My 2018 Mini was perfect until Big Sur. When I click on Bookmarks I get a spinning ball and then I can finally scroll down to the bookmark I want.
It looks like it is trying to draw the website icons. Never happened before Big Sur
Mac mini, macOS 11.2
If you have not yet solved your spinning ball problem with safari bookmarks I have a suggestion. I downloaded Big Sur a few days ago on my iMac & got the spinning ball with the bookmarks. It would spin for 4 or 5 seconds before letting go. At the time I had a real large amount of bookmarks. After deleting a large number of bookmarks that I no longer needed the spinning ball only spins for 1 second now. No doubt in my mind after I delete some more bookmarks there will no longer be a spinning ball. Why a large number of bookmarks bothers Big Sur when it never bothered the other OSs I don't know. Hope this helps.
The issue appears to be with drawing the website icons in the bookmark menu. I click on bookmarks and get a spinning ball, while it's spinning I can see the generic website icon then after the website icons (yahoo, gmail, etc) appear it's good to go.
If you have any idea what could be causing this I'm open to suggestions, it's driving me nuts
OK, let's see if this helps. This is just one thread for people having this issue with Safari having trouble drawing the favicons in the Bookmark menu.
I would like a response from Apple letting me know either how to fix the issue or that Apple has been made aware of the issue.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/beach-ball-navigating-bookmarks-in-safari.2280190/
My Jan 29, 2021 post about this.
Preventing the formation of Favicons
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252382776
I performed the offered advice, a couple of times, on the three macs.
No joy!
One Mac - It's my fault.
Two Macs - It's a coincidence.
Three Macs - Apple, there definitely is a problem!
They give advice about removing favicons in tabs which isn't our issue.
I want to be able to either remove favicons in the bookmark menu or even better have Apple look into the issue and fix it.
Getting really fed up with Apple lately, they have become extremely arrogant.
Perhaps I may have been using incorrect terms, so I'll use the terms that are used in Safari help.
I store my bookmarks in six folders.
These folders displayed in the Favourites Bar, that is below the Toolbar, and above the Tab Bar.
Along with the bookmarks stored in those six folders, there are also folders stored within these six folders, and they also contain bookmarks.
After opening one of the folders in the Favourites Bar, I get the beachballs whenever I hover over either a bookmark, or one of the folders within that folder.
Activity Monitor shows the Safari is hanging.
When Safari is beach balling, the computer locks up so bad that not even the dock comes up.
And as mentioned previously, EtreCheckPro on the three Macs, never shows a record of the Safari beachballs/hanging.
This problem arrived on the three Macs, as soon as Big Sur was installed on them.
Again, two of my three iPads that are running the latest OS, and have the exact same bookmarks, and bookmark folders as the three Macs, are operating great. The third iPad runs 10.3.3, but there are no problems with the bookmarks and/or bookmark folders.
This problem also happens with Safari Technology Preview, with the same bookmark folder setup.
It does not happen with any other browser (6) with the same bookmark folder setup, on the three Macs.
If I use the bookmarks shown in the Bookmarks Sidebar, there are no beachballs. The website icons for certain bookmarks that are shown in the sidebar, are the same as those shown for the bookmarks in the favourites bar. This leads me to believe that it's a problem with the favourites bar.
I now realise that having, 'Show website icons in tabs', unchecked, has nothing to do with the 'Favourites Bar' beachballs.
I've used OnyX to remove 'Bookmark icons'.
Are the terms, 'Website icon', 'Bookmark icon', and 'Favicon', interchangeable?
Whatever the correct term is, is there a way to prevent their formation?
Onyx removes bookmark icons? I believe icon and favicon are the same. Did removing them in Onyx help at all in the bookmarks menu?
Nice to see more validation of this issue, notice Apple support seems to have disappeared. Very frustrating
I figure that would help but it shouldn't be an issue, Apple ignoring it is really obnoxious. They also started trying to force me to use 2 factor authorization by leaving a permanent red dot on the notifications icon in the dock. Incredibly annoying.
I'm so fed up with Apple at this point but what is the alternative? I can't stand Tim Cook
Interesting, do they port over changes in Safari technology to regular Safari? It would be nice to have this finally behind us and have my Mini act like it did before. This has been extremely annoying.
I just went to the Bookmarks Menu and it didn't spin but I've had that happen on and off so I'm not getting excited just yet
I have no isues with the same machine and Mac OS.
I didn't realise that this was a poll.
They are ignoring it because not much is wrong.
Reddit threads are like a fence and four ninety year old women.
You have other issue sixth your machine and you need to find out what they are.
So all of us are having an issue with our machine, all of a sudden, after upgrading to Big Sur and you think it's a coincidence?
There is obviously an issue here
I know it is a coincidence.
40 years of experience.
That's ridiculous.
My computer was running great and Safari was fast until I upgraded to Big Sur. Fact
And I've been running Big Sur for two months of beta development and its current public life and have no issues.
I could find a few million other users that also have no issues.
I'm done now.
Safari slow in Big Sur
