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Speed up a slow Safari under 10.4.2
Authored by: angusm on Jul 28, '05 10:10:42AM

As an alternative, consider using the "Reset Safari" option under the "Safari" menu. This will blow away all of your history entries, your cookies, and your AutoFill texts, so use only if you're sure that that's what you want to do. Less drastically, "Clear History" on the "History" menu should also tame an oversize history file, without requiring you to go to the Terminal.

One thing I've noticed is that if you fill in a lot of forms - for example, if you use a database tool such as 'phpMyAdmin' frequently - Safari will become slow when displaying any page with a form on it. I attribute this to Safari storing a large number of AutoFill texts. Resetting Safari clears the stored texts, and produces noticeably faster page loads on forms pages.

You can also fine-tune AutoFill through the AutoFill tab in Preferences, which lets you delete AutoFill information for specific servers, or to choose not to have Safari remember previously-filled in information from forms at all (which would presumably prevent the problem arising).



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