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UPDATE: How I speed up Safari on my account - space-time - 04-30-2011
I am cruising along on a 6 year old powerbook, and a fresh install of 10.5.8 seemed fine for a short while then browsing in Safari got really slow. I enabled Guest account and I noticed that Safari was 10x faster there.
I went back to my account and tried various tricks, deleting cache in Safari, etc. I think I may have ran Onyx, but I am not sure.
It seems to help for a bit, but it got really slow again.
I looked at the Safari cache folder (~Library/caches/com.apple.Safari and noticed the folder size was over 300 MB. I emptied the Cache, the folder size was now 299 MB. WHF? it turns out Webpage Previews was 299 MB. I erased this folder, and now Safari opens in 2 bounces (versus 10) and browsing is just as fast as in the Guest account. A new folder Webpage Previews was created, but it's only 18 MB vs 299.
I will keep deleting this older daily if that makes Safari faster for me.
Re: UPDATE: How I speed up Safari on my account - Chakravartin - 04-30-2011
Replace the folder with a locked file of the same name.
Re: UPDATE: How I speed up Safari on my account - celliott - 04-30-2011
So where is webpage previews located?
Re: UPDATE: How I speed up Safari on my account - space-time - 04-30-2011
celliott wrote:
So where is webpage previews located?
~Library/caches/com.apple.Safari
Re: UPDATE: How I speed up Safari on my account - Drew - 04-30-2011
Same symptoms, same results. Thanks!
Re: UPDATE: How I speed up Safari on my account - RAMd®d - 04-30-2011
I think I emptied that folder, did a Cmd-I, locked it, done.
Re: UPDATE: How I speed up Safari on my account - Mr645 - 04-30-2011
wow, mine was 556MB
Re: UPDATE: How I speed up Safari on my account - nwyaker - 04-30-2011
Half a gig here too.
Re: UPDATE: How I speed up Safari on my account - N-OS X-tasy! - 04-30-2011
Chakravartin wrote:
Replace the folder with a locked file of the same name.
Or write an Automator script that deletes it daily.
Re: UPDATE: How I speed up Safari on my account - mrmac - 09-03-2011
Hi, I have found a step to step tutorial here: http://adviceall-round.forumotion.co.uk/t3-how-can-i-speed-up-safari-in-mac-os-x-lion-leopard