unstable webbrowsers in leopard

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  1. aneftp, Mar 7, 2008

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    Help.

    This has been happening tonight.

    Seems like everytime I open firefox/camino/safari; they all crash/stalled with the balloon ball spinning all the time. Sometimes my entire system freezes.

    The weird thing is that I can open and run other Non-web browser programs like iTunes, MS Word, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop fine while the web browsers are still spinning and not responding.

    I tried to do some research and installed the Leopard Cache Cleaner but that did not help

    My macbook is only 1 week old and it's got 4GB of RAM. It's not a memory problem because the Activity monitor says I have more than 3GB of RAM available. I am not running any thing else.

    I have Mac OS 10.5.2. The only software I've installed is MS Office 2k8, Adobe CS3 Design Premium.

    I really do not want to do a clean install at this point.
     
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  2. Emrtr4, Mar 7, 2008

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    no ****? Exact same thing has been happening to me, like no joke. Each browser I have. I did the firmware update for the keyboard and that seemed to resolve it but now my internal keyboard is on the fritz. Wtf is going on?
     
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  3. narcolept, Mar 7, 2008

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    disable javascript in Safari, should fix it.
     
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  4. mleibowi, Mar 7, 2008

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    I'm having the same issues. Just got a macbook, installed 4gb of memory. Espn and other 'commercial' websites are causing my macbook to freeze. WTF? I'm a mac newbie, first one. Didn't expect this issue!!!
     
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  5. nl2134, Mar 7, 2008

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    This is totally happening to me also!

    I have a brand new Penryn BlackBook...and a day ago, all those intensive websites were working, and now, they're not.

    I even downloaded Camino to see if it'd work, and of course, it doesn't...
     
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  6. SFStateStudent, Mar 7, 2008

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    What Safari are you running?

    PM me if you could please. I'm concerned about Leopard and the current Safari browser. Thanks :cool:
     
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  7. mleibowi, Mar 8, 2008

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    Today, I the same sites that caused safari to freeze didn't? Not sure why this happening. Any thoughts? Also, my fan seems to running audibly loud!
     
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  8. Pacer69, Mar 9, 2008

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    On the fan thing, see if something is in your print queue...trying to print at a printer that's not connected, not turned on, not on your network, etc. Someone else posted on fan noise and that was the problem. Delete the job, the non-existing printer, etc. if that's the issue.

    Anybody else having this browser issue on your new Penryn MacBook? Sounds like it went away...
     
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  9. Pacer69, Mar 9, 2008

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    It may be a weird Flash error that was wreaking havoc across all Macs the other day. I posted this to another thread here about ESPN causing browser crashes on their page and even on others. There is also a hefty discussion here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1431695

    Seems like the problem went away on its own for many users. If not for you, this was the gist of the solutions:

    1. Restart your computer. If that alone doesn't fix it...

    2. Try this:

    1) Reboot
    2) Open Safari (and I'd assume this "Empty Cache" trick applies to other browsers)
    3) Click Safari, Empty Cache
    4) Open ESPN.com


    3. And if those don't work:
    Go to Safari (or Camino) preferences, and un-check the box that says "enable plugins". You can go to all of those sites without the spinning beachball.
     
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  10. Macintosh Sauce, Mar 9, 2008

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    Try using Flock - I am liking it more than Safari.
     
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