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SPINNING RAINBOW CURSOR

SORRY, I COULDN'T FIGURE WHERE TO GO TO POST THIS QUESTION.

SOMETIMES WHEN I SURF THE NET I COME TO WEBPAGES THAT WILL NOT OPEN. MY CURSOR TURNS TO A SPINNING CIRCULAR RAINBOW AND EVERYTHING FREEZES. NO MATTER HOW LONG I WAIT NOTHING CHANGES. I HAVE TO SHUT DOWN THE COMPUTER TO GET IT ALL GOING AGAIN.

WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?

HOW CAN I GET RID OF THE RAINBOW CURSOR AND GET MOVING AGAIN WITHOUT SHUTTING DOWN THE COMPUTER?

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

A1145, Mac OS X (10.4)

Posted on Jan 7, 2006 4:34 PM

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Jan 7, 2006 5:25 PM in response to ARROW

When you get the spinning ball, go to your Apple menu on the far left side of your menu bar at the top of the screen and choose "Force Quit". You will be given a choice of programs to quit, highlight Safari and click on the Force Quit button. (a browser is a program that gets you onto this internet and allows you to visit different sites. Safari come with your Mac, it is the Apple browser, although there are lots of different ones out there, there's no need for me to confuse you with too much information)
Miriam

Jan 7, 2006 5:42 PM in response to Daniel Langer

Arrow --
About the Spinning Cursor --
Do these, after repairing permissions, as Daniel suggested,
and report back.

1. Empty your cache (Under Preferences) & History settings via the Safari menu

2. Trash your Icons Folder:
HD>Users>Home>YourName>Library>Safari -->Icons
Restart Safari and a new folder will be automatically regenerated.
(This folder saves favicons of all the sites you visit. Needs cleaning periodically -- or you can change that file's preferences to "Read Only"
rather than "Read & Write." This will keep it from growing in size.)

About the type size:
Go into Safari Preferences>Advanced.
Under Universal Access, the first box:
"Never use font sizes smaller than . . ."
Try larger sizes than what's there now.
Click the checkbox and put in 12, 14, or
whatever makes it easier for you to read in Safari.

Let us know how you're doing, OK?

Jan 7, 2006 4:53 PM in response to ARROW

A couple of things; first, when you post, please don't use CAPS, it is akin to shouting, second, have you tried to force quit your browser? Which browser do you use? (by the way, the spinning cursor is affectionately known as the spinning beach ball or pizza of death).
Miriam

Jan 7, 2006 5:12 PM in response to MGW

Sorry about the caps thing. I forgot this etiquette but my vision is not too good even with glasses and especially worse since I got this Mac. No matter what I do everything is smaller than it was on my dell. I went into preferences and made it as large as I could, even with this 20 inch screen! And we use all caps at my work due to vision issues with many....anyway...

To me the pizza of death reflects more about how i feel about it.

I don't even know what a browser is. How do I find out? In all the manuals that came with this thing the word browser is not indexed. Ah! Could it be Safari? I have Safari. There. What now, please...

Jan 8, 2006 4:19 AM in response to TildeBee

Thank You all for your relpies. I have printed them out and and will try them the next time this pizza of death happens.

Since it only happens when I visit webpages and then it only seems to happen when I move further into a website I thought that maybe it is something about imac, that it is not set up to go everywhere that a windows type system can.

I don't even know if I'm using the right words. Guess I will have to take a tutorial.

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