2 questions: one about textedit and one about safari

bonsai1214bonsai1214
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
1. is there a way to create a .txt file natively? its kind of strange that it doesn't make such a common file type



2. i remember reading somewhere a while ago that there was a terminal command to speed up the rendering speed on safari. is there a way to jump up speed any more?



thanks

~alex

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 6
    gongon Posts: 2,437member
    1. "Make Plain Text" from the Format menu. After that you're working with plain text and saving .txt as default. You can also set plain text to be the default for new documents from the Preferences.



    2. While there are ways to tune most browsers, they usually don't just "speed them up". There's always some kind of tradeoff. Otherwise, why wouldn't they enable that setting in an update to deliver better browsing to everyone? You can check e.g. macosxhints.com for Safari speed tuning.
  • Reply 2 of 6
    aegisdesignaegisdesign Posts: 2,914member
    IIRC the setting to speed up Safari just changed the time that Safari waited before drawing unstyled content (ie. content before it had loaded the style sheet). It didn't actually slow Safari down at rendering the entire page, it just stopped you getting pages in timesroman with blue/purple links and no backgrounds.



    They removed the delay in Safari 1.3/2.0 yet the myth of the Safari speed up setting persists just as the stupid repair permissions before/after an update myth does too.
  • Reply 3 of 6
    bonsai1214bonsai1214 Posts: 74member
    thanks for the quick replies guys.
  • Reply 4 of 6
    teedoff087teedoff087 Posts: 348member
    If you really want to speed up your loading times in Safari, look no further:



    OpenDNS.
  • Reply 5 of 6
    aegisdesignaegisdesign Posts: 2,914member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by teedoff087 View Post


    If you really want to speed up your loading times in Safari, look no further:



    OpenDNS.



    That depends on if your DNS provider is worse than OpenDNS or not. With some ISPs it's better.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by aegisdesign View Post


    They removed the delay in Safari 1.3/2.0 yet the myth of the Safari speed up setting persists just as the stupid repair permissions before/after an update myth does too.



    Precisely.
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