Greetings,
Please forgive the lengthy list of symptoms below - I thought that my Safari hangup troubles were in the past, since I learned to empty the cache periodically ( thank you Carolyn Samit) and also stopped accumulating enormous RSS files (thank you chscag) but today a new hangup appeared.
I am running Safari 5.0.6 on OS 10.5.8 and today am having trouble accessing some sites that I used to access with no trouble - and after failing to access the sites in question, Safari is blocked - can't access previous sites - I cannot reopen a previously read page, for example - but if I quit Safari, restart it, then the sites which worked previously still work, until I again try to open a troublesome site. I have just returned home from a trip where Safari worked just fine (I think, but did not use it extensively on the trip) with another airport network and now today on my home network this trouble has appeared. Using Firefox, I am able to access these sites as usual, but I prefer to use Safari.
example: no trouble reading the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/ or the New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/ or wikipedia or google on either Safari or Firefox. However when I tried to access http://www.actblue.com/ ( a frequently used site for me, which goes to https://secure.actblue.com usually with no problem ) Safari did not work and then refused to work for anything else, sometimes a "force quit" required, and after quitting and restarting Safari I was again able to read the New York Times, etc. but the actblue site now only works with Firefox. The site http://www.democracyforamerica.com also does not work with Safari, as it used to, but Firefox has no problem with it. The BBC site http://www.bbc.com/news/ also made Safari hangup (as did other BBC sites such as http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide ) but was accessible with Firefox. What was spooky with the BBC sites is that, after many BBC site hangups, when I turned my router off and on again, Safari was then able to access them - although how a router problem could be disabling for Safari for the BBC sites while enabling Firefox is not imaginable (?). However, turning the router off/on did nothing for the http://www.democracyforamerica.com/ site, which remains inaccessible with Safari (my usual way of access) but not with Firefox.
With the sites in question, Safari just displays "contacting ..." as usual, but never connects.
Does anyone have any suggestions? - With best regards from Switzerland.
Please forgive the lengthy list of symptoms below - I thought that my Safari hangup troubles were in the past, since I learned to empty the cache periodically ( thank you Carolyn Samit) and also stopped accumulating enormous RSS files (thank you chscag) but today a new hangup appeared.
I am running Safari 5.0.6 on OS 10.5.8 and today am having trouble accessing some sites that I used to access with no trouble - and after failing to access the sites in question, Safari is blocked - can't access previous sites - I cannot reopen a previously read page, for example - but if I quit Safari, restart it, then the sites which worked previously still work, until I again try to open a troublesome site. I have just returned home from a trip where Safari worked just fine (I think, but did not use it extensively on the trip) with another airport network and now today on my home network this trouble has appeared. Using Firefox, I am able to access these sites as usual, but I prefer to use Safari.
example: no trouble reading the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/ or the New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/ or wikipedia or google on either Safari or Firefox. However when I tried to access http://www.actblue.com/ ( a frequently used site for me, which goes to https://secure.actblue.com usually with no problem ) Safari did not work and then refused to work for anything else, sometimes a "force quit" required, and after quitting and restarting Safari I was again able to read the New York Times, etc. but the actblue site now only works with Firefox. The site http://www.democracyforamerica.com also does not work with Safari, as it used to, but Firefox has no problem with it. The BBC site http://www.bbc.com/news/ also made Safari hangup (as did other BBC sites such as http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide ) but was accessible with Firefox. What was spooky with the BBC sites is that, after many BBC site hangups, when I turned my router off and on again, Safari was then able to access them - although how a router problem could be disabling for Safari for the BBC sites while enabling Firefox is not imaginable (?). However, turning the router off/on did nothing for the http://www.democracyforamerica.com/ site, which remains inaccessible with Safari (my usual way of access) but not with Firefox.
With the sites in question, Safari just displays "contacting ..." as usual, but never connects.
Does anyone have any suggestions? - With best regards from Switzerland.
