04-30-2011, 12:04 AM
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.
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.