Safari hangs up with spinning color wheel a lot.  any idea?

Safari hangs up in yahoo a lot -spinning color wheel, etc.  other browsers do not.  Any idea ?

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  • Large online photo files cause slow Mac with spinning color wheel

    My Mac Mini has been gradually getting slower to launch apps, any app, and now usually includes 15-30 seconds of spinning color wheel. Sometimes I get the wheel and delays while browsing. Finder windows populate slowly with file icons/names.
    This behavior seems to have started, and gradually increased, since upgrading to 10.6 about 8 months ago but it also seems to be related to viewing large photo files online, since Snow Leopard.
    One repeatable problem is viewing a large 2 or 3mb photo file online. I notice in Activity Monitor that Safari (both 4 and now 5 at 64bit) will dramatically increase the Real and Virtual Memory used, and not decrease even after the browser window is closed. In a few minutes the User CPU % will max out (at about 75% while System uses 25%) and the Mac while freeze for several minutes (Safari not responding) until CPU usage goes back to normal, but the Mac will be so sluggish then that I have to restart. I usually Force Quit Safari.
    I have Repaired Permissions (1000s of Airport Utility were repaired but the JavaVM permissions report fixed but are on the list of repairs again a few minutes later) with Disk Utility and Cocktail, scanned with VirusBarrier X6, monitored network connections for months using Little Snitch and usually leave open Activity Monitor for checking out the action. I have read a lot of support docs and forums but I can't find the problem.
    Any idea how to rid myself of this bizarre behavior?

    start with http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html
    See
    Mac Maintenance Quick Assist,
    Mac OS X speed FAQ,
    Speeding up Macs,
    Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
    Essential Mac Maintenance: Get set up,
    Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev up your routines,
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    Myths of required versus not required maintenance for Mac OS X for information.

  • MacBook Pro with spinning Color Wheel - and Java?

    My MacBook Pro has recently developed a spinning color wheel when it's "thinking". At the same time, my system seems slower now.  I have more than 60% storage still available.  Not sure if that has anything to do with it.  I live in a rather large town and have Comcast Xfinity which is satisfactory and has never gone out. 
    My other question is regarding JAVA.  Is it necessary?  What's it for?  I constantly get messages that Java need updating …is this something I can remove?  If so, how do I do this safely and completely?
    Thank you!
    Donna

    Problem description:
    Color spinning wheel and slow MacBook Pro...
    EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
    Report generated March 5, 2015 10:56:18 AM CST
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        MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
        1 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
        4 GB RAM
            BANK 0/DIMM0
                2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
            BANK 1/DIMM0
                2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
        Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
        Wireless:  en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
        Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 265
    Video Information: ℹ️
        Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
            Color LCD 1280 x 800
    System Software: ℹ️
        Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63) - Time since boot: 0:55:42
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            disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
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             0%    SystemUIServer
             0%    SophosUIServer
             0%    InterCheck
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        185 MB    WebProcess
        172 MB    InterCheck
        94 MB    Safari
        90 MB    SophosAntiVirus
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        1.60 GB    Active RAM
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  • Trouble with spinning color wheel

    Still having the same issues with the spinning color wheel. Took my computer into Apple; seemed to "fix" it but as soon as I brought it back home and started using it again the same issue with the color wheel constantly spinning.  Has ANYONE had success with fixing this problem?!!! I've tried everything suggested and like I said, took it into Apple and that hasn't helped.

    Problem description:
    color wheel continues to spin
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        4 GB RAM Upgradeable
            BANK 0/DIMM0
                Empty  
            BANK 1/DIMM0
                Empty  
            BANK 0/DIMM1
                2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
            BANK 1/DIMM1
                2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
        Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
        Wireless:  en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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        NVIDIA GeForce 9400 - VRAM: 256 MB
            iMac 1920 x 1080
    System Software: ℹ️
        OS X 10.10.3 (14D136) - Time since boot: 0:13:35
    Disk Information: ℹ️
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            EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
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  • Wireless Internet Lags with Spinning Color Wheel, but only on My MBP

    I've noticed for the past 2 weeks or so my internet connection has been really laggy and it takes forever to do anything. If I click on something, the spinning color wheel shows up. If I scroll up or down the page, the spinning color wheel shows up. I've tried clearing cache and it'll speed things back to normal for a few hours, but it'll go back to being really slow.
    Right now the spinning color wheel isn't showing up, but it might as well be cause the wait time is the same. It'll take roughly 5-10 seconds to scroll.
    I'm using Firefox as my Internet browser if that makes any difference. When I check the Activity Monitor, the %CPU for it ranges from 14.9 to 76.9 to 105.7. That's the only thing with more than 1%CPU? As for System Memory, I have:
    FREE: 287.6 MB, WIRED: 764.4 MB, ACTIVE: 2.11 GB, INACTIVE: 885.8 MB, USED: 3.73 GB (the numbers keep changing though)
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  • Long Unresponsive Delay with Spinning Color Wheel After Compressor Launches

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    The reason why this is happening is because I have six (6), yes 6, external optical DVD and Blu-ray burner drives connected to my Mac Pro through a combination of FireWire and USB. When I turn them all off, the delay and unresponsiveness in Compressor is significantly shorter (about 6 seconds). Compressor tries to scan for all your optical drives upon program startup, and this can take a long time if you have many optical drives connected. This issue does not exist in Compressor 3.
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  • Spinning color wheel - jnl unknown-dev

    I've been seeing the infamous spinning color wheel a lot lately. I recently replaced a disk due to bad sectors and then found out after that I had a bad memory module. I had a lot of corrupted songs in itunes and that's how I originally realized I had disk issues. I had a friend run a tool for diagnosis and we then replaced the drive.
    I put new ram in the machine and it's been running a lot better, less spinning wheel madness. It didn't seem to be swapping before putting the second gig of ram in, I was watching in the menubar. It always had about 300+ gigs free. ( now I'm back to 2 gigs ). That last long spinner happened while I was playing songs in itunes:
    Jan 3 15:57:12 macbook-pro-17 kernel[0]: jnl: unknown-dev: flushing fs disk buffer returned 0x5
    do I still have some disk corruption perhaps in my itunes library? it was copied off then copied back to the new disk. I did purchase Drive Genius 2 and when that comes in a few days I'll run that.
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    Version: ??? (???)
    Code Type: X86 (Native)
    Parent Process: launchd [1]
    Date/Time: 2009-01-07 22:40:10.391 -0500
    OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)
    Report Version: 6
    Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGSEGV)
    Exception Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS at 0x0000000000200000
    Crashed Thread: 0
    Thread 0 Crashed:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x948a6a85 asl_get64 + 11
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x948a8034 aslfile_fetchpos + 939
    2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x948a82f6 aslfilematch + 339
    3 aslmanager 0x00002409 0x1000 + 5129
    4 aslmanager 0x00002b3e 0x1000 + 6974
    5 aslmanager 0x0000211a 0x1000 + 4378
    Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
    eax: 0x001ffffc ebx: 0x948a7ca1 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0x00000000
    edi: 0x0000f776 esi: 0x00100430 ebp: 0xbffffbc8 esp: 0xbffffba0
    ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010286 eip: 0x948a6a85 cs: 0x00000017
    ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
    cr2: 0x00200000
    Binary Images:
    0x1000 - 0x2ffd +aslmanager ??? (???) <201b2dea48b8d80ac1432ff85244ed31> /usr/sbin/aslmanager
    0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe2db43 dyld 97.1 (???) <100d362e03410f181a34e04e94189ae5> /usr/lib/dyld
    0x91db7000 - 0x91dbefe9 libgcc_s.1.dylib ??? (???) <f53c808e87d1184c0f9df63aef53ce0b> /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
    0x947b8000 - 0x9491fff3 libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) <d68880dfb1f8becdbdac6928db1510fb> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
    0x96c0e000 - 0x96c12fff libmathCommon.A.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
    0xffff0000 - 0xffff1780 libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

  • IMac hangs on spinning color wheel when coming out of screen saver

    Since updating to the latest version 10.5.5 my iMac hangs when coming out of screen saver mode with the spinning color wheel and I have to do a hard reboot.
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    Anyone else have this problem since the last update??

    Medievalknight wrote:
    I was so spoiled from not having to do anything with my iMac but enjoy it that it never occurred to me a little maintenance would be required.
    Still compared to the Windows PC's I have around that I have to try and maintain once a day I think the Mac is a killer machine....
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    Again, you do not need to run permissions repair every day. Not even every month, but it's best to do it anytime you install new software - before and after installing the software.
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  • I keep getting a spinning color wheel when I start safari or mail and it holds up my iMac for several minutes. At times I need to do a hard reset as it freezes e everything ... I'm stumped! Software is up to date ... Help!

    I keep getting a spinning color wheel when I start safari or mail and it holds up my iMac for several minutes. At times I need to do a hard reset as it freezes e everything ... I'm stumped! Software is up to date ... Help!

    den.thed wrote:
    John has suggested rebuilding the Mail mailboxes. Once Mail is open, go to: Mailbox on the menu bar and select Rebuild.
    As for Safari, is it opening and working if you open it before Mail and what if any Extensions are you using?
    OK ... so I just restarted and opened Safari first ... no spinning ball. And I opened mail after hitting the rebuild, well, I'm missing messages from Dec. 24 - now, but it opened right away. Most messages are FB feeds, so it's not like I've lost anything important. So, initial thoughts ... John was a tremendous help, BUT, we shall see what happens when I try to open mail again ... and I'll try it first with the next restart or wake up ... so appreiciate the walk-thru on all of this!

  • When I am in e-mail. I get the spinning color wheel. Then, when I check the activity montior, it notes high cpu usage (99%) for "Safari web content.". then I quit this process and cpu usage drops way done. but I have to log in again to my e-mail. what can

    When I am in e-mail, I sometimes get the spinning color wheel, which lock up everything. when it doesn't go away, I see on the activity monitor, that CPU usage is very high (99%), for a process calles " Safari web content'. When I click on the proccess and quite, the CPUusage goes way down. Problem is that I have to then log back in to e-mail. What can I do to eliminate this proble.  thanks

    How much FREE RAM do you have when this occurs. It's easy to tell, when it beach balls open Activity Monitor (Applications - Utilities - Activity Monitor) click the System Memory tab and note how much FREE RAM is listed. If it's 500MB or less it's time for a RAM upgrade.

  • HT1338 My mail is locked up with only a spinning color wheel.  I've tried rebooting to no avail.  Can anyone help?

    My mail app is locked up with only a spinning color wheel. I've tried rebooting several times.  Anyone have a suggestion?

    From the menu bar, select
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  • IMovie project freezes with continuous spinning color wheel

    I'm using iMovie 8.0.4. I have been working on a large (3hr) movie project and the last time I tried adding a voiceover, the project froze and the spinning color wheel remains continuously for hours. I had to force quit, and after rebooting and restarting several time, the same thing happens when I try to open this project. I have since tried deleting the preferences file and resetting permissions without success. The program opens OK and I can get some of my other projects to open, but every time I try to open my large project, the color wheel starts spinning. I had made a backup copy of my project file before adding the voiceover, and the same thing happens even if I try to open this old version. Any suggestions on how to fix this project file would be very welcomed.

    I have been having almost exactly the same problem with iMovie 8.05, but unfortunately, none of the suggested remedies have helped. Does anyone have a solution to this frustrating dilemma?

  • My imac keeps giving me a spinning color wheel and hangs up the machine for a few seconds and sometimes minutes. What could be the program and how can i get rid of it?

    My imac keeps giving me a spinning color wheel when i open and close applications and also when I am typing in programs. It happens and spins and then releases. I have done the following: Run virus software and found no problems, I have reinstalled the operating system, I have reloaded Iworks software, I have checked system prefrerences and still the problem continues. What could the problem be and how can I correct the problem?

    "the spinning wait cursor is displayed automatically by the window server when an application cannot handle all of the events it receives. If an application does not respond for about 2 to 4 seconds, the spinning wait cursor appears."
    read how to troubleshoot: http://www.macworld.com/article/151583/2010/05/spinningbeachballofdeath.html

  • Safari initiates spinning color wheel lockup

    When I get to a website that I want to print I finish giving the print command and get the spinning color wheel instead. As if like in Windows I have too many expectations than the Mac can handle. And yet I have 2 gigs of RAM and the Memory is little used as Mac is only 6 months old.
    What is recommended when you get the spinning wheel ? Windows machines like to be defraged. What does a Mac need ?

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