RE: Safari freezes

2010-10-20 Thread Crisp, Peter
...@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 a

Re: Safari freezes

2010-10-19 Thread 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 you

Re: Safari freezes

2010-10-19 Thread 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

Safari freezes

2010-10-19 Thread 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