Safari 6 Top Sites doesn't update

Same issue for me on Safari 6 on 10.8.
Hopefully it is just a bug, not a "feature"

Have reported it via www.apple.com/feedback

The same problem here.

Safari 6 on 10.8.

Just as a stopgap for those that can.

I copied the Safari v5.1.7 package from a Snow Leopard Mac and dropped it into a folder called (old Safari), which I had to create, in the Applications directory on my Lion Mac. Launched it, it works great, page updating is showing again (in the v5.1.7 package of course).

Till there's security issues or a fix to 6.0, this will be what I'm using for the time being - drove me nuts today looking at the Top Pages and no page updates showing up - funny how dependent we get on little stuff like this.

Hi, i deleted ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db and the topsites.plist... and the problem persist.

OS X Lion, Safari 6.0

I am another user with Mountain Lion and Safari 6 with the same issue of no blue stars for Top Sites. There still is no one on this string who has said that this feature works with Mountain Lion and Safari 6. I suppose it remains only to find out whether this was intentional on Apple's part.

I too have noticed that the blue stars are no longer showing up. I'm running Safari 6 (from software update), but still on OS X Lion (10.7.4)

Sorry to hear the copy v5.1.7 doesn't work on Mountain Lion ambs, that really stinks - seems like v5.1.7 isn't compatible with Mountain Lion, only Lion.

Rats...so much for a get through solution for everybody.

Same here.

MacBook Pro (mid 2009), Mountain Lion.

Hope they fix it soon. Top Sites is probably one of my most used features and the page curl flag is a great timesaver. Would like this on the iPad in iOS 6 if possible...

Same problem for me, with MBP 7,1 (10.8) and Mac Pro 1,1 (10.7). My iMac 12,1 is still running Lion and Safari 5 and I get the stars on updated Top Sites thumbnails. Won't upgrade to 10.8 until this is sorted out.

I haven't seen any reporting on this issue, so don't know if it is working for anybody with Safari 6, or if most people don't use Top Sites so don't notice it. I use it as my home page so I'm missing it terribly.

Hi having the same problem and I miss that feature, if you folks can't figure it out I sure can't. Lets hope Apple fixes it or brings it back

Since I'm not hearing a thing about this issue on the Apple tech sites and Apple doesn't officially watch these forums....and the blue page curl with the star indicator is not being highlighted or shown on the Apple Safari page anymore, I'm a little afraid it'll die in silence - and I don't want to loose this cool feature.

I'd encourage everyone who wants this feature working in Safari v6 (and beyond) to file a user bug report (Feedback Type Dropdown select "Bug Report") here (its a short process, less than 10 mins):

http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html

More visibility that people want this fixed can only be a good thing at this point.

Does anyone know of another browser that offers this functionality? I'm thinking we're kind of stuck if Apple drops it.

Interesting that the feedback page is ignorant of 10.8.

"Interesting that the feedback page is ignorant of 10.8."

I know, right, doesn't give a great feel that these things are being kept up to date - hopefully someone actually looks at the entries.

I apologize for the double post, got some bad news for everyone wanting the Top Sites update site indicator to work with Safari v6.

The short version is that the Top Sites site update indicator (blue curl with white star) is not supposed to work in Safari v6.0 and its a "feature" of v6.0 (meaning its not supposed to work) not a bug - also means its not likely to come back. 😟

The top sites web page update indicator uses the RSS functionality (yep the same one Apple got rid of in Safari v6) to tell if a page is updated or not, without RSS the page update indicator won't work - and part of this RSS functionality was actually integrated into OS X at the operating system level and was removed in Mountain Lion (this is why Safari v5.1.7 with RSS and top site indicator functionality crashes when launched on Mountain Lion...the backend RSS plumbing etc. that Safari v5.1.7 is expecting is not there).

Here's the page I found the information in the comments section about these details - serious bummer:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1168016/bugs_and_fixes_troubleshooting_mountain_ lion.html

As mentioned before, if you are running Lion, you can grab a copy of the Safari v5.1.7 package from Time Machine or another Mac (about 40MB in size and Snow Leopard did not get the v6 update) and copy it into a new directory (you create) in the Applications folder on your Lion Mac and it should run fine (with RSS and Top Site page update functionality...works for me). Be sure not to launch both versions at the same time as you could corrupt your user settings (since they use the same files for bookmarks etc.).

Mountain Lion users are stuck since the RSS functionality that the Top Site update indicator needs has literally been ripped out of OS X. Safari v5.1.7 will crash when launched in Mountain Lion because this backend functionality isn't there. For folks that are truly desperate, you could roll back (or reinstall) to Lion or Snow Leopard (although only Lion and Mountain Lion are getting system updates at this point) and then run Safari v5.1.7.

This is such a constantly used (the situational awareness of what page has been updated is so valuable) piece of functionality for me I will just run v5.1.7 for the time being (not a good long term solution since there aren't going to be anymore security updates for Safari v5.1.7, only v6...).

As far as I can tell other Browsers basically have what Safari v6 has, which is thumbnail screens of favorite sites with images that get updated (on some browsers - Firefox, Chrome?) and doesn't get updated on others (Opera) - but none of them has page update indicators like Safari v5.x. I wish one did have the Top Sites page update indicator functionality as I'd switch in an instant.

Total bummer watching this really useful and valuable feature get killed cause Apple wanted to strip out (web standard) RSS functionality from OS X and leaving the users in the dark about it all, as we try to figure out what happened. My sympathies to everyone who loves this feature as do I.