This whole Safari trouble got me surveying some people around me who use Macs and had upgraded to Safari 5.
My best bud, who has a late-model Airport Extreme, has had no trouble whatsoever. Another fella, who has a router as old as mine, was having the same trouble as I was. On the Internet, posts from Mac help forums users suggested people with no trouble possessed newer-model routers.
While skeptical about this Safari trouble being fixable by hardware, I figured I would sink some money on a new router. (I was going to do it anyhow.)
Lo and behold … all my troubles are gone.
And as a side bonus, I can better wireless throughput and can now print through my router. Just waiting to add a large network drive to back up my data.
But that’s not the point.
Not everyone can go and splurge on a new router just because Apple decided to upgrade their Web browser. Surely there is some software fix for whatever hardware trouble people are encountering.
This brings me back to my original hunch: Someone at Apple needs to add a check box to disable DNS prefetching. My gut tells me that’s been the problem all along. That’s how I “fixed” Chrome when its DNS prefetch feature continually caused my Internet connection to time out.
But is anybody at Apple listening?