I've Firefox and Chrome, but I prefer Safari. This problem doesn't happen with other browsers.
Okay, we've at least identified that the problem is isolated to Safari. So a few quick questions about your computer:
- What Mac do you have?
- What operating system is it on?
- If it's a newer model, did you do a clean install/setup or restore from a previous Time Machine backup?
- Have you tried a clean install?
I know this sounds really odd but my RAM previously failed on my MacBook Pro and it was causing a world of issues with Safari. As Safari is linked with the OS, issues this high may well indicate a larger problem. Forgive me for running through some additional troubleshooting. Please could you run through the below steps in the order they're given and stop/quote this message if any of them indicate a problem?
1) Check HDD/SSD SMART data (indicates if the hardware is corrupted). I use SMART Utility, direct download here:
http://cloudfront.volitans-software.com/smartutility314.zip
2) If that comes out clean, try verify the Macintosh HD volume through Disk Utility. Any errors detected?
3) If that doesn't work, try update to the latest OS (if you're not already)
4) Apple Hardware Test - rarely finds an error even when there is one, but it's worth trying. Simply hold down the
D key on startup and then select 'extended test', then run that. Should take between 15-30 minutes, depending on the speed of your computer.
5) Might be the RAM itself? Download Memtest here:
http://static.command-tab.com/2008/memtest_422.zip Then, restart in single user mode by holding Cmd+S on startup, and type in
memtest all 10 and press Enter. This will do 10 passes on the RAM -- please be aware it may take a number of hours, so if you'd rather do less passes you can simply change the number at the end. If there are any issues detected here it could be the RAM.
The latter of the three steps will take some time so if you just want to quickly check the HDD & OS volume and reply to this then we can try some other things. I'm sure other people will have more suggestions too, which are less time consuming
