I get these circles from time to time in safari and chrome that sometimes go away and then other times, it just stays there forever and it disables everything so I can't force quit. My only solution now is to shut down and re-start which I heard is really bad for my laptop but does anyone else have this problem?
MacBook Pro 15", 10.14
Does this happen when using another browser like Safari or FireFox? Post an Etrecheck report so that we can see what may be impacting your performance. You have not told us anything about your system.
Thank you. Very sad - can I stop plug ins? Or get a prompt?
I think what you're referring to are the 'Wait' cursors, think Hourglass in Windows, showing that the OS or Application is currently active or processing something.
This is normally prevalent when a webpage is trying to or running a plugin in the background which is taking a lot of memory or processor time.
Sadly there are very few fixes for this as it's quite normal operation, not to hard freeze things for extended time but for wait cursors to show up.
Rebooting is not bad for your laptop, however, if you are having this problem outside of just websites it may be a sign of a larger issue with your system.
Hope this helps.
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