[DM-MUG] Slow Safari

[Matthew W.]

Mostly likely Safari 2 in Tiger (10.4) is requiring more memory to  
run (the whole system does). It's also supporting, and rendering,  
more Web standards or Java code than Safari 1.x in Panther. A clean  
install of Safari under 10.4 on the same hardware as 10.3 should be  
compatible with more sites, not fewer, and though I've not done side- 
by-side testing, I'd hazard a guess that it should also be faster  
rendering pages. However, running on each of these Macs that you've  
mentioned is not going to be a speedy proposition and if you're  
running the same amount of RAM you may get lower performance. You  
should have at least 512, and optimally 1 GB for 10.4. You'd be  
surprised at how much the CPU is responsible for rendering Web code too.

Matthew

On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:31 PM, lokitmort at netscape.net wrote:

> Does anyone know why Safari seems to run slower in OS10.4 than in  
> 10.3 ?
>
> I've had a family pac of 10.4 for over a year but haven't used it  
> much because of the problems it gives us on the web.
>
> I first loaded it on a 450 G4 and my wife made me put it back to OS  
> 10.3.9 after a week.
> Last winter we got a Qwiksilver G4 and put 10.3.9 on it first.   
> About a month ago I installed 10.4 and now she says Safari is very  
> slow and says it can't find the server a lot of the time.
>
> I picked up a G5 thinking it would be better since everything is  
> faster but it isn't.
>
> We have 4 Mac's on a network with the older-slower ones on 10.3.9  
> and they blow the G5 away on the net
>
> Can anyone give some suggestions?
>
> Mort
>
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