At 1:30 PM -0400 3/25/2011, Yersinia wrote:
this is all happening on my G4 Quicksilver 867 -- is an 867 MHz
processor too slow?!
Um, not sure. I think 800-MHz or so is the cut. Someone else will
have to verify; I'm at 933-MHz.
At 1:20 PM -0400 3/25/2011, Yersinia wrote:
On 3/25/11 12:35 PM, Dan wrote:
"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.
I've never even heard of Cover Flow before.
Cover Flow is the graphical page representation that you can flip
thru (supposedly) quickly, appearing at the top of the window with
the list of items below it.
Here's a pic of Cover Flow in Safari:
<http://origin.arstechnica.com/journals/apple.media/SafariStandHistoryFlow.jpg>
But OK, here's what I see on a newly opened Reset Safari/Quit and
Restart Safari/Bookmarks/Show All Bookmarks page:
The top half of the page is all black (there's a sidebar on the
left). Is the black supposed to be the Bookmarks Window? Oh no
that's right, the bottom half (white/normal) is...
Sounds like the (black) cover flow area hasn't filled in with page
previews yet. Be patient! :)
Pushing the black all the way up with the little hand gets
me....more white, less black -- kind of like a black strip across
the top of the page, and I can't get the black to drag back down (I
lost the hand).
Right. When it's pushed up all the way it goes away. To drag it
back down, you have to move the mouse around just until the cursor
turns into a hand, then mouse down. It's rather area sensitive /
tricky.
And....."Show Top Sites" STILL works and has Top Sites to show. :-(
:::::sigh:::::
Yea. Regardless of the preferences and what you've done to the
bookmarks window, if you select "Show Top Sites" from the History
menu then it will always take you there, and trigger the @#$% thread
that creates the page previews.
- Dan.
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