Safari crashes

[Yester5]

Anyone know a way to keep Safari from instantly crashing? Worked fine when I first installed the Big Sur beta but now I’m forced to use Chrome as my browser. Thanks

 

[LlamaLarry]

On DP3 Safari would crash for me every time I opened the app or a new blank tab. Went away for me with DP4, although Safari crashing randomly is my most common defect. I uninstalled AdGuard's Safari extension and it seemed to help some, but not entirely.

 

[Yester5]

I’m not running any extensions at all and it crashes so fast, the app barely even flashes an outline. Then the crash report window appears. I tried holding down SHIFT while launching and I’ve rebooted to reset NVRAM. Nothing has helped

 

[Have a cigar]

Same here. But Safari not only crashes but freezes, can't force quit and macOS freezes as well. Using Firefox not an option, crashes all the time as well. Seems like a lot of work still to do before out-of-beta. I keep sending reports to Apple, it might help.

 

[ParagJain]

Same here. But Safari not only crashes but freezes, can't force quit and macOS freezes as well. Using Firefox not an option, crashes all the time as well. Seems like a lot of work still to do before out-of-beta. I keep sending reports to Apple, it might help.

I have the same issue - Safari was the biggest reason for me to jump on the public beta, for now using microsoft Edge. Ah well, I was using Edge on Catalina as well 🙄🥴

 

[Have a cigar]

I have the same issue - Safari was the biggest reason for me to jump on the public beta, for now using microsoft Edge. Ah well, I was using Edge on Catalina as well 🙄🥴

Ah! Will try Edge. Even if it's only till final version of Big Sur. Thx.

 

[Yester5]

I think I fixed the problem. After reading some other threads in the developers forum, something on my Start page must have been causing the issue. I was able to launch Safari by typing a URL in the Spotlight search field and once safari launched, it stayed open. I then went into safari preferences and set my start page to an empty page. Same for a new page for a new tab. Seems to work fine now 🙂

 

[ParagJain]

I think I fixed the problem. After reading some other threads in the developers forum, something on my Start page must have been causing the issue. I was able to launch Safari by typing a URL in the Spotlight search field and once safari launched, it stayed open. I then went into safari preferences and set my start page to an empty page. Same for a new page for a new tab. Seems to work fine now 🙂

thanks .. let me try this for few days ..

 

[ParagJain]

Hi - this is the crash report that I get; any help to identify the root-cause, is it my system or if this is happening on other systems as well.

Process: Safari [337]
Path: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Identifier: com.apple.Safari
Version: 14.0 (16610.1.23.1.3)
Build Info: WebBrowser-7610001023001003~3
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: Safari [337]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2020-08-16 10:04:48.146 +0530
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.16 (20A5343j)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: B9C8846E-7DC9-8AE3-51C1-51F6F176823D


Time Awake Since Boot: 880 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [337]

VM Regions Near 0:
-->
__TEXT 101194000-101198000 [ 16K] r-x/r-x SM=COW /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_platform.dylib 0x00007fff6d3c50a9 _platform_memmove$VARIANT$Haswell + 41
1 com.apple.SkyLight 0x00007fff6000bc79 __CGPixelAccessDataInitialize + 683
2 com.apple.SkyLight 0x00007fff6000b979 __CGPixelAccessAccessWindowData + 423
3 com.apple.SkyLight 0x00007fff600bc553 SLPixelAccessCreateImageFromRect + 570
4 com.apple.SkyLight 0x00007fff60203979 SLWindowContextCreateImage + 261
5 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff2a7e3d82 CreateCGSWindowImage + 41
6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff2a7e3cd4 CacheMenuPixelsWithTrackingData(OpaqueMenuRef*, Rect const*, MenuTrackingData const*) + 265
7 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff2a901ecf ShowAndCacheMenu(MenuSelectData*, MenuData*, unsigned char, Rect const*, __CFArray*, unsigned char) + 164
8 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff2a8fea83 DrawTheMenu(MenuSelectData*, MenuData*, __CFArray**, unsigned char, unsigned char*) + 879
9 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff2a7efc8c MenuChanged(MenuSelectData*, unsigned char, unsigned char) + 513
10 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff2a9017fa TrackMenuCommon(MenuSelectData&, unsigned char*, SelectionData*, MenuResult*, MenuResult*) + 1146
11 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff2a7ef86a MenuSelectCore(MenuData*, Point, double, unsigned int, OpaqueMenuRef**, unsigned short*) + 375
12 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff2a7ef65e _HandleMenuSelection2 + 460
13 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff28e72e2d _NSHandleCarbonMenuEvent + 215
14 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff28e72c9a _DPSEventHandledByCarbon + 54
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff28cb7550 -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 2959
16 com.apple.Safari.framework 0x00007fff5d1f689a -[BrowserApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 231
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff28ca93fa -[NSApplication run] + 586
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff28c7d224 NSApplicationMain + 816
19 com.apple.Safari.framework 0x00007fff5d1df395 SafariMain + 469
20 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff6d199851 start + 1

 

[matram]

The trace indicates that the starting point is a menu event, what did you do, if anything?

Then apparently core graphics is accessing non existant memory when trying to create an image?

Have you reported this to apple?

 

[ParagJain]

The trace indicates that the starting point is a menu event, what did you do, if anything?

Then apparently core graphics is accessing non existant memory when trying to create an image?

Have you reported this to apple?

Reported to Apple yes, I tried to open a new window - so your analysis of menu-event as starting point could be accurate.
Will continue to monitor and report and hope it gets fixed sooner than later.

thx.

 

[Channelsurfer63]

Same problems here, but in my case at least, I found that by using the Safari Technology Preview, the freeze and crash issue has all but vanished.
This is with 2 extensions enabled as I had with the regular Safari browser; Honey and Duck Duck Go.

Give it a shot if you haven't and have been having so much trouble that you were almost afraid to surf the web.

 

[ParagJain]

May be too early to ask - but for people who have installed the developer 5, is safari working fine or is it still randomly crashing the entire system ? thx.

 

[Channelsurfer63]

In my first few hours on the build with perhaps only 45 minutes of safari time, I had one freeze that forced a manual power down to recover the system. This was after installation of db5 prior to a restart/shut down which I personally like to do after it has run several hours or overnight.
So not promising here just yet, but if after several days it holds up then I will post again if others have not beat me to the punch.

 

[LlamaLarry]

What the the version of the Safari Tech Preview vs DP5? Version 14.0 (16610.1.25.1.3) is what I show after installing DP5.

 

[Channelsurfer63]

16610.1.25.5.1 is the version of Safari Tech Preview that was more stable for me with far fewer incidents. I am still at only one problem with the new Safari included in the DB5 package.

 

[mikiotty]

No issues here with Safari on a 13" rMBP Late 2013. The only issue I have is a big stutter when I enter or exit fullscreen mode in a Youtube video.

 

[ParagJain]

So far, Safari does seem to be much better than before; Just couple of hours of usage, no crash as yet.
Lets hope this was the update I was looking for Safari.

 

[ParagJain]

Safari was good from last few days and suddenly, it has started to freeze the system again; No new software has been installed,
Is Safari stable for others ?

Again, the crash has happened twice when trying to open news related websites ..

 

[ParagJain]

Finally, Safari has been super stable now and it surely is fast..