At 11:16 PM -0500 8/24/2009, Stephen Conrad wrote: >Periodically when using my G4 Quicksilver with either Firefox or >Safari and I have a few tabs open I get the spinning beach ball. The >sites are email or ones like The Daily Kitten. >What might cause this?
The SPOD indicates that the browser was waiting for some resource to be made available. Could be slow running scripts. Could be a full HD; lack of cache space. Could be a lack of memory (the app had to page excessively). Could be ... any number of things. The Daily Kitten (disgustingly cute factor aside) has a lot of script for such a simple page. It's now 1am and it loaded quite slowly here. <http://www.getdropbox.com/gallery/610326/1/rCats?h=6c0ff6> >Also, do I want to use Dashboard? How much spare memory and CPU you gots? Dashboard is a PIG, sucking up about 40 MB RAM and a few % cpu even when inactive. Dashboard Widgets, aka Javascript applets, rarely do much that you can't already do with a real app. Me and mine - we have Dashboard disabled. FWIW, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
