craschworks / [GEEK] How to delete your favicons cache (and possibly speed up Safari)

[GEEK] How to delete your favicons cache (and possibly speed up Safari)

Safari has become unbearably slow, even if I close it and restart. Some people have reported that deleting the favicons caches may make it faster again. The favicons caches are stored in the $HOME/LibrarySafari/Icons directory. Here's how to delete them.

* Close Safari
* Open Terminal
* Type the following command:

find $HOME/Library/Safari/Icons -type f -atime +30 -name “*.cache” -print -delete

This command finds all files (-type f) in your home's Safari icon folder ($HOME/Library/Safari/Icons) that were last accessed more than thirty days ago (-atime +30) whose name ends with .cache (-name “*.cache”), prints each file (-print), then deletes it (-delete).

You might consider adding this command to your crontab.