I have a question for you computer people. I've been using my Safari as my primary web browser for some time now (currently 5.1.7, with OS 10.6.8). Recently, though, I'm virtually guaranteed of getting the "spinning pizza" at some point if I'm browsing with multiple tabs/windows open at once, and I have to Force Quit. And once this happens in a session, it'll happen again, about every fifth or sixth window I open. I've tried emptying the safari cache, reseting safari completely, restarting, shutting down the machine and restarting, even deleting Safari and reinstalling it. Using Activity Monitor doesn't show memory (4 gigs) anything approaching full.

Yes, I know I can switch to Firefox, Chrome, or whatever, but what can I say? I sorta like Safari.

Other information: MacBookPro (c. 2008/9, the last unibody model with a user-replaceable battery), 2.93 GHz Intel dual-core, 256G SSD with about 60 gigs available.

Any suggestions as to what might be causing the "not responding" spinning pizza?

Thanks.

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Root Cause: Apple product.
Solution: Upgrade to Windows 7 64-bit.

You sir are welcome!

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How much RAM do you have?

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4 gigs.

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Hey, I may have given a smartass answer, but at least I read the whole post, lol.


I would have suggested memory leak as well, but with 4GB, that should not be a problem. I would check to see what other applications are started when you fire up your machine.

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safari?? when do we leave?? er um wait...

it may have been a smartass answer but it doesn't mean it is not true. =d>

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Do you have any add ons or extensions? I have no idea what could be causing that because I have an iMac with a little less power than yours and when I am developing sites I have anywhere between 4-15 tabs open and possibly multiple windows without any trouble all while running a few Adobe CS3 apps, Chrome, and a web server running on my local machine. The only real difference in my set up and yours (besides a slower processor and a regular hdd) is that I am running OSX 10.7.4. The upgrade is only $29 and might help your performance.

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