MacOS – Safari 7.0 Very Slow since move to Mavericks

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Since Upgrading to Mavericks Safari 7.0 is extremely slow. Pages are slow to load, and there is a district Lag when typing into an internet page, you end up typing on the keyboard well ahead of whats actually appearing on the screen?

I use highlight and drag and copy paste within a web browser for work and this has become almost impossible to do without getting extremely frustrated in its low response time?

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a simple solution with reference to a plug-in or feature after upgrade?

After getting to really like Safari I am looking at moving to Firefox or Chrome after this update has rendered it useless and frustrating!

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This seems to have helped me a lot. Its still too early to say for sure, but initial results are very promising. Just to be clear what I did, I have attached a screen grab...

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The only way I can think of is to add the Logitech Control Center app in the list of app which launched at startup.

Preferences < Accounts < Login Items
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But considering the fact it takes your Mac about a minute to load this app, I'm guessing the app is already in the list.

The fact that you have to wait a minute or so means your Mac is still booting (and loading all the software). I can't think of a way to increase this speed beside adding a faster drive or adding more RAM. But that's quite radical (and expensive) just to make your boot process a tiny bit faster.

An other thing you can do to speed up the boot process is to limit the apps your Mac has to open automatically (so it will get to the Logitech Control Center faster) and to clear your desktop (so you Mac don't have to waste time and RAM by loading all these icons and shortcuts).
This and more tips, are listed in this (rather old) article.

MacOS – Safari 7.0 cannot load localhost

I believe this is a problem with WEBrick v1.3. WEBrick isn't returning the correct content length & notifies users of this:

WARN Could not determine content-length of response body. Set content-length of the response or set Response#chunked = true

Trying to wget the same resource will also flag an error in the network connection as per: https://github.com/imathis/octopress/issues/1395

Chrome & Firefox just display whatever content was received & don't worry about the mismatch in content length. Safari, starting with Safari 7.0 on Mavericks' 10.9 is stricter about the response & treats the mismatch as a "Failure to load resource" error. (If I had to guess they're probably trying to improve the speed so don't retry the resource and so don't get the file fully retrieved response that wget does).

If you replace WEBrick with thin, this problem should go away. To do this on a Rack-based application try:

echo gem \"thin\" >> Gemfile
bundle install
rbenv rehash # if you're using rbenv
bundle exec rackup -s thin

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