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This Fox News site nearly kills Safari

I think it is just a very heavy web page. It loaded up very quickly on my internet connection, practically the same speed in Safari, Opera and Firefox.

Do you have a fast internet connection?
 
T1 - I'm at the office but it locked my other Safari sessions with the Pizza whilst loading... that was my concern... I think they tried to be too clever. I just tested it in IE on VMWARE and it's the same load time but doesn't freeze my other IE sessions. I rarely see anything on the Apple that isn't true multi-threading/tasking so this was a surprise.. pointing to a bug or something!!
 
Hmm, interesting it loaded on my Safari perfectly and fast, no beachball, no delay. Although I don't know what this "Pizza" thing the OP is referring to??
 
HLdan said:
Hmm, interesting it loaded on my Safari perfectly and fast, no beachball, no delay. Although I don't know what this "Pizza" thing the OP is referring to??
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+1.

Loaded fine, I couldn't scroll for about 2 seconds (I think a beachball was in the process of being inflated) then the page finished loading and I was able to use Safari again.

Does have a hell of a lot going on at once on that webpage though, so you'd half expect a beachball.
 
It didn't even cause the beachball on my slow eMac... I could also scroll the whole time. I guess it's just my fast internet connection.

Edit: I should probably add I'm using Safari too.
 
works perfectly fine.. actually im suprised that its pretty quick

computer specs below
i have time warner cable (which sucks)
connected to my airport express N
 
Neil321 said:
That's the only logical thing i could think off * it locks up safari for up to 30 seconds with the PIZZA* what else could it be ? i don't see pizza's flying around on that site
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Ah I see, nobody has referred to it as such. It's traditionally known as ball used on the beach. :)

Yes, mine does that if I try to scroll before the page loads. It's a complex page and Safari's rendering engine probably works differently then other browsers so you have to wait for the page to load. Mine loaded in 4 seconds.

Edit: I just tried the same thing in I.E.7 and got the hour glass when I tried scrolling before the page fully loaded. It's not just Safari.
 
I'm surprised no-one's said this yet, but one solution to your problem is going to a site that provides real news. :D
 
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