Thanks for the help, guys! I've never used the System Monitor to see what's going on, Andreas, so I'll have to figure out how to do that next time the slowdown happens. I'm not much of a power user. I wonder if that's the thing called Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder? I tried it, and it's an interesting display, showing "real memory," "virtual memory," etc. I'll put it on the dock, and launch it next time I have a Safari slowdown to see if I can get a clue as to the cause. Just watching it as I go from website to website, it seems to vary between 60 and 90 MB of Real Memory.
Good to know that quitting and restarting Safari will fix things, though, at least temporarily. I'll try that too, the next time the trouble occurs. Yes, this Mac is online all day, and it seems to be a progressive slowdown as the day goes on. I don't know what a memory leak is, but I'm not keen on the idea of leaking anything. Sounds like this kind of leak is not something easily plugged. I went and got Click to Flash and installed it in Safari. So far, so good, no slowdowns since I installed it, and it's interesting to see Flash items being blocked by flat gray icons. Thanks for telling me about that, Bruce. I'd never heard of it before. Best, Tom -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
