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Safari: hanging with the beachball.

So, I'm using a Macbook Pro and recently installed Safari 4, but this has been happening even before with Safari 3, so I'm putting it here.

The problem s quite simple really, I'm getting a spinning beachball nearly every single time I open a new link in a new tab (apple + click link), and it's driving me crazy. I have the surfing habit of going to a page and opening several links from there in new tabs and then reading them, and it gets really annoying when you have to wait 4-6 seconds each time you open a new link in a new tab.

It's also hanging a lot when scrolling average sized pages that are heavy on images. I know that's kinda normal, but as a long, long time Mac user I can tell you that it is abnormally frequent.

Any help?

Macbook Pro 2.2 GHz, 2 GB SDRAM, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Mar 9, 2009 10:47 AM

22 replies

dmilazzo

Level 1

9 points

Oct 1, 2009 4:04 PM in response to rejohnsonil

Rejohnsonil....hope it stays fixed for you. Not to cast a dark shadow, but you said it's worked before only to return after a few hours. Just curious, what makes you feel different this time?

Also, fyi in response to the post about which version of Onyx, I'm still running Tiger, so none of my experiences necessarily relate to Leopard/Snow Leopard.

Best.....

Oct 1, 2009 4:39 PM in response to dmilazzo

well, it's been all day now and not one beachball. i should've said that "within a couple hours max" it beachballs.

this morning, over, and over (even after re-booting) it would come back within a few minutes. so it was a good start for this morning's behavior.

now i'm really convinced i'm beyond the worst of it!

thanks again.

Oct 3, 2009 9:10 AM in response to Garrett Bryant

Hi
We have problems with a hanging beachball on the www.nike.com - go through to Canada as a country. It simply hangs and we have to force quit every time. I have reset Safari and have tried it on different users. I selected Never on RSS and do not have a Syndication file. No matter what I have tried the problem persists. The website is accessible no problem on a PC and other websites work fine on the Mac. It makes no sense to me. I know next to nothing about computers and less about Macs than PC's. So if you have suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it but they will have to be Instructions for Mac Dummies please. Thanks

Oct 3, 2009 9:48 AM in response to Garrett Bryant

Same thing here, but I'm not sure if it's a Safari 4 thing or a Snow Leopard thing.

Oct 3, 2009 10:05 AM in response to Michael Wolfe 416

I do not have snow leopard.

imbiroy

Level 1

0 points

Oct 5, 2009 7:02 AM in response to Garrett Bryant

i have read many beachball issue and i have follow all of them.. but it seem still not working for me? what is wrong with my macbook pro, i have my mac white which is working fine, i have tryied repair permission/delete cache/cookies everything. yet beachball still comes out. but when i disconnected the mac to the net. the beach ball wont come out. as long that i want to browse the net the beachball comes out.

i have try and search for the 2 RSS files as mention 1 is around 50mb and other around 150mb. i was not able to located it.

Oct 6, 2009 10:00 AM in response to Garrett Bryant

I'm having the same problem (under Tiger), apparently after I come from Top Sites and waiting for a page to load.

I reset Safari, and run Cocktail to do the crons and repair permissions. This latter seems to have fixed the problem for some days, and then the spinning ball appeared again.

I have no .broken files in the Syndication folder. I guess it is something Safari breaks during the use.

Very, very annoying.

Paolo

Safari: hanging with the beachball.