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Feb 3, 2016 9:40 AM in response to sallcallby Eric Root,Safari 9
Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items. Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Clear History…. The down side is it clears all cookies.Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library./Caches/com.apple.Safari/Caches.db and move it to the trash.
Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.
Safari Corruption See post by Linc Davis
Safari 8
Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items. Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Clear History and Web Site Data. The down side is it clears all cookies.Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library./Caches/com.apple.Safari/Caches.db and move it to the trash.
Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.
Safari Corruption See post by Linc Davis
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Feb 3, 2016 12:37 PM in response to sallcallby BobHarris,sallcall wrote:
Any idea what the multi coloured spinning sphere is, or how to get rid of it?
The spinning sphere appears and it takes ages to disappear when searching on safari
Technically, the beachball means the application has not been looking at its event queue and there are messages waiting to be processed. Events are thing like mouse movements, mouse clicks, keyboard entry, etc... that are sent to the application.
One cause of this for web browsers is if the DNS server is slow (DNS server translates the domain names, such as www.apple.com into IP address). Most DNS servers are provided by the ISP, but the home router frequently acts as a local DNS server for the home and then forwards DNS requests to the ISP's DNS server.
You can experiment with using another DNS server via System Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> DNS -> [+]
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Google DNS
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
If it works, you can keep using them. If it doesn't, you can use the [-] button to remove them.
But if it does work, there is a chance your home router is having problems, and power cycling the home router sometimes clears this up. If this happens a lot and each time a power cycling of the home router clears it up for awhile, then it might be time to consider a new home router. But not unless it is guilty.