[PacHead]

Anybody else have this same problem ? I'm trying to find out if this is a bug or if it's some setting/preference that I don't know about, although I have looked through all of the options/preferences.

This happens with Safari on two macs I have, a powerbook and a g4. Both run the latest/greatest/newest version of panther.

When surfing with safari, when I move my cursor to the top of the screen, where the buttons are in safari (back arrow, forward arrow, refresh, home etc.), sometimes, but not always, the cursor just disappears. I have to move it down again and back a few times, since its kind of hard to hit the back arrow, if I can't see where I'm pointing.

I also find Safari extremely slow to react. I often get the message when I'm clicking through some links quickly - "this webpage failed to load blah blah blah". If I click a second time - the link loads fine.

Also, is there anyway to color code my links I already have clicked on in safari like in IE ?

I'm not trying to bash safari or anything, but it sure seems to be very minimal and beta in my experience.

[zachs]

Originally posted by PacHead:
Anybody else have this same problem ? I'm trying to find out if this is a bug or if it's some setting/preference that I don't know about, although I have looked through all of the options/preferences.

This happens with Safari on two macs I have, a powerbook and a g4. Both run the latest/greatest/newest version of panther.

When surfing with safari, when I move my cursor to the top of the screen, where the buttons are in safari (back arrow, forward arrow, refresh, home etc.), sometimes, but not always, the cursor just disappears. I have to move it down again and back a few times, since its kind of hard to hit the back arrow, if I can't see where I'm pointing.

Try deleting the cache at ~/Library/Caches/Safari. I don't have this problem...have you updated to the latest version (1.2.1 v125.1)?

I also find Safari extremely slow to react. I often get the message when I'm clicking through some links quickly - "this webpage failed to load blah blah blah". If I click a second time - the link loads fine.

Yeah, that happens with some sites for some weird reason. I have no idea what it is.

Also, is there anyway to color code my links I already have clicked on in safari like in IE ?

I'm not trying to bash safari or anything, but it sure seems to be very minimal and beta in my experience.

I don't believe so. At least, I haven't found a way.

[thePurpleGiant]

You wouldn't be referring to the feature of Mac OS X whereby the cursor will disappear when you type, or scroll with the keyboard would you?

By default (and I don't think you can turn it off), when you start to type in any program, the cursor will disappear. The same would happen in Safari if you started to scroll the page up or down with the up or down arrows, the cursor would disappear.

Just thought I'd check this first, before you go trashing prefs and the like

[macfly]

actually i have had this happen as well. i thought i was going crazy the first time. usually it was when the top of the browser was flush with the menu bar. running the cursor anywhere in the top part of the browser made it disappear. the only thing that seemed to make it stop was repairing permissions. something got corrected and it seemed to get rid of the problem. have seen it happen a couple of times.

[PacHead]

Hey, thanks for all the suggestions, the problem seems to be solved.

I do regularly repair permissions (about once a week or when i install new software), but after repairing earlier today, the cursor does not disappear in Safari anymore, so there obviously is a correlation between the two. Next time my cursor disappears in Safari, I know what I will immediately do, inorder to fix the problem.