Safari doesn't work with yahoo mail: always getting beach ball

Could be a third party Safari add on causing the beachballs, troubleshooting help here > Safari: Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues

You can use the Console app (Applications/Utilities) to help troubleshoot.

To view only messages related to a particular action:

1. Select the log file you want and click Clear Display in the Console toolbar.If the button is dimmed, it means this feature is not available in this log.
2. If you want to add a time marker to the log, click Insert Marker in the toolbar.
3. Perform the action you are interested in and watch the log display to see the messages generated by your action.

I'm having this exact same problem Anamariela. Did you find a way to fix it?

It's starting to do my head in - I'll let you know if I find a fix.

Cheers

Hi!

I am having the same problems. I think this started a few days ago.

I can log into OK to yahoo mail but when I click on something - the spinning beach ball starts and goes on forever. Resetting safari and machine allows me to run it once. But after I exit from yahoo mail and come back in, the beach ball appears.

I think it must have something to do with the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and yahoo-mail + safari.

I deleted the Flash Player plug-in from the /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ and then Yahoo Mail runs fine and is super fast. The only problem is that I am not able to play youtube videos on safari.

For some reason, Chrome does not seem to have this problem. It runs find with YahooMail and somehow still runs OK without the FlashPlayer Plug-in.

I tried this on both my Macbook Pro and iMAC (both Snow Leopard + Safari 5) - same problem.

Hope someone finds a fix.

Having the same problem.have tried to get response from Yahoo.Nothing yet.Never had the problem with old Yahoo Mail.This is obviously a bug with Safari browser. Have IMac about 1 year old. Tried to clear cache but still didn't solve the problem.

Looks like it is a problem with Safari + Flash - not just yahoo mail.

My sister just had the same problems on some streaming video sites and some online games. We get in OK to the sites but all it takes is a single click for the spinning beach ball to come up.

For the time being we are using Chrome for emails and gaming.

C'mon Apple - you guys got to fix this! Looks like it only happened after the last update. Things were working fine before this.

I am soo frustrated. I bought the Apple over a PC because I heard they have less problems. Doesn't seem to be the case. I a having the same spinning wheel problem when I use Safari. It only started a few days ago. I am now using Firefox. Hope someone fixes this roblem.

Hi guys,

I'm running into the same problem too. Running Safari 5.1 on Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Intermittently when checking mail on Yahoo I get the spinning beach ball of death when click on inbox.

Nothing works until I quit Safari.

Any solutions out there?

If you remove Flash Plug-in, Safari and yahoo mail will work fine. Google Chrome seems to handle Yahoo and Flash together, as does firefox.

Open a new finder window and go to Macintosh HD/Library/Internet Plug-ins. In the Internet plug ins folder there will be an adobe flash player plug in. The most recent upgrade to that plug in seems to be the problem. Just trash it and Safari and Yahoo mail should work. Only downside is that you will not have flash and will have problems with video. I found the better solution to be using Google Chrome for Yahoo mail.

@ AGupta: The solution that worked for me was to downgrade (thanks Adobe!) to Flash version 10.1

A crappy solution, yes, but I was able to watch youtube and use my "new" Yahoo Mail.

Hope it works for you!

Cheers!

@ andrea84: I understand your fustration, but the problem lies with Adobe software, not Apple.

Historically the newest version of any Adobe software is super buggy, so if you have a new Mac

chances are you have Flash version 10.3 - the version you want is 10.1 - so just google Flash version

10.1 and install that.

Hope this helps you like it did me!

Cheers!