Beach Ball of Death?

You need to complete your profile with your specific Mac model, Mac OS X version, and version of Safari that you're running so nobody has to guess at this when trying to solve a problem.

If Safari is giving you problems, what site(s) are you attempting to load when it does this, and if it crashes, post the crash report so we can see it. If you installed any third-party Input Managers, they are the most likely cause of trouble, but certainly not the only thing.

me too, beach ball with safari 4.0.3 all the time. and its driving me crazy !! 🙂

is there a place I can check to see if I added something inadvertently?

Check in /Library/InputManagers, Home/Library/InputManagers, and /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins and remove any items you find in those places. Then restart Safari and see if the problem continues. If you have no InputManagers folders, then you have no Input Managers.

Also, what have you selected as your Home Page when you start Safari? Are you using (or do you wish to continue using) the Top Sites and Cover Flow features? Have you tried Resetting Safari?

This really is an annoying problem. Every time I go to the "Top Sites" tab of Safari 4.0.3, I get the beach ball. Sometimes it's a milisecond, the longest is a 5 minute wait. Safari also takes forever to load since I upgraded to 4.0. What gives? I hate to say it, but between Safari V4 and the new Snow Leopard, Apple seems to be more like Microsoft, all these bugs that need fixing. So what do we do to avoid the beach ball of the interminable wait with Safari?

HI,

Since you have updated to SL, try uninstalling and reinstalling the lastest version of the Flash Player plugin. That has been a known issue since the SL update.

Go here to uninstall Flash: 
 http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html




When you are finished uninstalling the old Flash plugin, go here and install a fresh copy
of Flash Player plugin.



 http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/



As with any software installations, repair disk permissions.

Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.

Also, try Safari maintenance.

From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Empty Cache. When you are done with that...

from the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 5 buttons and click Reset.

Restart your Mac and see if that has made a difference.






Carolyn 🙂

I'm having the same problem with Safari 4.0.3 . Very frustrating.

Yesterday I went in to edit my top sites. I just clicked on the X to delete a page, and I got a beachball for over 2 minutes! I was about ready to force quit Safari when it finally came back.

I'm also noticing beachballs in many of my other day to day operations. Maybe they're all related?

Mike

i'm still having the same problem. extremely frustrating.

and i am pretty sure the problem is somehow related to flash. i'm also having this problem with firefox 3.5.3. almost every time i access a web page like cnn.com, or something with a flash movie, i get the spinning beach ball. but i have been seeing the beach ball on other occasions as well. nonetheless, i wish there was a solution to the problem.

I have been having same problem for several days now. Have tried everything listed so far. nothing fixes it. Works fine on some websites, but ALWAYS beach balls on cnn.com and tmz.com.
What's the deal?

I'm having the same issues with Safari. Using Snow Leopard, everything is patched and up-to-date. I've removed plugins and still no improvements. Even on a 1st generation aluminum MacBook Pro 17" Safari is sluggish.

your probably right. might not be an isolated flash issue. not sure if its snow leopard either though. it started happening for a month or so after installing snow leopard. hmmm....

Hello,

I am now having this problem. Beachball constantly appears and hangs everything up. I noticed it when I go to YouTube. I suspected Adobe's Flash player, and downloaded version 9 of that and reinstalled, but that didn't make any difference. I'm puzzled as to why this problem started as I didn't download any software updates, such as Adobe's Flash plugin version 10, which had given my PPC mac problems in the past.

This happens with both Safari (version 4.0.3) Firefox

I clicked on the link for the adobe uninstaller, but the link was not valid, unfortunately.