My system:
PM G5 Dual 2.3 GHz, 4.5 GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.7
OmniWeb-5.5-beta-1-v601
Logitech MX700 wireless mouse with latest version (LCC20) of Logitech Control Center (LCC).
I see this in situations like:
1.*Using the Back button to return to a list of topics on the Apple Discussions, e.g.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=758
after reviewing a given topic. For example, go to that page, select a topic, click back to return to that page.
2. Logging in to the Omni forums: short beach ball (spinning wait cursor) between screen confirming I'm logged-in and the presentation of the Forums home.
3. Most of the time I'm seeing the beach ball when using the Back and Forward buttons.
4. However, I've also seen the beach ball appear while OW is loading simple pages, like Apple's KB search (
http://search.info.apple.com/) in a new browser window. When loading or reloading this page, Activity Monitor shows OW %CPU go from 10-12% up to 31% then 106.5% (beach ball) then back to 10%.
5. I've seen OW %CPU temporarily jump over 100% when loading these pages:
•
http://www.filemaker.com/
•
http://www.palm.com/us/software/desktop/mac.html
or when using the Back/Forward keys to navigate between them.
For example, display the Filemaker page, then the Palm page, then go back to the FileMaker page, then Forward to the Palm page. Clicking Forward may result in a quick beach ball, then the Palm page loads quickly, but them move the mouse pointer over it or try to use the scroll wheel and the beach ball appears for a few seconds.
6. My PM G5 is
very lightly-loaded and only two browser windows are open: one with one page displayed, a second with four loaded tabs. Flash is turned off, no animated or other high-bandwidth/resource content, virtually all advertising filtered.
Pages in view:
Browser Window 1: Yahoo Finance list of stock quotes.
Browser Window 2: Has four tabs:
- Google
- Apple KB Search (
http://search.info.apple.com/)
- A list of my 100 recent posts on Apple KB search
- Apple's "Using Tiger" Discussion (
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=758)
These two windows are part of a workspace.
The beach balls are a bit annoying, considering that I'd not seen this behavior with my workspace in OW 5.1.3, same mouse, version of LCC, etc.
;-) Doc
http://www.thexlab.com