How To Turn Off Top Sites And Image Caches Permanently.

Here's what I've done:
1. Quit Safari 4.0 and right-click on it's icon in the Finder. Select "Show Package Contents".
2. Look inside the Contents folder and right-click on +Safari Webpage Preview Fetcher+ and select *Compress "Safari Webpage Preview Fetcher"*.
3. Put the original Safari Webpage Preview Fetcher in the trash and empty it.
4. Navigate to +~Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Webpage Previews+ and highlight it. Get Info on it.
5. At the bottom click on the padlock, type in your password and then change the Privilege column for your login name to "*Read only*". Close the Get Info window.
6. Launch Safari.
I'll see how long this works before causing any issues. For right now it seems to be working and eliminates needlessly wasted CPU cycles (which matter when I'm using pro-apps and looking up things online) and stops the madness of the Webpage Previews folder from being constantly bombarded with screenshots (oddly, in both .png and .jpeg) which can eat up a LOT of space on the boot hard drive.
Message was edited by: W. Raider

~Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Webpage Previews
Should be
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Webpage Previews
Personally I've tried creating a soft link to /dev/null for the Webpage Previews folder and going to see how that goes
cd /Users/honem/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari
ln -s /dev/null "Webpage Previews"
ls -l
The last ls should output with Webpage Previews -> /dev/null in it somewhere indicating the Webpage Previews folder is linked to /dev/null

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