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Johnbmx26 · Jul 23, 2006, 02:44 PM

Hello,
This is kind of embaressing to say.. but I'm a big myspace person.. But for some reason, whenever I'm looking at a bands website with a player, the beachball always comes up. I went on vacation for 2 weeks and when I came back, this started happening. Anyone know what's going on? It's driving me insane.

I even tried Camino, Firefox, and Opera.. I've gotten the same results. Now I'm guessing it's a Java problem??

It doesn't happen to all myspace pages, only the actual band ones with multiple songs you can stream. Like this, www.myspace.com/sufjanstevens.

Hope you guys can help.

Thanks
John

imitchellg5 · Jul 23, 2006, 03:03 PM

Works fine here, maybe you need more RAM.

Recontech · Jul 23, 2006, 05:18 PM

Happens to me all the damn time and I have 1.5gb of DDR2 memory, and it happens regardless of how few items are running.

Its not memory, its just bad programming. maybe on the part of how myspace does java, or something else, but still, if IE and other windows based browsers are just fine, its BS that our machines can't.

Macs are sooooo cool, they don't even have a good web browser, because you know only the boring guy in a suit will want a good web browser.

imitchellg5 · Jul 23, 2006, 06:00 PM

RAM was what fixed beachballs for me, I have no clue why. Macs do have good web browsers. Try Firefox or Camino.

Recontech · Jul 23, 2006, 06:29 PM

I've tried both of those...and I sure as heck hope that 1.5gb of DDR2 ram on my 1.67ghz G4 powerbook is enough to view simple web pages.

Apfhex · Jul 23, 2006, 07:24 PM

Originally Posted by Recontech

Macs are sooooo cool, they don't even have a good web browser, because you know only the boring guy in a suit will want a good web browser.

No, Mac browsers are generally better, people just need to stop coding for just Win IE.

FYI I have a few friends with Myspace pages and when I try to look at them, they lock up ANY browser that I use (Safari, Firefox, Camino, Opera, IE:Mac, etc etc etc.) except for IE on Windows.

Johnbmx26 · Jul 24, 2006, 12:49 AM

Well the thing is.. it used to work fine. And now it suddenly just stops working. I have 2GB of ram.

Recontech · Jul 24, 2006, 03:38 AM

Myspace may have changed some strange java thing on their end. Have you ever tried to turn off all Java and javascript before going to myspace? Wow, it all looks super different and really nothing works at all.

drainyoo · Jul 27, 2006, 02:13 PM

The problem is MySpace is coded like crap. The site is a disaster and it doesn't work well on Safari.

warra · Jul 27, 2006, 11:17 PM

try cleaning cache and history, those make surfing a bit faster up to a point, then it just slows browsing down.

anilos81 · Aug 21, 2006, 01:59 PM

I have all the same problems listed above, and have tried all the solutions listed above, nothing seems to help. Please post if you have any new ideas...

MrPopman · Sep 22, 2006, 10:44 PM

The thing that solved my Safari beachball issue was in Preferences in the Autofill tab for the 'Other Forms' area to edit it and delete all of the entries. I like the autofill, but do not rely on it for my day to day use (all of my account names and passwords are stored in another application). My hint to try this was that when I pulled up the edit menu and started scrolling through it, I got a beach ball.