RE: Safari freezes

[Crisp, Peter]

Thanks Warren, I have tried the first option and so far it has behaved
as expected. I will need a week of trouble free operation before I am
convinced though that it has been fully successful. 

 

Thanks for the tips.

 

Regards

 

Peter.



From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Warren Jones
Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2010 11:42 AM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: Safari freezes

 

Hi Peter

I had a very similar problem at home too.

It has to do with Safari 5.0.1 & later "prefetching" DNS lookups and
your router or your ISP's DNS server not handling the number of requests

 

Two options

 - use another DNS server e.g. 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 (google's open servers)
instead of your ISP's.

 - use Terminal to disable Safari's prefetching...

 

defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled -boolean
false

 

Apple Support article... <http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3408>

 

Changing the defaults seemed to work for me.

 

cheers

woz

 

 

On 20/10/2010, at 11:01 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote:





Hi all, last night was the last straw to motivate me to write this. The
Macbook (Snow Leopard) is connected wirelessly in the house, my wife was
using Safari to check news.com.au site last night and it just froze, as
it has done many times before over the almost 1 year we've had it. My
old reliable Windows laptop alongside (2 metres away) I used as a
control experiment and was instantly able to get the news.com.au site up
on screen. She Quit Safari and started Safari again with no success.
Wireless signal was showing "Excellent" on the Windows machine alongside
and minutes before, the Macbook was able to web browse without issue.
Ultimately a restart of the Macbook got it going again, but what really
was the problem?

 

Any tips on when it recurs how I might diagnose the root cause?

 

I'd like to download Firefox as a way of removing Safari from the 'risk
register', but that strategy is a bit archaic to say the least.

 

Thanks.

 

Peter.










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Re: Safari freezes

[Warren Jones]

Hi Peter
I had a very similar problem at home too.
It has to do with Safari 5.0.1 & later "prefetching" DNS lookups and  
your router or your ISP's DNS server not handling the number of requests


Two options
 - use another DNS server e.g. 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 (google's open  
servers) instead of your ISP's.

 - use Terminal to disable Safari's prefetching...

defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled -boolean  
false


Apple Support article... 

Changing the defaults seemed to work for me.

cheers
woz


On 20/10/2010, at 11:01 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote:

Hi all, last night was the last straw to motivate me to write this.  
The Macbook (Snow Leopard) is connected wirelessly in the house, my  
wife was using Safari to check news.com.au site last night and it  
just froze, as it has done many times before over the almost 1 year  
we’ve had it. My old reliable Windows laptop alongside (2 metres  
away) I used as a control experiment and was instantly able to get  
the news.com.au site up on screen. She Quit Safari and started  
Safari again with no success. Wireless signal was showing  
“Excellent” on the Windows machine alongside and minutes before, the  
Macbook was able to web browse without issue. Ultimately a restart  
of the Macbook got it going again, but what really was the problem?




Any tips on when it recurs how I might diagnose the root cause?



I’d like to download Firefox as a way of removing Safari from the  
‘risk register’, but that strategy is a bit archaic to say the least.




Thanks.



Peter.






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Re: Safari freezes

[Edward]

try Chrome…





On 20/10/2010, at 2:01 PM, Crisp, Peter wrote:

> Hi all, last night was the last straw to motivate me to write this. The 
> Macbook (Snow Leopard) is connected wirelessly in the house, my wife was 
> using Safari to check news.com.au site last night and it just froze, as it 
> has done many times before over the almost 1 year we’ve had it. My old 
> reliable Windows laptop alongside (2 metres away) I used as a control 
> experiment and was instantly able to get thenews.com.au site up on screen. 
> She Quit Safari and started Safari again with no success. Wireless signal was 
> showing “Excellent” on the Windows machine alongside and minutes before, the 
> Macbook was able to web browse without issue. Ultimately a restart of the 
> Macbook got it going again, but what really was the problem?
>  
> Any tips on when it recurs how I might diagnose the root cause?
>  
> I’d like to download Firefox as a way of removing Safari from the ‘risk 
> register’, but that strategy is a bit archaic to say the least.
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Peter.
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Safari freezes

[Crisp, Peter]

Hi all, last night was the last straw to motivate me to write this. The
Macbook (Snow Leopard) is connected wirelessly in the house, my wife was
using Safari to check news.com.au site last night and it just froze, as
it has done many times before over the almost 1 year we've had it. My
old reliable Windows laptop alongside (2 metres away) I used as a
control experiment and was instantly able to get the news.com.au site up
on screen. She Quit Safari and started Safari again with no success.
Wireless signal was showing "Excellent" on the Windows machine alongside
and minutes before, the Macbook was able to web browse without issue.
Ultimately a restart of the Macbook got it going again, but what really
was the problem?

 

Any tips on when it recurs how I might diagnose the root cause?

 

I'd like to download Firefox as a way of removing Safari from the 'risk
register', but that strategy is a bit archaic to say the least.

 

Thanks.

 

Peter.


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