[geeks] Odd MacOS X issue

[Robert Brooke Gravitt]

You may be able to identify Flash as the culprit by using the  
"clicktoflash" plugin. I use it to prevent flash ads from loading on  
page startup - it speeds load times by a margin on older hardware.

Brooke

On Sep 11, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Ido Dubrawsky wrote:

> My wife's titanium Mac Powerbook is starting to exhibit an odd  
> behavior.
> She's running Tiger on it (fully patched) with Firefox 3.5.3 and as of
> three days ago certain websites have become unbearably slow in  
> loading.
> I have no problems accessing those websites from my systems (Vista  
> SP1,
> XP SP3, or Windows 7 RC) using Firefox 3.5.2 (or even IE8).  I'm not
> 100% sure what the problem is so I'm asking those with more Mac
> knowledge than I.
>
>
>
> I've looked through the system logs and find no errors being thrown.
> The load average looks ok and my wife usually just uses it for Web and
> mail (she uses Mac Mail as well as FF 3.5.3 - no enabled add-ons).   
> This
> slow behavior shows up in both Firefox as well as Safari.  I'm
> considering that it could be an issue with the hard drive (possibly  
> bad
> blocks), memory (less likely as this should manifest itself as a  
> system
> crash), or something in the OS.  I've ordered a new hard drive, memory
> and I'm going to get a copy of Leopard to see if one of those will  
> work.
>
>
>
>
> I'm stumped as to what might be causing it though.  The interesting
> thing though is that when I run my ISP's speedtest (I use SpeakEasy  
> DSL)
> at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest, it does the download test just
> fine (comes out to ~ 1270 kbps) but the upload test never works (it
> works on my Windows systems though).  I'm wondering if it could be a
> problem with the Flash install on the Mac but I'm not sure how that
> would manifest itself.
>
>
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should look at as well?
>
>
>
> Ido
>
>
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