Hello, Thanks so much. It seems to have eliminated the spinning beachball when searching on ebay. David On Dec 23, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Ron wrote: > Here is another thing you can do to help speed up Safari. It helped me > quite a lot and I don't like turning JavaScript on and off. I left > caching in the 1.4.2 module on so I will have to manually empty it > periodically I guess but it took several months to get gummed up. > > Go to your utilities folder/java there are icons that are "Java 1.4.2 > Plugin Settings" and another that reads "Java 1.3.1 Plugin Settings" > double click on each of them. A window will pop up > with"general/cache/certificates" click on the "cache" and click on the > clear button. Do this for both java settings. This is from another > forum and they said to Repair permissions and restart. > > Happy and speedy browsing. > > Ron--