How to stop Safari from freezing: cool easy fix

[tuqqer]

For the past week, Safari (Version 4.0.3 (6531.9) has been freezing. A lot, like 6 times a day. I do a lot of opening up 30 or more windows at a time (via the Auto-click feature in the Bookmarks). Normally, no problem. But for the past week, some URLs would just make everything freeze and I'd have to Force-quit.

Yesterday, I found an interesting suggested fix over at MacOSXHints. Basically, you delete a file called database.sqlite located in Home/Library/PubSub/Database.

Once I did that, I haven't crashed in the past 30 hours or so.

[RAMd®d]

I tried using your link's hint about Library » PubSub » Database » database.sqlite3 but couldn't find a PubSub folder.

Am I not looking in the right place or is it a hidden folder?

[RAMd®d]

My Safaris is Version 4.0.3 (4531.9).

[guitarist]

I do a lot of opening up 30 or more windows at a time (via the Auto-click feature in the Bookmarks).

I'm curious, what's the benefit of doing this?

[DP]

Me, too. Why have so many windows open anyway?

[tuqqer]

DP wrote:
Me, too. Why have so many windows open anyway?

Just speed. I have two sets of bookmarks set to Auto-click. One's filled with techie news sites, the other videos sites like Digg's movies, Metacafe, etc.

While all the pages are loading up, I start on the left-most tab, read what I want. If there are any links that interest me, I Command-click on them, which loads them on the far right side of the tabs for later viewing. Once I'm done with this page, I hit Command-W, which closes the page and moves me to the next tab. Rinse and repeat.

It's a very fast way to get through a lot of info, and never any waiting for page loading.

[guitarist]

Opening 30 pages at once for convenience sake -- first I've heard of it.

I hope you don't do the same thing when you go to a books store, magazine rack, or cafeteria, and make selections.