to download nightly builds but they're only incremental most of the time. 3mb a pop usually.

I think it's great though!

Deleted member 651465 · 7 Dec 2009 at 10:46

Change your Virgin DNS settings to the new Google DNS.

Primary: 8.8.8.8
Secondary: 8.8.4.4

A lot of people in the network subforum are reporting an improvement. I use them myself and it's a lot faster when loading pages (ADSL 2MB).

feriso · 7 Dec 2009 at 10:56

I'd suggest OpenDNS, changed from o2 usual ones and things are better

Macbook Pro Slow With Safari

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