Safari has been crashing for me every time I open it. It's mostly on sites like YouTube, which leads me to believe that it's a flash problem. When I open the page it just freezes up and the pinwheel just keeps spinning and spinning. I noticed these problems on my MacBook after I upgraded to Snow Leopard, and now they are arising again on my recently purchased Mac Pro (also running SL). I'm running latest version of SL, Safari, and Flash.
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Safari crashes CONSTANTLY
- Thread starter Michael D
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I have been experiencing these SAME problems. It seems like almost ALL video sites give safari a brain fart. I've sent HUNDREDS of complaints through the bug report system telling them how ridiculous it is. I have no idea why either. My system is running fine in all other aspects. It's a recent problem too. Maybe 2-3 months now? I at the point where I'm gonna just stop using it. Every day I average 3 crashes. Sometimes more, hardly ever less.
Which video sites? From Leopard to Snow Leopard, Safari has never ever crashed once for me. I get beachballs, but only on Flash sites. Try resetting Safari.
I had the same problem, then I did the following and reduced the problem quite a bit (although not solved completely):
1. repair disk permissions on the boot drive
2. inside safari, re-install flash from the flash site
3. repair permissions again.
4. reboot
Hope this helps!
1. repair disk permissions on the boot drive
2. inside safari, re-install flash from the flash site
3. repair permissions again.
4. reboot
Hope this helps!
To me this sounds like a lot of stupid advice because how did your flash files get corrupt? and what does the disk permissions have to do with flash?
If you have the latest version of flash installed then whats the purpose of reinstalling it?
Crashes here too, plus that bloody beach ball spends more time on my screen than at the sea side, I'm starting to thin that Snow Leopard is looking like a load of crap. My system has slowed down considerably and more annoying is I used to burn my monthly company webcast to dvd to watch in comfort rather than in front of the screen in the office. What used to take 1hr 57 mints to burn a 42 minute report now takes 2 hours 49 minutes.
I am having exactly the same problems. It doesn't matter which web browser I use they all crash doing fairly light browsing.
I've tried reinstalling flash and resetting firefox and safari with no success. I really don't want to have to reinstall snow leopard as I only did that three weeks ago!
I've tried reinstalling flash and resetting firefox and safari with no success. I really don't want to have to reinstall snow leopard as I only did that three weeks ago!
The advice might not solve the problem, but it's not stupid. For a long time, Adobe products like Flash Player have installed with incorrect permissions, and this has led to many Safari-related crashes. Repair permissions, and there's a good chance that lots of Adobe-related files will have their permissions fixed.
