Does safari load in the background?

and if you have two pages open will it continue to load one while you look at the other?

It actually loads if you do not quit Safari, but if you do not re-access the page that is loading in the background in a timely manner it will refresh itself when finally accessed (I never timed it to see at what point it will refresh itself but it does not take to long)

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SAFARI: running in the background:

When I access a website there is an automatic refresh of the content. When I open a different webpage with Safari, then the automatic refresh on the first page stopps! How can I have a webpage be refreshed in background?
Does Safari download content when it is minimized / not visible?
When I go back to the first page, then the automatic refresh is not there any more. The function has been de-activated by Safari on Ipad. (On a Firefox on windows there is no such problem). How can I get the same webpage behaviour than before. (I know that reloading the page does the job. But this should be automatic and not from the user)

The ipad like a lot of other mobile devices use a type of multitasking that differs from multitasking you would find on Mac OS X, Windows or Linux. Apple chooses to put most background apps on iOS devices in a suspended mode which allows the application to be paused in the background and then respond quickly when brought to the foreground. Some application functions can continue to run in the background.
Features that are allowed to run in the background are music, location services, airplay, VoIP, push notifications, but it is still up to the developers to make use of this functionality.
I don't believe Safari is one of the applications that will continue to run in the background.
Why does Apple choose to do this? Short answer: Battery life and performance. If app developers were allowed to choose whether or not to have their application to run in the background, bad programmers would quickly kill the performance and battery on the iOS device.
Some devices such as andriod phones and the blackberry playbook allow broader multi-tasking. The trade off? Andriod phones have task killers, which forces the user to manage their performance and battery life. The playbook comes shipped with a default of using suspended multi-tasking on vs. full multi-tasking - since full multi-tasking would again affect performance and battery life.
I agree it would be nice if webpages continued to load if Safari is in the background, and maybe this will be added / enabled in the future. I think Apples design provides a better user experience and still allows most of the functions to run in the background that need to. (I don't need a movie to play in the background or game).
My guess would be Safari doesn't allow background use right not because of issues like auto-refresh pages, which again would affect performance and battery.

When I send an email from Mac Mail, why does Mail go to the background and the Finder comes to the front? I want it to stay in Mail.

When I send an email from Mac Mail, why does Mail go to the background and the Finder comes to the front? I want it to stay in Mail.

Did you check your user name and password in Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars...tap your email account, tap SMTP, then tap the primary server name. Make sure the settings there are correct.

If an item is deleted before opening does it open in the background anyway?

If an item is deleted in 'mail' before it is opened does it open in the background anyway? I am concerned about hackers, worms etc.

No, if you delete, that is trash and then empty the trash, it is gone from the system.
If you are really, really concerned, delete, empty trash, and then restart the system...anything that may have been in volatile memory will be gone that way.

Why does Safari crash in the middle of a movie or show from the internet?

Why does Safari crashes in the middle of a movie or show from the internet?

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
Step 1
For this step, the title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter the name of the crashed application or process. For example, if Safari crashed, you would enter "Safari" (without the quotes.)
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
In the Console window, select
          DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION ▹ User Diagnostic Reports
(not Diagnostic and Usage Messages) from the log list on the left. There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points down. You'll see a list of crash reports. The name of each report starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report related to the process in question. The contents of the report will appear on the right. Use copy and paste to post the entire contents—the text, not a screenshot.
I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.
If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a crash, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.
In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report—they're very long and rarely helpful.

I recently purchased Scan Snap for my Mac OS.X which came with Acrobat XI standard. This does not load on the Mac. Can I switch this for a Mac version?

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Is Firefox supposed to load in the background at startup?

This just started yesterday. I haven't done anything different with my computer/settings. After my computer starts up, clicking on an icon to go to a program, etc The program won't load and I get an error message about Firefox running in the background. According to Windows it's using 187,688k of memory and there's 4 plug-in containers that are running also. I don't remember seeing there plug-in containers in this window before. If I shut down my computer completely, restart, then everything's OK. What can I do to fix this problem. Thanks for your help.

Are you using Clear Recent History to clear the cookies when you close Firefox?
*Tools > Options > Privacy : History: [X] Clear history when Firefox closes > Settings
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clear+Recent+History
Firefox may not have closed properly the previous time.
Use "Firefox/File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit") to close Firefox if you are currently doing that by clicking the close X on the title bar.
See also:
*"Hang at exit": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs
* "Firefox hangs when you quit it": https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firefox+hangs

Safari "communicating" in the background

Hi all,
Has anyone else noticed that Safari seems to be communicating with something/someone in the background?
I noticed the network connection on my router blinking rapidly this evening, and went to check my machine, only to find out that it wasn't Mail or any other app. After quitting Safari, the connection stopped.
Even now, with only this window open, its sending around 180 packets per second, and getting them right back. It doesn't matter if I close this window and open another window, the same thing occurs. Running Safari with no windows open continues to do it again. Very strange.
I'm quite sure that I have no malware running (consistently doing scans for these sorts of things) so I'm a little stumped. Any ideas?
Happy New year and thanks!

That would do the trick. I didn't realise that top sites updated themselves even when the Top Sites page itself was not open. It seems to constantly communicate over the net to ensure that pages are relevant and updated, which is ironic, because it seems that they rarely look updated when I browse them at startup.... Oh well...
Thanks very much.

App Store does not load & kills the internet connection

Hello I'm currently using MBP 13' 2011 v. 10.7.2.
App Store window pops up after opening, but nothing actually shows up. It shows as if it is trying to load the App Store with the spinning indicator, but the app remains empty. Not only it does not load, it also kills whatever internet connection I've attempted on Safari. YouTube videos stop loading once App Store opens, for example.
Please help.
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How to run a safari window in the background at all times?

Ok, so you are probably wondering why I want to do this. Allow me to explain. The website twitch.tv is a streaming service for gamers, and there is a browser plugin specifically for the site called betterttv.
One feature of this plugin is that you will get a notification whenever someone you are following starts broadcasting, right in your notification center. But because its a browser plugin, and is specifically for this one website, it requires a safari window to be open with the website twitch.tv in order to push the notifications.
So my question is... how can I make a browser window stay open at all times and run in the background with this website open so that I get my notifications? I had the idea that I could retain the window even when I "quit" safari, because I can run a seperate instance of it in the form of Webkit Nightly which isnt affected by safari not being running.
But I am still oblivious as to how I would set up a window like this, and it has to start at login in addition to being running throughout the day. (I shut my Mac off at night.) Any amount of help would be appricated

I'm well aware of how to minimize thanks, and it *is* possible to have a Safari window open if you quit it, because you can run it as a separate instance by using WebKit Nightly...
I am just looking for the best way to set it up so that a WebKit Nightly window will open upon startup, navigate to that webpage, and hide itself. Preferably in the background. This could be done using a .command file or a startup script in automator. My question is.. What is the best direction to take?

Full extractor does not load all the g/l accounts

Hello experts,
I have a empy DataStore Object (ZFI_O02) and I want to load the information (g/l accounts) with a full infopackage. The load have the status of "Green" but when I check the information I have accounts without some documents. I do not know why my full extractor does not load correctly all the information.
I test the DataSources (3FI_SL_K2_SI) with the Tcode RSA3 and the test shows the all the accounts with all the documents.
Others tests -> I used the same infopackage (full mode) and restrict with the 0FISCPER (2010) and 0GL_ACCOUNT (Account Number) checked the PSA and I have the acoount with all the documents.
-> I used the same infopackage (full mode) and restrict only with the 0FISCPER (2010) checked the PSA and I have the account with one document missed.
Please help me.
Regards
Jeanette

Hi Jeanette,
Looks like the data is getting overwritten in the DSO. This usually happens when there are records with same Key Fields and also has certain characteristics that are unique but not key fields.
I suggest, you take a subset of a GL for which the data does not match, then compare the entries in the DSO and the PSA.
For Eg: If Business Area is not the key, then the data for all the same business areas will be overwritten. Thus making the BA key would eliminate the problem.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Gaurav

Loading in the background

Hello, I have a problem with the iphone 5. When I'm at home without any open application icon appears next to the wifi icon in the form of clock showing that something is loading, but if I enter an application loading icon disappears, the background applications are disabled. Help.

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Does firefox update in the background?

I get a notice that Firefox wants to update. I click go ahead. My Webroot Secure pops up to state there is a risk of infection and denotes it as pua. something or other. Is this a real threat or is Firefox attempting a legitimate update? I just installed it two days ago from your website.

But does firefox do the updates in the background, without any popup windows? If so, then when I see a popup purporting to update firefox, I will know it is fake and let my AV do what it asks to do - get rid of it. The name of the threat was pua.firefoxadmin or something like that. On the other hand, if there is a setting stipulating that I always be asked (I thought I asked at install that firefox just do the update automatically) and this creates a popup, I will allow the update.
How do I check to see if I am being notified of each update and asked to approve?

Using a right click, how can I load in the background a new Google search tab?

I can click on a link and have it open in a new tab in the background but try as I might I cannot select a word, right click, choose "Search Google for..." and have the new tabe open in the background. It opens in a new tab but then the tab is immediately selected. Holding down the Shift, Option, Control, or Command key doesn't work. Firefox immediately shifts to the new tab with the Google Search. Ideas?

If, at the top of your Firefox it does not show the Menu Bar - showing
File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help, hit F10 to make it show up and then go to Tools > Options.
Once that opens, click on where it says Tabs at the top. Then un tick the box where it says, "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately."

Safari on in the background

I've noticed that Safari is repeatedly running in the background and doesn't allow us to logout from the account or shutdown without force quitting it, and when you do, you have to be the Administrator.
What's the reason for this?
We use Firefox for web browsing, so we hardly ever start Safari for any reason.

Hi,
What you can try is to trash the com.apple.Safari.plist
This is the preferences file for Safari. You can find this file in ... HD>Users>Your_Name>Library>Preferences folder.
And if this is not solving the problem, that DRAG "_don't trash_" the Cookies.plist to the Desktop ...
You will find it in ... HD>Users>Your_Name>Librari>Cookies folder>Cookies.plist
Post back with the results ...
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