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Safari - beach ball - are you kidding me?

new.chaos said:
By the way I plan to keep using Firefox. I miss some OS integration that Safari gives but Firefox on the whole is much more flexible and functional. And most importantly it just works without the beach balls.

I'd like to see Apple implement XUL and Mozilla do WebKit but this ain't a perfect world. Firefox it is.

By the way I would highly suggest to anyone having this issue to just move on with Firefox. I've reported this issue up to Apple many times to no avail. If you take it to a Genius bar, it's a colossal waste of time. They'll do the basic stuff you expect them to do when they put it on the bench. Hardware scans, etc. They'll hand it back to you with the problem unfixed, with some note saying they couldn't reproduce it.

Best of luck.
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Same with me. When Windows friends complain about IE, I give them a link to Firefox. I use Safari and to me, seems much faster than Firefox. Firefox is only useful when you start using add ons. Only thing that Safari sort of lacks. I never get a beachball on Safari unless I load a bunch of flash sites (which happens like once or twice a year). But then again, Firefox also beach balls loading those same flash sites.
 
I have to add my 2 cents here.

I have the same problem for several weeks now. I use Safari "as-is", with no extra plugins installed (except the ones that come with OS X). Whenever I load any website, the website loads pretty fast, but as soon as it is loaded, the beachball appears and I can't click any links on the page for several seconds. Usually the speedball goes away after a few seconds, but sometimes it doesn't. I don't run any other programs in the background.

I tried everything from clearing the browser cache, disabling all plugins and even reinstalling OS X. No solution yet.
 
In my experience, not necessarily an attempt to solve your problem*

When I had Transmission and Safari running at the same time, most of the time it's not a problem. But when Transmission is downloading from a seeder with a REALLY fast download speed (1+ MBps), Safari slows down a lot. It gets even worse if I did not cap my upload, and am uploading at a high speed as well.

*insurance against your "Epic Comeback", thankyouverymuch.
 
ravenvii said:
In my experience, not necessarily an attempt to solve your problem*

When I had Transmission and Safari running at the same time, most of the time it's not a problem. But when Transmission is downloading from a seeder with a REALLY fast download speed (1+ MBps), Safari slows down a lot. It gets even worse if I did not cap my upload, and am uploading at a high speed as well.

*insurance against your "Epic Comeback", thankyouverymuch.
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slow speed is completely different from beachballing.
el3ktro said:
I have to add my 2 cents here.

I have the same problem for several weeks now. I use Safari "as-is", with no extra plugins installed (except the ones that come with OS X). Whenever I load any website, the website loads pretty fast, but as soon as it is loaded, the beachball appears and I can't click any links on the page for several seconds. Usually the speedball goes away after a few seconds, but sometimes it doesn't. I don't run any other programs in the background.

I tried everything from clearing the browser cache, disabling all plugins and even reinstalling OS X. No solution yet.
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which version of safari are u using?

4.0 beta may have problems like beachballing, crashing. released version should be more stable.
 
I know this is an old thread, but I'm suffering the same problems. Any updates ?
 
Ol!ver said:
I know this is an old thread, but I'm suffering the same problems. Any updates ?
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I never had the problem with Safari 3(excepting circumstances where the cache was highly fragmented on slow drives, but Reset Safari would help you determine that). I did see some beachballs in Safari 4, but I'm wondering if they were just a one time thing after the upgrade.

For people who have been having this problem awhile, I would suggest you explore disk issues. Have you run Repair Permissions? Have you booted from your OS X DVD and run Repair Disk? If all that checks out, you might still have a hard drive problem, or it could be something else entirely.

Separately:
Reading the rest of this thread, I was once again awed by Apple fans ability to avoid reality. What does it matter whether Safari is $0 or $2000? As Sun told us 20+ years ago, The Network Is The Computer. And the web browser is the primary bridge between linking that thing on your desk to the real computer, The Network. If Safari is slow The Computer is slow. Don't just Think Different, Apple fans: Just think!
 
Ah! I've had/seen this problem! All I can contribute is that Transmission has some weird issue that causes a slow death in Mac. (There is a thread about it in the Transmission forums). uTorrent is a great alternative even though it is in beta (try not using Transmission for a week and see if the computer gets better).

Good luck!
 
1.) I don't know how old this thread was.

2.) It was entertaining to read.

3.) I'm having the same problem.

4.) Sorry to bump this if it is old, but I'm looking for a solution too! I get the beach ball randomly every 5-10 minutes for a good 30 seconds! Help!
 
Allow me....
Go to your Finder.
Search for Bookmarks.
Go to your Bookmarks folder - make sure it's the Safari one.
Open your Bookmarks folder and click one of your bookmarks.
This will open Safari without the spinning beach ball and the frozen screen.
You will now be able to use Safari safely.
Also once you quit Safari you will able to restart it and it will work fine without doing the bookmark trick.
Works like a charm. :)
 
any REAL fixes? I'm thinking a fix for this would be a fix for me. But my issue is while using Safari it'll get beach balls and at times will beach ball overnight and having to force quit and restart it to use it anymore.

10.6 fully updated everything, no plugins other then flash etc.

all the suggestions for firefox, chrome opera are great... but something is broken. When I want to use my toaster oven I'd like to use my toaster over, not get suggestions to use my microwave even if it is better for some things.
 
thebrack said:
any REAL fixes? I'm thinking a fix for this would be a fix for me. But my issue is while using Safari it'll get beach balls and at times will beach ball overnight and having to force quit and restart it to use it anymore.

10.6 fully updated everything, no plugins other then flash etc.

all the suggestions for firefox, chrome opera are great... but something is broken. When I want to use my toaster oven I'd like to use my toaster over, not get suggestions to use my microwave even if it is better for some things.
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Preferences > AutoFill > (uncheck everything)

Let us know how that works out.

If that doesn't do it, here are some other things to try:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10328447-263.html
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10354948-263.html
 
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