Dear David, I don't know why Safari may give the response busy. My understanding is that the application is doing something, such as loading a page and is spending all of its time processing, whatever it thinks it needs to process. What I really suspect is that there is some sort of conflict with voice Over, the web page or the application. Basically, I wait no more than thrity seconds. If the "BUSY" response has not stopped by then, I will do one of two things: either command-tab to another application such as FINDER, wait a few seconds and then command-tab back to my application, or turn off Voice Over with command-F5 and then I wait a few seconds and then toggle Voice Over back on again. If neither of these is successful in resolving the "BUSY", I will bring up the Force Quit window with command-option escape. force Quit will bring up a list of open applications. You interact with the table and select the offending application. I cannot remember when Force Quit did not work . then I open the application again. Most of the time I do not have a problem for the rest of the session. I almost never know what caused the problem in the first place. I hope this helps. Sincerely Yours, robert> > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >