Is anyone else noticing a dramatic increase in web browser crashes since upgrading to Safari 5?
I am on Version 5.0 (6533.16) with Mac OS X 10.6.3 at work – and even with flash blocked, and the extensions turned off my Safari crashes several times an hour.
Update: I upgraded to Max OS 10.6.4 and noticed no difference (Safari still crashes all the time).
Carefully loading one page at a time and it is stable. Using “Open in Tabs” to open 8-10 pages at once causes the crash every time, and nearly instantly. It does not seem to matter which pages I visit; but being more busy seems to cause the crashing faster.
Update 2: The crashing happens a lot more on Snow Leopard than it does on Leopard. Apparently Apple is aware of the bug and is able to reproduce it… I am hoping they can fix it promptly.
Update 3: Thaumar Rep suggested I check my ~/Library/Safari/Extensions folder for duplicate extensions. I de-duplicated and Safari is vastly more stable! Thank you Thaumar!
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I was searching for that topic on internet, because I have the same problem. I love the new reader feature, but I feel like returning to the early days of PC, where windows was the norm, and blue screens where as normal as blue skyes in the deserts.
That’s not the Apple way, or almost not the way it was supposed to be. Why don’t they just release it as a public beta? It worked fine with Google Chrome… None sense.
It even blocks when a page is loading and I’m trying to type something on the search bar… I have to wait until the page is loaded to be able to type… crazy…
It suddenly crashes and restarts using some web pages, with a crash report talking about javascript.
Dirt.
I have/had the same problem. I opened the Safari package and looked in the folder for extensions and there was an extension that was installed double. I removed the second version and until now Safari hasn’t crashed. Maybe it solves the problem…
Thaumar
Thank you Thaumar, I had duplicate extensions in my ~/Library/Safari/Extensions folder too and when I got rid of the duplicate Safari is suddenly much more stable.
I don’t even have an extensions folder, but I find Safari crashes a heck of a lot too. Very annoying.
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