iMac is slowing down. Any suggestions?

[RandySF]

iMac tends to slow down on occasion, especially Safari. Any suggestions on fixing the issue?

[freshwest]

1. I wish I knew. I just updated my Safari browser because it was working at dial up speed. Firefox...

Is working fine, even though mine has a few thousand bookmarks. I've installed adblocker with NoScript which speeded up Firefox and enabled a PopUp stopper with Safari.

It's become a real trial, so I empty the cache as often as possible. It used to be much faster, though. I'm also clearing out gig as fast as I can on the iMac to see if it helps.

Anything other than that, IDK, except I've found also that shutting down Safari and starting up again resets something and it works faster. Try those things if you haven't already, empty the cache, shut it up, update Safari.

If you come up with something better, please post it here.

[rocktivity]

2. Try Firefox -- I use it pretty much exclusively

Failing that, you should invest in something like CleanMyMac and use it once a month -- even if it means swallowing your pride!


rocktivity

[Auggie]

3. Did you try a restart?

And did run disk utility?

[Lost-in-FL]

5. Yes, check/repair your permissions in disk utility

Check this article: Using Mac OS X, how do I repair permissions, and what does that do?

http://kb.iu.edu/data/aoxn.html