My Safari 5 spinning beachball problem solved
I hope this might solve YOUR problems with the feared 'spinning pizza' hang in the new Safari 5...
I started to investigate whether anything conflicted with the new Safari - namely any of the new extensions which Safari 5 uses. There was only one there in the directory ~/Library/Safari/Extensions and it was the 'reload page button' extension.
However, I don't know how or why, but it was there TWICE! I trashed one and straight away Safari seemed to speed up. Just to be on the safe side, I trashed the other as well, and then reinstalled it afresh, and Safari is once more as good as new.
I'm once more enjoying using Safari 5 - in fact it's much better than Safari 4 now!
Pete Bell, UK
Open a Finder window. Select MacintoshHD in the Sidebar on the left. Now open the Library folder, the Application Support folder, Input Managers folder, and the Scripting Additions folder.
Move these files from the InputManagers folder to the Trash: CTLoader/ctloader.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ctloader
Move these files from the Scripting Additions folder to the Trash: tscripting.osax/Contents/MacOS/ctscripting
Move these files from the Application Support folder to the Trash: Plugins/cttoolbar.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ct_plugins
Once you have moved all the files to the Trash, launch Safari.
It's easy to get confused when trying to follow the paths. There are two libraries. One is the system library, the path is: MacintoshHD/Libarry
Then there's your user account library represented by the Tilde ~ character ~/Library
In this case the files you need to send to the Trash are all in the system library.
Carolyn
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[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
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Evernote
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AirPlayitServerManager
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LogMeInSafari64: Version: 1.0.660 Support
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Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.2.0.16 - SDK 10.8 Support
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.07 - SDK 10.6 Support
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Java Support
Logitech Control Center Support
Paragon NTFS for Mac ® OS X Support
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Mobile backups: OFF
Auto backup: YES
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