I am not sure why but all of a sudden scoobynet and autotrader will not work on my mac mini using safari? They work fine on IE but I am so used to safari i would rather it worked on there

Any idea's ?

 

In what way do you mean "won't work"?

What version of the Mac OS are you running? What version of Safari are you running?

I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.3 and Safari 2.0.2 (416.13) and I can view SN and Autotrader with no problems at all.

 

Hi,
I am running osx 10.3.9 and safari 1.3.1 , auto trader will not load anthing but the top banner and scoobynet will not load anything but the welcome page. When you click the forum tab it just starts to load then freezes

 

OK, first thing I would do is clear the cache and history in safari, then quit and relaucnh safari and see if you can access SN and Autotrader.

If that fails, quit safari, then go into Applications, then Utilities, then run Disk Utility. Select the hard drive and click "repair permissions". Let it run through, then reboot the machine, then try running Safari again.

 

Sounds like the old days of Microsoft software clear this, clear that, set this, set that, reboot etc.

 

Right i have done all that and its the same? Anything else you can think of?

 

I've just tried my 10.3.9 machine running Safari 1.3.1 (v312.3.1) and I can get to SN and Autotrader with no issues.

Try trashing any cookies you have for SN and Autotrader sites. To do this, go into Safari's preferences, select "Security" then "Show Cookies" look in the website column for any cookies that have scoobynet or autotrader in their names, and select them and click "remove".

Then quit and relaunch Safari and see if that makes any difference.

 

Nope just done that and still no different , Thing is it was working fine yesterday and i have not changed anything!

 

Well, sounds like something is corrupted. If you run SoftwareUpdate does it list any updates? especially anything for safari or the OS, if so, then download the updates and see if it makes a difference.

Some other things to try:

Go into Home -> Library -> Caches -> Metadata and remove/rename the Safari folder

Go into Home -> Library and remove/rename the Safari folder (this might kill bookmarks so you might want to rename it so you can go back to it)

Go into Go into Home -> Library -> Preferences and rename/remove the com.apple.safari.plist file.

Then relaunch safari and see if it makes any difference.

 

Right i have tried everything above... one thing i have just noticed is that when the pages freezes half way through loading if i push the stop button it will bring up the page?

Any idea's?

 

Hi,

Never come across this before but try MacOSXHints.com, I did a search there and there does seem to be some promising leads so have a look at the following URL

http://www.macosxhints.com/search.ph...ch&keyType=all

hope it helps.

Rich

 

Ok i have tried everything i can find but it still wont work Anyone else got any ideas? Thanks for all your help so far

 

Have a look on the CD's that came with the machine, see if there is an "optional installs" item, if so, run it and see what is in there. If it lists applications, see if Safari is one of them. If it is, then delete safari from your Applications folder, and use the optional installer to reinstall it. It's possible the safari app itself is corrupted.

Once you have installed it, run software update and get any updates for safari.

 

Just had a quick search and found a few urls you might want to look at:

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:...&client=safari

http://macosx.com/content/faq.php/q1...ally-Slow.html

 

Thanks Marcus i will try those ones