[Westfoto]

I am have one heck of a time with Safari on my G4 533 DP.

I am getting the spinning rainbow of death any time that I click on anything in Safari.

I have "Fixed Permissions" and restarted many times.
I have also only run Safari after doing the above.

I still get the spinning rainbow at this point it just about makes it unuseable on the G4.
I am not getting these problems on my Powerbook as much (it does happen, but rarely).

I have all of the updates for the system and software.

Thanks for any help y'all can give me.

West

[TETENAL]

Remove all Safari hack add-ons and see if the problems persists.

If it does not help sample Safari (Activity Monitor->View->Sampe Process) and post the result.

Doe this happen with one particular site only or everywhere?

[Tiresias]

I believe the correct term is: "The spinning beach ball of death."

[Westfoto]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Remove all Safari hack add-ons and see if the problems persists.

If it does not help sample Safari (Activity Monitor->View->Sampe Process) and post the result.

Doe this happen with one particular site only or everywhere?

It has been happening everywhere, particulary when I have several tabs or multipule windows with tabs; ie. one window with mac news, one window with Photo stuff; ect.

[Westfoto]

Originally Posted by minty

I believe the correct term is: "The spinning beach ball of death."

Thanks for the correction. . . . I did not think I had that term right.

[Randman]

Empty cache, decativate cache, empty flavicons, delete unread RSS feeds, edit down and turn off Autofill > Others, try Pithhelmet to manage animated gifs.

Quit Safari now and then as it does have a memory leak, especially when QuickTime is involved.

[Westfoto]

Originally Posted by Randman

Empty cache, decativate cache, empty flavicons, delete unread RSS feeds, edit down and turn off Autofill > Others, try Pithhelmet to manage animated gifs.

Quit Safari now and then as it does have a memory leak, especially when QuickTime is involved.

Thanks for the suggestions

[Diggory Laycock]

I had the same problem recently - loading absolutely any page would lock-up the UI until that new page was loaded - It made the app unusable, and me switch to Camino.

A couple of weeks later I started using a Webkit nightly build - oddly it didn't have the same problem.

Then a couple of days ago I updated to a more recent webkit nightly - and it was a bit weird (loaded pages would appear scrolled to the bottom.) This was mildly annoying, so I tried going back to Safari proper - and I'm still using it, since it seems to have cured itself.

I have no idea why this was - but perhaps it has something to do with me viewing a ludicrous amount of web pages every day (been avoiding work recently.) Perhaps Safari's history cache can bring the app to its knees if it's too large.