Nope not intended that way at all, just a phrase someone used up the thread.
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Spinning pinwheel with Safari
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Nope not intended that way at all, just a phrase someone used up the thread.
Interesting, never thought about that and I'm signing in with my Apple account ID. I don't recall doing any changes while in Safari when it hung in Beach Ball mode. In fact, one time I waited a good 20 minutes and Safari was still hung. So I force quit and restarted.
I have had ios8 Safari crash while waiting for that initial bookmark sync to happen, the code for "I can't reach iCloud to sync bookmarks" doesn't seem very robust
Even when editing bookmarks on the MBP I frequently get an "unable to edit due to bookmarks being synced, please try later" message, no I edit bookmarks only for a few minutes a month so that activity seems to be pretty near-constant despite the bookmarks not changing very frequently - ie I get it even while in the editor but no bookmarks have been edited
Focus
I chose this topic because its subject line – Spinning pinwheel with Safari – is most appropriate to what I'd like to troubleshoot (for other people, not for me):
Focus on released builds of Safari
Safari only.
Seven people – melburstein, zunairryk, skunkyjosh, applCore, Ronnoco, shenan1982 and phrozend – focused on incidents with Safari in prerelease 10.10. For the melburstein and Ronnoco cases, prerelease workarounds were found.
I'd like to know whether the other five people found the same symptoms with Safari in released OS X 10.10.1. For those five, just curiosity.
Released software only; I'll not discuss details of problems with pre-release.
Troubleshooting and explanations
When steve333 gets his first result from a sysdiagnose at the time of a spin with Safari – keying the chord for sysdiagnose whilst Safari is in front, then touching nothing until the result appears in Finder – he can open the archive to reveal spindump.txt and other files that may help readers to diagnose his case.
Resources
In Stack Exchange:
Side notes
I usually take no interest in topics that discuss mixtures of problems – things become too confused – but it should be interesting to have a methodical diagnosis for at least one case that focuses on Safari.
I chose this topic because its subject line – Spinning pinwheel with Safari – is most appropriate to what I'd like to troubleshoot (for other people, not for me):
- unexplained appearances of the spinning wait cursor in Safari in Yosemite –
Focus on released builds of Safari
Safari only.
Seven people – melburstein, zunairryk, skunkyjosh, applCore, Ronnoco, shenan1982 and phrozend – focused on incidents with Safari in prerelease 10.10. For the melburstein and Ronnoco cases, prerelease workarounds were found.
I'd like to know whether the other five people found the same symptoms with Safari in released OS X 10.10.1. For those five, just curiosity.
Released software only; I'll not discuss details of problems with pre-release.
Troubleshooting and explanations
When steve333 gets his first result from a sysdiagnose at the time of a spin with Safari – keying the chord for sysdiagnose whilst Safari is in front, then touching nothing until the result appears in Finder – he can open the archive to reveal spindump.txt and other files that may help readers to diagnose his case.
Resources
In Stack Exchange:
- the accepted answer to Spindump analysis instructions?
- both answers to How does 'stuck' (in results of 'top') relate to 'not responding' (in Activity Monitor), 'spin' or 'hang'?
Side notes
I usually take no interest in topics that discuss mixtures of problems – things become too confused – but it should be interesting to have a methodical diagnosis for at least one case that focuses on Safari.
