Safari beachballs?

[Tomb01]

Am on the latest Mac OS and Safari. I have a constant problem using Safari where after loading a page, I get a spinning beachball. Reloading the page sometimes stops it, but it is quite annoying. Am 'assuming' it is flash related, and have made certain I have the latest plugin installed, but it continues...

Am I right in that this is Flash related? And is there anything I can do to stop this behavior (other than switching browsers).

 

[The Hammer]

Why do you need flash now? Isn't it on the way out?

 

[Tomb01]

Why do you need flash now? Isn't it on the way out?

Not sure I need flash, or that it is actually the problem. Trying to understand why Safari beachballs on some pages, requiring a restart or reload.

 

[worldvirus]

Without knowing more I'd suspect a plugin, maybe an adblock one?
I'm finding safari slower and slower too. As features keep disappearing I'm finding I'm just using chrome or firefox more and more

 

[Audit13]

Does the beach ball effect show up in other programs?

This beach ball effect is a common problem in Macbooks that use sata hard drives in that the sata cable may be failing.