problem loading images/opening windows - visual memory?

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awalkinthewoods

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Hi,

I am using a macbook pro with snow leopard.

I have a problem where I can't fully load web pages after a certain number have been loaded on my screen (I tend to have 10-20 windows open at a time, as I like to keep email etc open, and open new things I find interesting when browsing to come back to later (since I want to finish what i'm currently doing first). I don't like using tabs because I accidentally click out of them or forget which tab has what on it. At first everything was fine, but after about a year of use like this, I began to have trouble loading pages after a certain amount were already open. Images come up half way (with the other half turning grey) and then stop loading, then pages all together stop loading. The amount of pages I can have open at one time is continually decreasing, and it's down to about 3 now. I am getting worried. I probably should have asked about it sooner... So I have a few questions:

1. Is opening so many windows bad in some way?

2. Am I using up virtual memory? If yes, what does this mean and how do I get it back?

3. Is it a hardware issue (motherboard malfunctionn?)

4. If it's not any of this, do you know what it is/what I should do to fix it?

Thanks, and I hope it wasn't too confusing to read!
 
If the safari reset works, you might want to try a good disk utility such Oynx and run the full suite of utilities including cleaning the browsers caches.Your problem might be that all the browsers caches are full and things are slowing down with all the file swapping that is going on.Running 10 to 20 windows at a time will load any browser cache up.example being that I just cleaned out my firefox cache as it was at its limit of 1.5GB. and things were getting a little flaky.
 
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