By default, Apple’s Safari browser has an Initial Timed Layout Delay of 1 second before any data is parsed and then rendered in the browser. Apple made that a little conservative to say the least. So what you can do is decrease that time to say one fourth of a second. The actual setting is stored in Safari’s preference file, which you will need to edit. Make sure Safari is closed and exited, and then browse to Safari’s preferences file at ~/Library -> Preferences -> com.apple.Safari.plist. You can either open the plist file in the PList editor if you have that installed which I believe comes with XCode’s developer tools, or you can edit it in any text editor. If you open it in the PList editor, add WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay with a value of 0.25. If you are doing this in a text editor, add the following two lines inside of the < dict> tag. Note: Delete the spaces between each “< " and tag.
< key>WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay< /key>
< real>0.25< /key>
For those of you that are terminally-inclined, one line in the terminal will do the same tweak. While Safari is closed and exited, open up a terminal window and enter in the following line:
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I used the Terminal method, and love what that does for Google’s load time. Three-quarters of a second shaved is damn near a second earned. Thanks for the tip.
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nice! :D
that really bugged me that for some reason Safari would have that lag when opening pages. and here i was just thinking that Safari was a laggy browser. :?
now i’ve just gotta close down all my tabs… “it’s never easy!” :P
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DAMN! Everything loads about one hundred times faster now.
You’re th’ bomb, TS.
Cheers,
vb
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Thank’s man. This really worked like a charm.
Pages take MUCH less time to load.
Cheers,
vb
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I think this is the correct way to change the plist from terminal
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay -float 0.25
Ok, this setting is deprecated, so it’s just placebo effect (webkit guys told me)