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2 finger trackpad scrolling causes browsers to crash

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techarchitect

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Jun 26, 2009
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Hello. Has anyone consistently experienced web browser crashes with both Firefox and Safari whereby you are scrolling down a page using 2 fingers and the trackpad. I was blaming Flash but it is happening all the time with even static pages!

Has anyone got any ideas or fixes or indeed is anyone else experiencing this?

Cheers

Tech
 
Chase R said:
X2...

Firefox can handle GIFs just fine but Safari is absolutely horrible with them.
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I have never had a problem in FF. What version are you running? If not 3.5RC, give it a try, it's fantasticly fast.....almost snappy if you will ;)
 
I have tried Firefox RC 3.5 and still loads of crashes/hangs etc under the supposedly stable OS X!

I have been running XP under Bootcamp now and have not had one single crash!!

Such a shame that I have to revert back to XP with my nice unibody Macbook hardware.

Cheers
 
techarchitect said:
I have tried Firefox RC 3.5 and still loads of crashes/hangs etc under the supposedly stable OS X!

I have been running XP under Bootcamp now and have not had one single crash!!

Such a shame that I have to revert back to XP with my nice unibody Macbook hardware.

Cheers
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This could be something akin to drivers going corrupt in the WinXP environment :rolleyes:

It sounds like a .ktext file got corrupted or something. You can use your restore DVDs to re-install the OS over what you have and start again or you can try and find the trackpad .ktext or even .pref files and replace them manually
 
NewMacbookPlz said:
This could be something akin to drivers going corrupt in the WinXP environment :rolleyes:

It sounds like a .ktext file got corrupted or something. You can use your restore DVDs to re-install the OS over what you have and start again or you can try and find the trackpad .ktext or even .pref files and replace them manually
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Where do the trackpad ktext and pref files live? Thanks for the info.

Cheers
 
techarchitect said:
Where do the trackpad ktext and pref files live? Thanks for the info.

Cheers
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That's going to take some exploring on my/your part :p

Also, have you applied the trackpad firmware update that was issues quite a while ago (If you're on a unibody)?
 
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