Why does color wheel come on a lot

whenever i use the computer and search the web the color wheel comes up way too often   what causes that and how can i keep it form happening so much  thanks

this might be cause by small amount of memory which is available overall different causes are available for the colorful spinning wheel this might be cause by crashing of a plugin such as flash
you can get more details for the spinning wheel on these links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_wait_cursor
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html

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