What's happened to top sites?

Hi all
Since updating Safari to the latest version (5.15) recently, the browser seems to take a very long time to populate the homepage images (see below):
It seems completely random as to which it chooses to populate at any given time. Any thoughts?

Yes, it does seem to take longer. (Both 5.1.4 and 5.1.5 by comparison with 5.1.3.)
Haven't been able to determine reliable workarounds for the issue, myself.
If you like you can give feedback directly to Apple about the issue. Here's a link to the Safari product feedback form:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html

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I've designed this site in Photoshop, sliced it up and then exported it to HTML format, then opened up the HTML file for editing in Dreamweaver. Everything looks good and when I go to preview it in Safari, it looks great.
So I sent this project out for testing by some of my family and a cousin came back and told me to look at the site in Firefox. It looked like crap! Really, there were spaces where there shouldn't have been and some links had blue borders around them. I managed to get the blue borders off, but the site still looks kind of truncated.
So, I had to make a flash site which looks great and does everything I wanted it to, all for this truncated table reason.
Would someone be so kind as to take a look at the site and the code (I'm a designer by the way, not a developer and this is just beyond me!) and give me some suggestions? This project is my first web project and I'm getting a little stressed out that I can't find the answer to a problem that seems basic.
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eDz
You can view it here - http://www.temanametalpolishing.com/ and be sure to choose the non-flash site.
P.S.
I've got Dreamweaver CS5 on a Mac platform by the way.

Unfortunately web design is not like print design. You can't just drag and drop and expect things to work. Web design does require a little bit of coding knowledge. Typically most here will suggest that you create the slices in Photoshop and export the slices you need. Then in Dreamweaver build the HTML instead of using the Export function from Photoshop because all Photoshop does is create a table with images in each cell. Not ideal for a web design, it fits everything tightly which is why when you add a link you get a blue border since when images become links you get a blue border unless you turn it off.
Also what is happening is that fonts might display differently in browsers and because of the tight fitting structure when you add too much text things get pushed out of alignment even if it does not appear that way in Design View.
If time is important give this tutorial a read over: http://layersmagazine.com/image-slicing-in-photoshop-cs3.html . It is an excellent tutorial about the current method you are using and will get you setup with best practices.
I'll try and look to see a better tutorial of what I am explaining about coding the page manually from Photoshop slices unless someone else on here beats me to it. But that first link should get you going.

What would happen if site to site conference call using G.729

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Safari top sites/history

I have been trying to remove history and top site data form safari, i already tried:
1- reset safary (all options checked)
     Safari > Reset Safari...
2- Clear history
      History > Clear History...
3- Remove All Web Site Data
     Safari > Preferences > Privacy > Remove All Website Data ...
4- Edit Top Sites:
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     Edit
     Delte one by one
I tried them one by one, all together, close and reopen safari, restart the mac and shutdown, regardles of what i do the top sites will always come back, history is always gone, i read diferent post and get all the suggested ideas that i have used but so far top sites are always back.
Im on a macbook air 13" mid-2012, runing Mac OS X(10.8.4)
Any suggestion?

hi,
Yes im logged as admin, the problem is with "Top Sites" only, everything else get removed without any problem.
I just notice that it happen when i clear history and select "Reset Top Sites" if i do that then the top sites will be recreated out of nowhere. so i have to uncheck "Reset Top Sites" (on clear history or reset safari option).
The link you send explain why it happen but still is kind of anoying to have things that i have never use there.
Reset Top Sites:
Clears any changes you made to Top Sites, such as adding or pinning sites. If you also clear your history, your Top Sites page reverts to showing the webpage previews displayed when you first installed Safari.
The "solution" was
1- History > Show Top Sites
2- Edit
3- Remove all Top Sites
4- Uncheck "Reset Top Sites" from any clear option (Clear History and Reset Safari)
second solution... I installed chrome
Does anyone knows how to tunr off Top Sites, or how safari desided which sites are top after reseting top sites?For instance i have never used twitter and it shows up as a top site.

MacFUSE and Top Sites?

Recently my top sites feature has begun disappearing. I've deleted plist files and reinstalled the program. This gets them back for awhile, but at some point the feature stops working again. All I get is the search history box overlayed on whatever page I happen to be on at the time I click the feature. That also is non-functional.
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HI Jim,
MacFuse could be the issue. If you can, move MacFuse from System Preferences/Accounts - Login Items or /Library/Startup Items.
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
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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.
(That will reset TopSites for you).
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bpageIcons.db to the Trash.*
And make sure Safari is not running in Rosetta. Right or control click the Safari icon in your Applications folder then click Get Info. In the Get Info window click the black disclosure triangle so it faces down. Where you see Open using Rosetta... make sure that is NOT selected.
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Under Preferences in Safari, I have set my homepage to open to AOL. However, what opens up is Top Sites. How do I correct this?

Hi Netsclark,
I have an article here for you that can describe the preferences that you should check for to make sure Safari performs this operation as you expect:
Mac Basics: Safari 6 in OS X Mountain Lion
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5364
Set your homepage
To set your homepage, follow these steps:
In Safari select Safari > Preferences… > General (toolbar)
Type or paste the homepage URL in the "Homepage:" field
If you want your homepage to open in a new Safari window, select "Homepage" in the "New windows open with:" pop-up menu.
If you want your homepage to open in a new Safari tab, select "Homepage" in the "New tabs open with:" pop-up menu.
Important: With Resume enabled, Safari will not always open with your homepage, even if in Safari Preferences you have selected "Homepage" in the "New windows open with:" pop-up menu. To open your Homepage under these circumstances, hold down the shift key when you open Safari.
You will want to specifically choose the options you wish to have in steps 3 and 4 above to directly address your question. Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden

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I recently updated from Safari 6.05 to 6.1 on my Macbook Air running OS 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion). I can live with the drab new look of Top Sites — not that I seem to have much choice in the matter. A feature that appears to have vanished, and which I greatly miss is the blue star in the upper right corner on the web pages in Top Sites which indicated a change in the web page since my last visit. Top Sites no longer appears to scan the pages; what I see now is the appearance of the page the last time I visited. Is there any way I can reactivate this function?

It should update the page automatically.
Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following:
~/Library/Safari/TopSites.plist
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Quit and relaunch Safari. See if pages update automatically in Top Sites.

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Please refer to one of the many,many other threads in this forum on that topic. Tabs on top were only in the Safari 4 beta version, not Safari 3.
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Running the latest versions of Yosemite and Safari (not the beta versions).
I cannot get the Top Sites to retain all the sites I've pinned. I've got 2 spots left and no matter what I do *unpin" every site and add the 2 sites and then pin them all, do it separately, delete the preferences file for top sites, etc, the last two "spots" will not stay pinned. I can pin them even one at a time, open up a new tab with Top Sites and the pinned site will be there. Open another page and the newly pinned site is gone when Top Sites is opened in a new tab.
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Try a reset.
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What has the Apple support team done to the Top Sites screen? I just accepted an automatic update to be downloaded to my iMAC, and as a result of this "fix installation" the layout of the Top Sites screen has been terribly "destroyed"! What's the idea?

If you are referring to the non-panorama , but rather the flat look, well that's what they did.
You can give your opinion here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback

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