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Nothing to do with bikes. More to do with Macs. And STW.
Not sure if it's me but had the dreaded wheel of death stall on lappy and work Mac a lot over last 2 days on this site - involves force quitting Safari.
Anyone else?


 
Posted : 22/02/2016 2:09 pm
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Anyone else using Safari? Not here...


 
Posted : 22/02/2016 2:11 pm
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I'm using safari on my mac - the site's been fine for a few weeks, i hardly ever have to log in anymore


 
Posted : 22/02/2016 2:24 pm
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No problem for me on macbook pro, El Cap, Safari.


 
Posted : 22/02/2016 2:31 pm
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Have a look at activity monitor - I've noticed Flash maxing out CPU on some other forums - you can kill that as a separate process


 
Posted : 22/02/2016 2:31 pm
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Have a look at activity monitor - I've noticed Flash maxing out CPU on some other forums - you can kill that as a separate process

Do people [i]still[/i] use Flash?
I thought even Adobe had more or less consigned it to oblivion.
Having said that, my iPad 3 has been struggling more and more opening pages where there's lots of activity with ads and such, and with more and more advertising being crowbarred in, I can only see it getting worse over time, unless you have the latest whizzy device with maximum RAM and high-speed processor.
One might even think it's a device manufacturers ploy to encourage updating by encouraging ever increasing advertising...
Makes you think... ™ © ® 😉


 
Posted : 22/02/2016 3:14 pm
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Have you done the Empty Cache thing from the Safari drop down menu. It seems to cure it on my Mac.


 
Posted : 22/02/2016 3:24 pm
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Same here. I'll try the above suggestions.


 
Posted : 22/02/2016 3:28 pm
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Your not a Big blue P so maybe you have the adverts loading.
How old is your Mac?


 
Posted : 22/02/2016 7:04 pm
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Perhaps try a [url= https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204063 ]reset of your NVRAM[/url], easy to do and often helps mac issues


 
Posted : 22/02/2016 7:09 pm
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Do people still use Flash?

Well plenty of websites still do, sadly.


 
Posted : 22/02/2016 7:25 pm
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Not noticed any probs with safari when on the forum but I've had bother a few times over the last few days with eBay


 
Posted : 22/02/2016 8:44 pm
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Just had an episode on STW so presumably its an ad causing the problem on either site (unless I had a window open with STW when I was having the eBay prob). Its only happened two or three times during the last week so either whatever ad it is rarely displays or doesn't cause a problem every time it does. Last few times I'm managed to just quite safari but just now everything locked up completely and I had to force the machine to shut down.


 
Posted : 24/02/2016 9:30 am