[El Magnificante]

Does anyone know when Apple will get this right? Any website that requires JS gives me the lovely beachball
I can work around it by turning JS off but inevitably I'll bounce to a page that requires it. I've done all the tweaking recommended here and elsewhere (FavIcon etc etc) so I'm just wondering if anyone has any info re: when Apple will release a browser that "just works" under OSX.

Thanks.

P.S. I'm using a 17" PB 1.33 1GB RAM (single stick) and the 80GB 5400rpm HD (80% free) if that matters.

[cpac]

Safari (or OmniWeb in my case) *does* "just work" 99% of the time for me - even on javascript pages.

On the rare occasions when it doesn't, it is usually because the code is IE-windows-specific, and so will not work with any browser on the Mac platform.

If you have a specific URL in mind, we can help try to figure out why the site is giving you trouble.

[Chuckit]

This site uses JS, and it doesn't beachball me, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.

[El Magnificante]

eBay for one ...

Every time I do a Search I get the beachball. When I have multiple tabs open and one of them is eBay it beachball when I try to switch tabs.

eBay is the worst case of the JavaScript beachball. When I disable JS via the Preferences the beachball goes away and all is well.

Could it be another setting on my machine??

[cpac]

I don't get any beachballs surfing ebay.

Have you tried clearing your cache, etc.?

[El Magnificante]

Yes, I have cleared the cache and other little tweaks recommended here and OSX Hints. Still get the beachball.

[cpac]

Originally posted by El Magnificante:
Yes, I have cleared the cache and other little tweaks recommended here and OSX Hints. Still get the beachball.

Tried creating a new user and seeing if they get the beachball?

[El Magnificante]

Thank you for that suggestion. I do not get the beachball with the new user.

Is there any way to copy all my settings (dock etc) from one user to another?

Again, many thanks

[TETENAL]

If you copy "all your settings" to the new user, you'd have the same problem there too.

First try to "Reset Safari" from the Safari menu. If that doesn't help try trashing the Safari preferences.

Did you install anything hackish like APEs, Pithelmed, or any Safari enhancers or speed-ups or whatever?

[El Magnificante]

No I don't have any third party (if that's what you mean) apps installed. I'm simply trying to use Safari as it came with my PB.

What do you mean by "trashing" the Preferences?

Thanks

[TETENAL]

<yourhomefolder>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

contains the preferences for Safari. Move it to the trash and see if that fixes the problem.

<yourhomefolder>/Library/Caches/Safari/

is the Safari cache. Trash that as well and also trash

<yourhomefolder>/Library/Safari/Icons/

If nothing of this helps do the following:

Open Safari and prepare it to beachball, i. e. go to a site where you know it happens but don't let it yet. Open Activity Viewer and select Safari in the list. Find the menu Processes->Sample process or note to press ⌥⌘S. Then switch to Safari make it beachball and quickly start sampling in Activity Viewer. Save the sampling information and mail it to Apple. You can also post it here, but there's no guarantee it will help someone to find out what's going wrong. It can't harm to try though.