On 3/25/11 2:08 PM, Dan wrote:
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.
My iBook is 800 MHz. But I want to straighten up the Quicksilver first.
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>
Thank you. I've never seen this before on any of my Macs! Well at least
now I know what I'm looking for!
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.
OK, finally got the little hand back and was able to pull the black
strip all the way down. But it's still all black. Guess I'll have to
check in with it later huh?
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.
Oh, so there IS no way to totally disable it?
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