Safari 7.0.4 Top Sites previews remain blank

I've been having this issue for a couple of weeks now, the websites previews don't load. To be more specific, Safari tries to load one and I see it for half a second, but then it goes back to blank. Then Safari tries to load the next one, again I see it briefly, but it doesn't stick around. And so on, in order from the 1st to the last preview. As if it tried but didn't succeed in loading them, never happened before, cannot recall if I did something weird but I would say no. I updated my Flash to the 14 version yesterday, and only yesterday the previews worked fine, back to normal, after updating Flash. Today it's back to blank! So I don't know if it's got something to do with Flash at this point? If it can help, this is my current Flash version as shown in the System Preferences Flash pane:
It is driving me nuts, the fact that it tries to load and I see these previews flashes very briefly is very disturbing, would be better if they were blank all the time. I hope it can be solved. Thank you!
edit:
I have already tried a couple Terminal commands found on here, for the same problem reported by someone else, didn't work. Disk is ok, permissions are ok, everything appears to be ok. Tried resetting Safari, deleting all Top Sites, putting them back, didn't work. Obviously shutting everything down didn't work either. Only thing that worked (shortly) was updating Flash. Really dunno...

From the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Extensions
Turn all extensions OFF and test. If the problem is resolved, turn extensions back ON and then disable them one or a few at a time until you find the culprit.

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macbook-nick.fritz.box com.apple.WebKit.WebContent[1855]: tcp_connection_destination_prepare_complete 140 connectx to 2a02:26f0:5::5f64:f912#80 failed: 65 - No route to host
[2 more, similar to the one above …]
macbook-nick.fritz.box com.apple.WebKit.WebContent[1855]: tcp_connection_handle_destination_prepare_complete 138 failed to connect
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Best,
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4) In the terminal application enter:
defaults delete com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy
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