OS X :: Any Way To Disable Safari Top Sites Feature
Nov 15, 2009
I love safari. Its fast, looks great, and does everything I want it to. Outside of poor flash support (I hear macs in general are just bad for flash) everything works. What I don't like in safari is the top sites feature. I don't mind that it keeps track of which websites i visit most often, but I hate how it takes a little snapshot of every website and saves it in the website preview folder in the cache.
I didn't know you had to manually delete it and when I did it was taking up over 1.5 gb of space (/user/library/caches/com.apple.safari/website previews). I don't understand why apple couldn't have just made top sites show your most commonly visited website (like chrome or opera) and instead had to take on the website previews. Is there a way to disable top sites or at least prevent it from saving previews of websites everytime I use it?
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Mar 29, 2012
I have set [URL] as a top site. However the Citibank page does not display correctly when viewing all of my top sites. The error message for the Citibank page reads "Your browser is not accepting cookies." When i click on the page, it does fully load. Â
Citibank is the only page that does not display correctly within the top sites window display. I have attempted to changed the cookie settings with no success. Is anyone else expierencing this problem with Citibank?
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MacBook Pro 15", iOS 4
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Mar 15, 2010
Does anyone know of a way I can disable Java on some sites in Safari, but have it enabled for the rest? I don't see an option natively, but maybe there is a plugin or a plist that can be edited?
The reason is my university uses Blackboard / Vista and every time I log in it asks me if I want to allow it to run. I refuse to do so, and it doesn't have an option to never allow it to run for this site.
Please don't bother posting if you do not know the difference between Java and JavaScript.
Running the latest version of Safari on OS 10.6.2
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Jun 9, 2010
I upgraded to Safari 5 yesterday, and I am finding the new URL autocomplete to be the most obnoxious thing I have ever dealt with. Is there any way to disable URL autocomplete all together, or revert it to its old behavior?
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Nov 6, 2009
Anyway to disable this? I can in Firefox but can't figure it out in Safari. They're taking them from the bookmarks, not the history, FYI
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Jul 27, 2010
Anyone know how to disable the new feature in Hotmail? I hate that when I login to check email it automatically signs onto MSN messenger and everyone can contact me when all I want to do is check my email. Is this the right area to post?
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Apr 17, 2009
I manually put a couple of sites into the top sites area.. but then even after 'pinning' them into the sites area, they disappear when i re open safari.. it's really bugging me. can anyone help me out with this?
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Jun 13, 2012
Was wondering if there is some way to disable the auto-open cursor hover feature? (Not sure what else to call it). It's driving me nuts.It's most disfunctional with Safari--for example when I'm trying to find a specific webpage in the Histor-- if I don't keep moving the cursor constantly, whatever URL the cursor happens to be over will just open and load.Then I have to start over again. This seems to happen sometimes on the desktop as well.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)
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Dec 11, 2014
How do I disable this feature? It was automatically enabled when I attempted to sort my icons. I cannot undo it as the option is now greyed out.
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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May 28, 2012
How can I disable the system feature which automatically restarts applications i had open during a previous session ?
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Feb 25, 2009
I accidentally clicked the X on the top sites page and the site isn't repopulating on my top sites. Does anyone know how to reset the safari 4 top sites, i have deleted the preference files, reinstalled the software, and trashed my history, but still it wont reset.
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Apr 9, 2012
I have tried everything that I have read on how to add a site to Top Sites. With two windows open, I try to drag and drop a URL, and the "plus" sign disappears and the URL does not get added to Top Sites. I have tried the top of the page, the sides, the bottom, and the middle where the previews are. It just won't drop. Yes, I've clicked Edit. I've even tried holding the Control, Option, or Command key while dropping.
I have tried adding a site using the Bookmarks, Add Bookmark and choosing Top Sites. When I do this, it does get added to the Top Sites, but when I close and reopen Safari, it is gone - not in Top Sites anymore. I have tried totally re-setting Safari. It does not make any difference. I've tried it on my Mac mini and my MacBook. I can't get it to work with either one. Is there some trick I am missing?
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mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.66 GHz, 8 GB, 500 GB
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Jan 8, 2011
Who uses Top Sites in Safari?
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Jun 8, 2009
I'm trying to add other top sites on Safari 4... I see it says "drag URL here to add a top site". Well, when I do that, I just get a icon saying I can't do that, and when I let the URL go on the window anyway, my top site is not added. So what the hell, how do I add a top site?
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Sep 2, 2009
I want to be able to open new tabs automatically when I click in a top site link. At present it only opens the clicked website in the same window/tab. I've tried defaults write com.apple.safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true. This does nothing. It has worked before i updated to Snow Leopard. I must be missing something.
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Feb 13, 2012
I'm on Lion. I've tried going to Library/Safari, but the Safari folder doesn't exist. So I can't delete topsites.plist.
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Jun 11, 2012
It seems that the Top Sites thumbnails almost never get updated. I have sites that are updated multiple times daily, and their thumbnail on the Top Sites page still show what they looked like days ago. Even when I click on one to read it and then return Top Sites, the thumbnail doesn't get updated.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 29, 2012
It seems that regardless of how I save them, my Top Sites keep changing. What's the magic trick? Â
I clicked EDIT, then I dragged URLs into the order that I wanted. Then I clicked the BLUE PUSH PIN to save, and clicked DONE. And then it was different the next time I did Command-T.
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MacBook Pro 3 GHz; Quicksilver twin 1.25 ghz; Cube, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jul 6, 2012
I just reinstalled Lion on my MacBook Pro and everything is great except for one small problem that I can't seem to solve. I'm using Safari 5.1.7 and it just won't save my Top Sites. I deleted the TopSites.plist, rearraganged and repinned the Top Sites as was instructed here and here. The Top Sites do stick for a while but then they change again. I repeated this process several times and they still keep changing.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 13-inch, Mid 2009
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Aug 28, 2010
On my other mac, when I start typing in safari's url bar, it will auto-suggest pages based on the title name of my bookmarked sites (rather than just on the [URL] address url). I just got a brand new MBP and when I start typing in letters into safari's url field, it won't auto-suggest any of the names of the bookmarked pages, it only suggests based on the actual www address. How do I get it to suggest the bookmark's names?
EDIT: On my other machine I have GLIMS installed. Is this a GLIMS' feature? I was under the impression that safari did this itself.
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Dec 4, 2010
I just got the new 15" mbp and noticed that safari top sites would scramble itself at times. I've looked around the net and seems like a normal occurrence for people with the new MBP's. My question is, what is causing it? And how do you get rid of it? Is it just a matter of turning off "automatic graphic switching" so it's running on the discrete nvidia card? Is it a software issue with flash or safari?
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Mar 6, 2009
Gave it a try but it seems to hang occasionally on familiar sites. Any hope that the production version will do better?
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Sep 9, 2009
Has anybody been having problems with Safari's new Top Sites feature? I've had Safari 4 since the day it came out on public beta, and this feature hasn't seemed to get any better. I seriously dread having to open a new tab, because it automatically opens the awful top sites list. I close my eyes and cross my fingers and pray that I don't get the beachball of death for anywhere from 10-20 seconds. Sometimes it works quickly, especially if I keep testing it over and over. It pretty much just displays a visual of the bookmarks that I already have displayed going across the top of my screen, and I usually just click on the bookmark instead of having to hunt down the page and click on it.
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Nov 23, 2009
New to the site,could someone explain to me how to clear safari top sites?
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Feb 3, 2012
Safari switches sites on me randomly?
Info:iMac
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Feb 26, 2012
It just started today. I tried opening a site inside 4shared.com and it won't open. It worked yesterday but it doesn't work today. It gives me a blank page and kept on tittering the entire time. I already updated my Mac's software. Nothings change.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), SAFARI 5.1.3
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Mar 21, 2012
I am using Safari 5.1.4 on my mac OS X 10.7.3.Recently, I had to reset Safari and Empty cache, and since then I am unable to log into some websites (e.g. url... When I enter username and password it fails log in.However, when I enter the same username and password using Chrome, Opera on the same computer and another computer the log in works fine.Other websites are all working fine: such as access to bank, my company's vpn, other user forums, etc.I have done all of the following but none has helped:
1. re-reset Safari and re-emptied cache, restarted computer and restarted Safari
2. deleted com.apple.Safari.plist files, restarted Safari
3.removed photography-on-the-net website login info from KeyChain ans restarted Safari
4.removed all Website data including cookies, and restarted Safari
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Safari, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 28, 2012
When newly launched Safari 1.3.2 it launch fine but refuses to access any sites accept apples. It simply crashes with a dialog box asking to contact Apple ( to date no response ) The unit is an Imac 600MHZ with 1G of ram. The issue is a new one. Have had no trouble in prior weeks accessing similar sites.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.3.x)
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May 9, 2012
All of my top sites previews are blank, the sites are linked fine when I click them. However, there are no images displayed at all.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1), 24" iMac Early 2009
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Jun 10, 2012
How do you erase searches in safari? When I start to enter a site address into safari, it anticipates the address with formerly visited sites. How do you erase these formerly visited sites?
Info:iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1
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