MacRumors blows up my Safari!

[MatthewCobb]

Three times I've tried to read the forum on iWork06, and three times my Safari has blown up. Other forums seem fine. What are you hiding in there?

(And yes I have got 10.4.4 with snappier, zippier, exactly-the-same Safari 2.0.3)

[edesignuk]

How do you read the forums with iWork06? :confused:

[MatthewCobb]

How do you read the forums with iWork06? :confused:

Ho-ho. "about" not "on", There is a forum entitled "Apple Releases iWork '06 (72)". It makes Safari go "bing" and I think there are a bunch of lizard-like aliens in there discussing how to take over the world. Either that or there's something odd about the forum (or my Safari). But which?

[Nermal]

That thread works fine for me. My iMac's fan speeds up for a second, but nothing crashes/beachballs/bings. Try repairing permissions (in Disk Utility).

[MatthewCobb]

Try repairing permissions.

I did that this morning to get over that damn Word "font is damaged" nonsense which reappeared during its mis-named "font menu optimization" process following the installation of 10.4.4, but here goes again.

For what its worth, repairing permissions does seem to be the equivalent of "kissing it better"...

[MatthewCobb]

Nope, no luck. Hang, a flashing Beachball of Death, then Safari Implosion and a polite invitation to tell the folk at Apple what happened.

What IS being talked about in that forum?

This happen to anyone else (PB 15 titanium 1ghz)?

[MatthewCobb]

OK, now I'm getting annoyed. It's STILL doing it, but clearly other people aren't having the same problem - two more of those suspected alien lizards have posted in there since I first went bing (the count's up to 74).

[szark]

That's a strange issue. It could be an advertisement that is somehow causing it to crash.

See if you can go directly to Page 2 (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=172037&page=2) or Page 3 (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=172037&page=3).

[MatthewCobb]

See if you can go directly to Page 2 (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=172037&page=2) or Page 3 (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=172037&page=3).

Yes and Yes. Thanks! I'll just have to payout those $25 and become a MacRumors contributor!

Now - what have those lizards been saying about Keynote 3? ....

[Nermal]

That's a strange issue. It could be an advertisement that is somehow causing it to crash.

I was thinking the same thing. Matthew, test your Java (http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp) and Flash (http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/).

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Yes and Yes. Thanks! I'll just have to payout those $25 and become a MacRumors contributor!If you don't find anything wrong with Flash and/or Java (like Nermal suggested), just surf with plugins disabled in Safari. Safari preferences -> Security. (Or just switch to Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/), which doesn't crash of course... ;)).

[Veldek]

Do you have the plugin P***H***** installed (cannot write it out, hope you know what I mean)? This crashed my Safari, too, so I got rid of it.

[faintember]

This happen to anyone else (PB 15 titanium 1ghz)? I have the exact same computer, 10.4.4 and have had no problem with that thread (just checked it again before posting this).

[MatthewCobb]

I was thinking the same thing. Matthew, test your Java (http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp) and Flash (http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/).

Java is up to date, Flash is 7,0,24,0 , so no problem there either...

Can't test the problem anymore because the link has gone from the front page! (I have read the forum, no aliens, will buy iWork 06)

I don't have the P****H****** plug-in installed, Veldek (and no I don't know what it is!)

Faintember doesn't have the same problem, but we know that ads are country-based, and although Manchester used to be the City of Cotton, it isn't any more and I suspect the land of cotton isn't the UK, in which case, we aren't seeing the same ads...

Looks like it's just one of those mysteries.... Thanks for the help!