Has anybody else noticed that Safari hangs quite often and sometimes gives you the site not found error? Perhaps I never really noticed it before until I started to use MAC as my main machine. It hangs quite often on CNN.com. Not that I care about reading CNN.com but this is unacceptable performance in this day and age. Firefox for MAC renders fonts in awkward sizes which I don’t particularly like, but I might have to start using that as my default browser unless someone tells me how to fix the Safari hanging problem.
yes, i have noticed it on my iBook G4 using Safari…although it is intermittent, it can be annoying sometimes!
You said it man!
When you installed 10.4, did you do an archive and install, a clean install or just an update? If you did just an update, it may be a better idea to reinstall it with the archive and install option. I do this with every major Mac OS upgrade and I’ve never had a serious problem. I did this with 10.4 and the only Safari problem I have is with it not loading Quicktime files. If never hangs, crashes or says server not found.
(As a slight aside, why do you capitalize Mac? It’s not an acronym…)
Hi Brad,
Thanks for the comment. I did a clean install on with Tiger on the machine I’m having Safari with. Although, I don’t see how this could fix the problem I’m having. No reason for the capitalization..Just shouting it I guess ;)
It doesn’t make sense as to why it works or doesn’t, but for some reason, I’ve found it does. I don’t know if it’s that when you do an update some files that need to get overwritten don’t or what. When I first for 10.1, I just did an upgrade and had all kinds of really odd problems…random crashes, kernel panics, etc. I went back and did an archive and install and it instantly corrected every problem I saw. That made a believer out of me. Just a thought I had about your problem.
I understand about the shouting. If I had a machine as nice as that, I’d want everyone to know about it too.