Top Sites: PLEASE permanently disable and remove !

Please explain what you mean when you say it ties up your computer and bandwidth. I've had Top Sites for less than a week and it has definitely sped up my browsing to frequently visited sites. If you have few favorites that you visit repetitively, I can appreciate your disinterest. But is it reducing your computing experience by tying up bandwidth?

Top Site does none of the things you accuse it of in your endless, factually incorrect and technically ignorant rants in many threads in the Safari forum.

Please stop spreading this garbage.

Those who for some reason do not want to continue using the fastest, safest version of Safari (4.0.2) and want to revert back to an older version, rather than find out how to correct their faulty system, can do so by performing an archive and install:

How to Archive & Install:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120

You seem to have a more energetic and autonomous Top Sites feature than I do. Mine is only a cache of the page as I last left it. I haven't seen evidence of any surreptitious updating. Sorry but I don't know of any Run-Amok feature to disable, but I'll be watching mine more closely to see if it gets restless. I may just resurrect that on-line radio feature and listen to a little Fordham U. to see what happens.

I answered your question regarding reinstalling Safari 3 here. Note to others following this thread - this fix applies only to Tiger systems.

Dear people, I believe the easiest way to disable Top Sites permanently is:

Safari
Preferences
Bookmarks
Uncheck “Include Top Sites“

I believe the easiest way to disable Top Sites permanently

You're mistaken. There is a difference between your version of disabling Top Sites, which essentially removes the icon from the Bookmarks Bar, and actually disabling it. The latter stops the file creation process.

If you don't believe me, go to the Finder: Your User Account>Library>Caches>com.apple.safari>Webpage Previews Folder. Have a look inside.

In fact, I'm having a similar problem after the upgrade to 4.02. After a grace period of a couple of minutes post-launch, during which Safari is quiet, it begins to rhythmically and continuously write to my hard disk while consuming about 44% CPU. This never stops.

Neither of the command lines suggested to disable this feature works for me:

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeTopSites -bool FALSE

I want to remove the feature. Should one of the methods above work? If not, is there another method?

Thanks,

David Wheeler

Can't agree more with you - needs a preference option.

Which is: preferences > general > 'select open new window with blank page'.

at last... hopefully stops the thing from eating cpu and stalling or pausing all the time after a day of surfing...

Message was edited by: Matt Hardy