For the past few months, attempting to close Safari normally (Command-Q) quickly closes open browser windows, but takes forever (~10+ min) to fully close, if it closes at all.
A look at the Activity monitor shows that the sub-process Safari Webpage Preview Fetcher churns away, often at high CPU usage (~50%), for a few minutes, but then it and all other Safari related processes drop to zero CPU, but Safari still will not go away. I am only loading the default set of top sites, i.e. have not specified any particular top sites since the last time I reset Safari a few weeks ago.
This behavior existed for me under Snow Leopard, and has sadly continued after a recent upgrade to Lion. I am now running OSX 10.7.3 with Safari 5.1.3
I can of course force quit, but it would be great to be able to quit normally. I would consider stopping Top Sites all together as is described in another post, but would rather decouple that option from simply getting Safari to quit normally. I am also not sure if the top site disable even works in Lion (and am too new to comment on that thread).
How can I get Safari to close normally?
Update: this behavior is somewhat intermittent. I will try to update this question as I identify possible/reliable triggers. For now it seems opening Safari and running simple Google search doe not cause a slow close.
