Coverflow and Top Sites missing!

Hi!
I have a steaming, freshly installed Safari and Graphics Card driver, and none of the shiny new features (Coveeflow, Top Sites) are to be seen. My system meets the requirement as listed on the download page, so I can't imagine why this is happening.
I have DirectX 9.0c installed. Here is a link to my laptop's specifications.
http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu51/kar0010/laptopspecs.png
Any help appreciated, thankyou.

On my HP laptop, there is no option for top sites. No button on the config. I d/l it today, 091119 and installed on the HP laptop. I then uninstalled it (top sites was missing), and then installed again from scratch. No luck. Still not there and no button to drag and drop from the config.
Missing buttons ... okay, let's try an experiment. Try the instructions I give in the following post beneath the heading *"XP instructions for Cyndy if Cyndy has also lost her wee coggy thing":*
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10604313&#10604313
(Thinking here that if it got back the cogwheel on an XP box, it also stands a good chance of getting back the Top Sites button.)

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No way to turn them off, however, you can hide cover flow in the Bookmarks Manager by dragging the small rectangle box below the cover flow scroll bar upwards.
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Hi there,
I am having a problem with my Safari 4 and been searching for a fix since a few days but could not find a solution, so I hope there is someone who can help me out.
There are basically two problems, I have with Safari.
The first one is, that since Safari 4.0 there is a new kind of a "progress bar" which changes its color and is actually at first dark and then gets more light while loading a page. My progress bar is not chaning colors at all. It just stays dark all the time.
And the second one, is that if you have a site on you "Top Sites" and click that, it fades in, so it comes nearer and gets larger until it fits the window. So, if you go back from that site to you "Top Sites" again, it actually should fade out and move back to its old position on the "Top Sites". And again, my Safari does not do that either.
I don't know, if that is improtant or not, but I played around with the Safari 4 beta tweaks and changed the progress bar so I have the blue one in the background of my adress bar.
I already tried to restore my old Safari from my Programs folder with Time Machine and installed the 4.0 again but still, it does not work for me.
I know that these are not somehow critical bugs but it would be great, if Safari would just work, as it actually should.
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There is no blue progress bar in Safari 4. In S4 Beta, Terminal code was used to bring that S3 feature back, however, S4 final has removed the related code. Hence, no blue progress bar. Instead, there's a spinning gear to the right of the Address Bar indicating the page is loading.
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aha! NOT tab bar BUT Bookmarks Bar! I guessed the TOOL bar at first. BOOKMARKS!
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MacFuse could be the issue. If you can, move MacFuse from System Preferences/Accounts - Login Items or /Library/Startup Items.
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The work around is to set preferences to open an empty page upon a new tab being opened.
It just has me more curious than anything now. Apple's next actions were for me to 1) uninstall every 3rd party app or plugin (NOT easy to do) or 2) wipe/erase the hard drive, reinstall clean mac OS and then bring data back slowly (not easy for me).
I guess the other option would be to upgrade to Lion, see what happens.
I have a very short video which shows this, but nor sure how or where to upload it to show people.
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application/x-mplayer2
Windows Media Plugin
application/x-ms-wmp
Windows Media Plugin
audio/x-ms-wax
Windows Media Playlist
wax
audio/x-ms-wma
Windows Media Audio
wma
video/x-ms-asf
Windows Media Video
asf
video/x-ms-asf-plugin
Windows Media Plugin
video/x-ms-asx
Windows Media Playlist
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video/x-ms-wm
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wm
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wmp
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application/photo
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application/x-java-applet
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javaapplet
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application/x-java-applet;version=1.1
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application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.1
Java applet
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Java applet
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3
Java applet
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3.1
Java applet
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4
Java applet
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.2
Java applet
application/x-java-applet;version=1.5
Java applet
application/x-java-applet;version=1.6
Java applet
application/x-java-vm
Java applet
application/x-java-vm-npruntime
Java applet
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application/x-3amlabs-rafiletransfer
File Transfer
application/x-3amlabs-raperfview
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application/x-3amlabs-raremotecontrol
Remote Control
application/x-3amlabs-raversion
Version
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application/officelive
Office Live Update v1.0
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application/sdp
SDP stream descriptor
sdp
application/x-mpeg
AMC media
amc
application/x-rtsp
RTSP stream descriptor
rtsp,rts
application/x-sdp
SDP stream descriptor
sdp
audio/3gpp
3GPP media
3gp,3gpp
audio/3gpp2
3GPP2 media
3g2,3gp2
audio/aac
AAC audio
aac,adts
audio/ac3
AC3 audio
ac3
audio/aiff
AIFF audio
aiff,aif,aifc,cdda
audio/amr
AMR audio
amr
audio/basic
uLaw/AU audio
au,snd,ulw
audio/mid
MIDI
mid,midi,smf,kar
audio/midi
MIDI
mid,midi,smf,kar
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MP3 audio
mp3,swa
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MPEG-4 media
mp4
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MPEG audio
mpeg,mpg,m1s,m1a,mp2,mpm,mpa,m2a,mp3,swa
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MP3 audio
mp3,swa
audio/vnd.qcelp
QUALCOMM PureVoice audio
qcp,qcp
audio/wav
WAVE audio
wav,bwf
audio/x-aac
AAC audio
aac,adts
audio/x-ac3
AC3 audio
ac3
audio/x-aiff
AIFF audio
aiff,aif,aifc,cdda
audio/x-caf
CAF audio
caf
audio/x-gsm
GSM audio
gsm
audio/x-m4a
AAC audio
m4a
audio/x-m4b
AAC audio book
m4b
audio/x-m4p
AAC audio (protected)
m4p
audio/x-midi
MIDI
mid,midi,smf,kar
audio/x-mp3
MP3 audio
mp3,swa
audio/x-mpeg
MPEG audio
mpeg,mpg,m1s,m1a,mp2,mpm,mpa,m2a,mp3,swa
audio/x-mpeg3
MP3 audio
mp3,swa
audio/x-wav
WAVE audio
wav,bwf
image/jp2
JPEG2000 image
jp2
image/jpeg2000
JPEG2000 image
jp2
image/jpeg2000-image
JPEG2000 image
jp2
image/pict
PICT image
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image/png
PNG image
png
image/tiff
TIFF image
tif,tiff
image/x-bmp
BMP image
bmp,dib
image/x-jpeg2000-image
JPEG2000 image
jp2
image/x-macpaint
MacPaint image
pntg,pnt,mac
image/x-pict
PICT image
pict,pic,pct
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PNG image
png
image/x-quicktime
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qtif,qti
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I have 3 batteries, original 1500mAh, two 1850mAh from ebay (they are designed for ZTE V768, but works good with OPEN C).
Yesterday, I switched out one 1850 mAh battery, and put in another. First system couldn't see the battery status of the 2nd battery (should be near 100%, but OS insists its <20%). So I did a battery pull for a few minutes and put 2nd battery in again. This time, the system see the proper battery percentage, but since that, there is no top site nor history in the browsers. Universal search also doesn't return any history records. I had to reset the phone.

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I am sorry to hear about the loss of history and top sites on your ZTE Open C device.
Unfortunately, it's possible that either the unofficial build or the unofficial battery may have caused problems with the phone and eventually the loss of data.
Please contact ZTE's support channels directly for further assistance. They are the manufacturer of your device and may be able to further assist you.
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I'm not sure why, but the 'Top Sites' feature no longer updates. I then tried to close all the little windows, but now nothing shows up at all. Any ideas on how to fix this?

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I understand that you no longer see updates to the Top Sites feature in Safari. Try clearing all Safari data and then test the Top Site feature. If the issue persists, make sure that this option is selected in Safari preferences. Here are a couple articles that will walk you through this process.
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I do not use Top Sites or the cover flow display of them. Can these features of Safari 4.0.2 be completely disabled in order to conserve RAM and CPU usage?
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I appreciate your answer. But all I want to eliminate is Top Sites and cover flow of them. I want to retain cache and history unless I manually delete them.
When I go to Safari reset and ask it to eliminate cover flow and Top Sites, or when I go to the page displaying the cover flow and manually delete each image, neither step actually deletes because when I return to the Top Sites page, there are still cover flow images, and they happen to not be the sites I most often visit.
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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).
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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.

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