Category Archives: Safari 5.1
Transmission – Port is closed
I don’t often get into 3rd-party software or non-Mac hardware issues, but here’s a little trick I discovered today that could prevent a situation that adversely affects Safari and other network software.
Not so long ago I bought a new router, and everything was working fine. However, when I recently fired up Transmission, I found that not only were my downloads not so fast as I’d normally expect, but that all internet browsing was completely throttled. Basically, Safari would just get stuck half way into loading a page and eventually timeout. Killing Transmission would immediately restore Safari’s connectivity.
Looking in Transmission’s preferences ‘Network’ pane revealed that the port was either closed (red button) or the port could not be checked (yellow button). Now there are a number of reasons this can happen, but since I knew nothing had changed except my router since the last time Transmission was successfully used, I decided to go check out some of the router’s settings.
To do this, quit Transmission if it’s running, then enter your router’s IP address in Safari’s search bar. Typically, this will be something like 192.168.1.1
, but if you’re not sure, you can find your router’s IP using my free utility ‘FastTasks‘.
Once you’re in your router’s admin pages, look for Advanced network settings. In my router, I found a bunch of firewall and network protocols (see the first screenshot below). Neither disabling NAT
nor UPnP
had any effect (those were my first thoughts about the likely culprit), but turning off the ipSec PassThrough
option sure did, with the upshot that Safari and Transmission are not only playing nicely together again, but Transmission’s download speeds have markedly improved. 🙂
Here’s the settings I used to get back up and running; see if you can find similar options if you’re experiencing the same problem.
Turning off ‘ipSec PassThrough’ in my Router’s Advanced Settings:
block MacKeeper and other browser ads
Generally, I like to keep browser extensions down to a minimum, but here’s an essential one if you are tired of all those ‘Clean your mac’ / ‘Speed up your mac’ ads on every website you visit. Download and install the Safari adblock extension from here:
What I like about this particular adblocker is that, if you go with the default filters, not only does it load your pages faster but it also reformats the page as if the ads were never even there, rather than leaving unsightly, blank placeholders in the page as some other ad filtering services do.
The extension is free, though you’re encouraged to donate if you appreciate the work done by the developer. 🙂
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java not working on Lion
Unlike previous OS X iterations, Java does not come installed by default on Lion OS X. Instead, you need to download it and enable it.
First, check to see whether Java is installed by running this command in Terminal.app
java -version
If you don’t get a version number back, then you need to go here first and download the Java update from Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1515
Once Java is installed, then you need to enable it. In your Applications > Utilities folder, you should find the Java Preferences.app. Double click on that, and in the ‘General’ tab, click the enable checkbox at the top (see screenshot above).
Java working! 🙂
turn off auto paging in Safari
Jul 24
Posted by philastokes
Having problems with Safari loading more than one page when you click a link? In blogs like WordPress, clicking on the ‘comments’ link can cause Safari to behave a bit oddly, only loading the comments briefly before loading more than one page onto the screen.
If you’re having this problem, try turning off the auto-page extension tool. Go to the Safari menu at the top of the screen, next to the Apple logo. Click the menu and chose ‘Preferences…’. Click the Extensions tab. Look for ‘AutoPagerize’ in the list on the left hand side. Click it, and un-check the ‘Enable’ box. Job done!

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