UPDATE: How I speed up Safari on my account

[space-time]

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.

[Chakravartin]

Replace the folder with a locked file of the same name.

[celliott]

So where is webpage previews located?

[space-time]

celliott wrote:
So where is webpage previews located?

~Library/caches/com.apple.Safari

[Drew]

Same symptoms, same results. Thanks!

[RAMd®d]

I think I emptied that folder, did a Cmd-I, locked it, done.

[Mr645]

wow, mine was 556MB

[nwyaker]

Half a gig here too.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Chakravartin wrote:
Replace the folder with a locked file of the same name.

Or write an Automator script that deletes it daily.

[mrmac]

Hi, I have found a step to step tutorial here: http://adviceall-round.forumotion.co.uk/...on-leopard