I updated Safari, and the problem appears to have been solved!

Thanks again for your help.

Juli

Narrowed down is good! I have Javascript enabled, and have checked “always accept cookies.” Should I change these?

Juli

Thanks for your reply. I am running OS X 10.4.11 and Safari 3.0.4 (523.12) . I do have Comcast cable modem.

Looking at the activity window, for this site, it shows 25 items loaded. That’s all, isn’t it?

I have checked other sites, and it seems that this one and gmail are the ones that most consistently have the blue bar. Gmail is now showing 6 of 8 items loaded, and has been spinning it’s little wheel pretty much all day.

I hope this is helpful, and thank again for taking the time to reply.

If you look closer at the Activity Window, are you sure you are seeing 100% of all items loaded?

I’m having the same problem as Bertrand, but the Activity window indicates that the page is completely loaded. As far as I can tell, this happens to most pages. The bar reaches about 75% of the way across, and then just sits there. The pages seem to operate as usual.

Note - I’m technically fairly clueless, so please use simple words. I pay attention, but don’t always get the technical stuff.

A couple potential issues could be your internet connection has them blocked. Google was just having issues and the route to them was dead.

Does it happen on the same site, or all sites? Does it happen on our site, as we run the same google ads?

I watched the ACTIVITY window and noted that the slowness in the URL bar happens whenever a Google type of element appears (very long…). For example (2 ex.):

http://pagead.l.google.com/pagead/ads?c….

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/….

I did not notice regular or consistent improvement with the SPI unchecked, but will try at different times.

Thanks again.

Bertrand

Thank you for the quick reply and indications; I went back to configuring my SMC router (it had been a long time, surviving my various upgrades), and modify certain parameters, per your comments. It seems to correct the problem.

I will keep an eye (or two) on the matter.

Merci encore,

Bertrand

Certain sites, myspace being one of them, are prone to this, and a certain router setting. Routers have a setting called “SPI”, Netgear enables it by default, I am not sure about the rest like Linksys.

The SPI (Stateful Packet Inpection) Firewall protects your LAN against Denial of Service attacks. This should only be disabled in special circumstances.

This has always been a source of exactly the issues you describe to me, taking it off, and I have no issues. I can also say, from a network perspective, it is not entirely needed on a Mac.

Reposted: I have and old keybord (ISO) ordered at Apple Canada. I do not like the aluminium one delivered with the iMac. Mistype errors too easily made, as in the previous post!

I have a strong feeling most people use web mail. Given that a large percentage of our newsletter subscribers use aol, and about the same use yahoo, and about the same use hotmail, yet few use gmail or have email at their own domain, I can say, most people just use the web.

I am a huge fan of local email, and a huge hater of web email, so I know the importance of mail.app and other apps like it.

We will get to it, but first we have to get users to the point where they would even know what a pop or smtp server is.

Thanks for the tip about dropping a URL into mail, you can also use the two menu items in Safari to mail a link, or mail the entire page as well.

Glad you got it worked out.

So, to start, I want to make sure you understand that all this relies on Safari being quit, if you do not, it will generally write back the same corrupt preference data again.

1) Quit Safari
2) Delete same file above: com.apple.Safari.plist
3) In the same area is com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist
While I suspect this has nothing to do with it, move that out as well, you can always put it back
4) At /Library/Caches/Metadata is a folder called “Safari”, this holds bookmark and history data, lets move that elsewhere as well
5) There is also a Folder, “Safari” right in your Library folder, move that aside also.

When I say move aside, I just mean put them on your desktop, or in your trash, just do not empty it. We are going to reset Safari, and you will lose all Safari data, like bookmarks.

If you get it working again, you can slowly add back items until you narrow it down to which was the bad item.

Finally, if that does not do it, it could be some 3rd party tool you installed, do you know any Safari enhancements you have put in?

Once you move all those files out, start Safari and see how it goes.

Start with quiting Safari
Go to your Home folder, into the Library folder, into the Preferences folder, and delete com.apple.Safari.plist

Open Safari, see if that fixes it.

If that does not, we can dig deeper into more of the prefs that Safari holds, but usually, that one will do it.