Forgot to add/ask -- this is all happening on my G4 Quicksilver 867 --
is an 867 MHz processor too slow?!
On 3/25/11 12:35 PM, Dan wrote:
At 12:13 PM -0400 3/25/2011, Yersinia wrote:
Goshdarn, I'm getting even more swiss-cheese-for-brain than I
thought! :-(
No, yer just up against a really bad interface. Apple bungled this one.
2. Safari's preferences, Bookmarks tab. Uncheck "Include Top Sites".
Unchecked -- already was, however.
3. Bookmarks window. If the webpage preview thingy is showing,
grab its size slider and push up until it vanishes.
Ummm, hmmm -- what bookmarks window? The one you get when you click
Bookmarks, then Show All Bookmarks, or the one in Preferences? I
didn't see a webpage preview thingy, or anything that I recognized as
one, or any kind of slider, in the first, and in Preferences it's all
checkboxes no icons or sliders.
"Show All Bookmarks".
Top Sites is sortof / seems to be related to Cover Flow. The setting
in the Bookmarks tab of Safari's preferences removes the Top Sites
icon from the bookmarks bar and seems to mostly turn off the
function. Then, in the regular Bookmarks window, there's the Cover
Flow stuff at the top. If you don't see it, then either your CPU is
too slow (so Safari supressed it) or you've already moved the slider
all the way up and it disappeared. To get it back (yuk lol), move
your mouse cursor into the black area to the left of the Search box in
that bookmarks window. When the cursor turns into a hand, mouse down
then drag about 3/4 of the way down the window - the cover flow stuff
should reappear, and the background task that generates the previews
will start up.
4. Reset Safari dialog. Check "Reset Top Sites" and "Remove all
webpage preview images" and "Empty the cache". For an added
performance kick, check "Remove all website icons". Then hit the
Reset button. Wait about 10 seconds and quit Safari.
Hmmmm, OK. I do Reset Safari frequently anyway (already set to Reset
Top Sites, Empty the Cache, Clear Downloads Window, Remove Other
Autofill form text, and yes, Remove all webpage preview images). OK,
time to add Remove all website icons. Done. Result of restart: Still
have the Top Sites apparently working, with the original ones Apple
programs in there it looks like. I suppose I'll need to do that
Bookmarks window thingy you suggest once you tell me what it is, and
try again, and then if necessary,
Lemme know if above works. Maybe you'll need to turn it all on, then
turn it all off or something.
- Dan.
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