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Safari has gone on vacation: getting the spinning beachball all the time
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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Recently, Safari has gone to hell on my system. I've deleted the prefs, the cache, repaired permissions, fscked, etc, but nothing has helped.
It seems to choke on pages that I visit every day. It'll try to load the page and then I'll get the spinning beachball. Eventually I have to force quit.
However, there is sort of a fix for it, but it's not workable, just weird. If I can't visit the page in Safari, I'll open the page in Camino which has no problem. If I immediately visit the page in Safari after having visited in Camino, Safari has no problems with it. It's as if Camino unblocks whatever is blocking Safari.
Anyone know what's causing this?
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Hmm, I disabled Javascript and now many of those problem pages load fast. But isn't Javascript sort of essential? What will I lose if I leave it disabled? Or maybe I should switch to Mozilla.
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I occaisionally have that same problem. Could it just be the actual web page being wierd with Safari for some reason?
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Originally posted by Spliff:
Hmm, I disabled Javascript and now many of those problem pages load fast. But isn't Javascript sort of essential? What will I lose if I leave it disabled? Or maybe I should switch to Mozilla.
Take a nightly Of Camino, they have the exact same source base as mozilla + a pretty Aqua/Cocoa UI.
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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Originally posted by Spliff:
Recently, Safari has gone to hell on my system. I've deleted the prefs, the cache, repaired permissions, fscked, etc, but nothing has helped.
It seems to choke on pages that I visit every day. It'll try to load the page and then I'll get the spinning beachball. Eventually I have to force quit.
However, there is sort of a fix for it, but it's not workable, just weird. If I can't visit the page in Safari, I'll open the page in Camino which has no problem. If I immediately visit the page in Safari after having visited in Camino, Safari has no problems with it. It's as if Camino unblocks whatever is blocking Safari.
Anyone know what's causing this?
Well, I had a problem where Safari was Unexpectedly Quitting on me after <= 15 mins of use, and I tried deleting all the files mentioned in the Apple Support article, to no avail (prefs, /Library/Safari, 2 cookies files). Turned out that getting rid of a bunch of files in ~/Library/Caches did the trick. I'm not sure which particular one was the culprit, but I just deleted everything that wasn't a folder in ~/Library/Caches. The point being that it wasn't anything in ~/Library/Caches/Safari.
So, I dunno, try that maybe.
[edit: it must've been in ~/Library/Caches, since I didn't have the problem logged in as a different user]
(Last edited by slugslugslug; Sep 18, 2003 at 05:43 AM.
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