Top Sites = Beach Ball of Death (Facebook)

Question

Most of the time when I try to access facebook through the topsites, it causes Safari to stop responding and gives the beach ball of death. It occurred with my espn ffb page too, but facebook is more common.
Apple is just trying to make safari look like an iphone, but failed big time on this one. It's like Microsoft's blue screen of death, do you really want the same sort of association with the beach ball?
Safari 4.03 on OS10.4.11

Answer 1

HI,
It would be easier to help you if you would click: My Settings on the right side of this page and tell us which Mac you have and which Mac OS it's running. Much easier to assist you with your profile available. Thanks!
Is your Mac's graphic card may not be compatible or up to date for TopSites.
Safari 4: Top Sites, Cover Flow features require compatible graphics card
*Safari 4 minimum requirements:*
-Any Mac running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7 or Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 *and Security Update 2009-002*
-Mac with an Intel processor or a Power PC G5, G4, or G3 processor and built-in FireWire®
256MB of RAM
-Top Sites and Cover Flow on Mac OS X Tiger require a Quartz-Extreme compatible video card.
Make certain you have that Security 2009-002 installed. Go to System Preferences/Software Updatess - Insatlled Updates.
Of your Mac meets the minimum requirements for Safari 4 ... try Safari maintenance.
From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Empty Cache. When you are done with that...
from the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 5 buttons and click Reset.
Quit Safari.
Go to Home/Library/Caches/Safari and delete all the sub-folders within that one.
Safari add-ons can cause performance issues or other situations
Mac OS: Web Browser Quits Unexpectedly or Stops Responding
Mac OS X: How to force background maintenance tasks (logs and temporary items)
Repair disk permissions:
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
Carolyn
Message was edited by: Carolyn Samit