The dreaded spinning color wheel
As a long-time OS 9 and now new OS X user, I have only one complaint: the dreaded spinning color wheel that appears when something goes slightly wrong while browsing. It may be that a page only partially loads and then locks up, and usually it just spins for a few seconds and then goes away and all is well.
But sometimes it just keeps spinning, and there's nothing I can do short of a force quit of Explorer. In OS 9, there was never anything like this: with the old spinning cursor, you could always just hit "stop" and then refresh the page, or move on to another one.
What can I do the next time I get the dreaded spinning color wheel, and don't want to stare at it for 3 minutes?
But sometimes it just keeps spinning, and there's nothing I can do short of a force quit of Explorer. In OS 9, there was never anything like this: with the old spinning cursor, you could always just hit "stop" and then refresh the page, or move on to another one.
What can I do the next time I get the dreaded spinning color wheel, and don't want to stare at it for 3 minutes?
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Originally posted by grimson
As a long-time OS 9 and now new OS X user, I have only one complaint: the dreaded spinning color wheel that appears when something goes slightly wrong while browsing. It may be that a page only partially loads and then locks up, and usually it just spins for a few seconds and then goes away and all is well.
But sometimes it just keeps spinning, and there's nothing I can do short of a force quit of Explorer. In OS 9, there was never anything like this: with the old spinning cursor, you could always just hit "stop" and then refresh the page, or move on to another one.
What can I do the next time I get the dreaded spinning color wheel, and don't want to stare at it for 3 minutes?
Use another browser (e.g. Safari)
checkout safari and OmniWeb... they both have spellcheck as you type built in (like microsoft word) very convenient. Also you can block popups and banner ads without obscuring content, not to mention the great speed and stability improvements over IE. Check them out!