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Safari crashes A LOT on Snow Leopard.

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Boesky

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Jul 16, 2009
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I thought they were supposed to be fine-tuning this program? What happened?
 
Well, if you provide more information such and what kind of sites it happens at or provide your safari version or if you have any plugins, and look if there are any console messages after the crash or a crash log to look at and then maybe we can help you. Or perhaps you just want to whine.

Console: /Applications/Utilities/
Crash Logs: ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/

I've had no issues yet.
 
I've actually found Safari more stable in SL. As was said before, send your crash logs to Apple. Also do you have any input manager plugins that causing this?
 
I'd certainly be happy to take a look at any crashlogs. I may or may not remember this thread exists later though; I'll try to check on it.
 
str1f3 said:
I've actually found Safari more stable in SL. As was said before, send your crash logs to Apple. Also do you have any input manager plugins that causing this?
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Safari under Snow Leopard would be nothing but Crash Reporter for me. :eek:

I can't use any browser for that matter under Snow Leopard.
 
flash was troublesome for me in safari and hulu desktop until i repaired permissions. maybe that's what's making safari crash for you.
 
Safari is extremely unstable for me too and I can't pin point what it is that's causing it. It even crashed when I was in gmail. This is the first time in many years that a browser is causing so much trouble. Firefox has also been doing the same thing, unfortunately.

Next time it happens I'll post the log.
 
When uploading files at for example as Gmail-attachments or photos to imageshack.us makes Safari crash. I've uninstalled and installed Adobe Flash several times, I've also repaired permissions...

Safari 4.0.3 (6531.9)
Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1

Internetplugins:
Flash Player.plugin
flashplayer.xpt
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.webplugin
JavaPluginCocoa.plugin

Crash Report ("Gmail attach a file"-crash):
http://pastebin.com/f197af0bb
 
fselin said:
When uploading files at for example as Gmail-attachments or photos to imageshack.us makes Safari crash. I've uninstalled and installed Adobe Flash several times, I've also repaired permissions...

Safari 4.0.3 (6531.9)
Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1

Internetplugins:
Flash Player.plugin
flashplayer.xpt
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.webplugin
JavaPluginCocoa.plugin

Crash Report ("Gmail attach a file"-crash):
http://pastebin.com/f197af0bb
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That appears to be a hang rather than a crash; it looks like it's occurring in the code that attempts to determine whether your internet connection is currently working correctly. Perhaps your connection dropped just as the upload was starting (obviously this shouldn't hang the app, but it would explain why you're seeing it and many others aren't)?

<edit>
Alternatively, the particular thing it's hanging on seems to be PPP related; do you use PPP for your internet connection?
</edit>

<edit2>
The nightly build suggestion below applies here too; I have a vague memory of a file-upload related commit in the last week or two that could be relevant.
</edit2>
 
Flash Crashes

I have three Macs at this location, Macbook, MacbookPro & Imac 24 inch. Two were upgraded to SL from leopard and one was a clean installation. All three crash regularly in all browsers when using any application which requires Flash. The crashes are at random points during usage and cannot be predicted. Sometimes a report is generated to send to apple, sometimes it is not.

From reading other posts on various forums it is obvious that this is a very widespread problem.
 
Hmm, Safari hasn't crashed once on me in Snow Leopard, with four different Macs (three Core Duos; Mini, iMac and MacBook, and one late 2008 MBP). I installed the first day it came out.

But then I have Click-to-flash installed so I don't get random Flash running on my machines.
 
Seeing threads like this makes me glad (somewhat) that I haven't upgraded to Snow Leopard yet. I'm still on Leopard 10.5.8 and almost never experience browser crashes of any kind, or any application crash for that matter. I do feel behind the times a little since I'm not running the current Mac OS for the first time on this machine, but I much prefer my stable machine over the "latest-and-greatest" so to speak for now at least.
 
SmugMac said:
Same. Makes me wonder if people with stability issues may be having an underlaying hardware problem?
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Unlikely. It's usually due to a combination of different usage patterns, different websites, different settings, different installed software (hacks, flash player versions, clicktoflash, etc...), and just luck. Some bugs only occur with more than one processor, but these days most people have that.

Unfortunately the only way to get a *real* view for where problem areas are is statistically over the entire OSX user base, and that requires information not accessible outside Apple.
 
running leopard CRASH

i have still not upgraded t snow.L. just yet. all my browser crash constantly. no error message. the browser freezes, beachball spins. then the mouse arrow(beachball) freezes and in 10-15 second all comes back online as if nothing happened. very frustrating. afraid to upgrade in case it gets worse. but if its not working right now i might as well go 4 it
 
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