Anyone experiencing strange Safari behavior?
Over the last few weeks, I've noticed that my safari has started to quit on me. It doesn't crash, or do an unexpected quit, but the application just closes itself. This is becoming very annoying as it happens sporadically and without any indication that it will close.
The only thing I can think of is that I recently installed the latest version of the WMA viewer called Flip4Mac. Coincidence?
So, anyone else experiencing this strange behavior? Or is it just me? Is there an easy way to re-install just Safari? Maybe I'll just wait for the next bug release of OS X...
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Rudy
Hi Rudy, Huffman et al
Are you using third party safari enhancers, that may need to be either updated or removed. Do you use any Norton Utilities ?
Safari add-ons can cause performance issues or other situations
Have you tried a different user account as a process of elimination ?
The exits are NOT crashes, they do not create a CrashLog for Safari, it' s like I try to click on a link at say CNN and the Safari closes as if I had used the Quit command.
So Safari is in the Dock with out ▲ when this happens, correct ? have you tried pulling Safari out of the dock with a poof , and clicking on Safari from the Application folder, it could be your Safrai icon in the dock is corrupt.
Safari may simply go off screen without any notification.
Something has either corrupted Safari and/or is causing havoc with
the app.
Have you tried Disk repair w/ the cd/dvd inserted & a start ?
Please, let us know.
Eme
p.s. I use all the sites you mention, yes even myspace ; ) on 10.4.6 & 10.3.9. with out any issues, I wonder what are the variables.
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• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
_ Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro incl. BD-component
_ BD disks and burner if full length movies are to be stored
_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
The BD-encoded DVDs can be play-backed IF Mac also have Roxio DVD-player tool. Not on any standard Mac or DVD-player
Full BD-disks needs a BD-player (in Mac) as they need blue-laser to be read. No red-laser can do this.
• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx. 25Gb.
less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
iMovie 1 to HD6 and FinalCut any version delivers same quality as Camera record in = 100% to iDVD
• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JES_Deinterlacer_3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
1. go to iDVD pref. menu and select tab far right and set burn speed to x1 (less errors = plays better) - only in iDVD 08 & 09
(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
Yours Bengt W -
Hi-
Currently I am experiencing intermittent Safari issues I am not sure are related to Safari however have been extremely strange.
1) Sometimes when I visit www.cnn.com it goes to Sports Illustrated Vault. I think it has something to do with my cache. If I refresh the page it still goes to Sports Illustrated Vault but if I empty the cache it goes back to cnn.com
2) Sometimes I have problems getting google to load. My google searches just hang, with no error messages and I have to refresh and sometimes wait a couple of minutes
3) Sometimes pages wont fully load. The address bar wont fill up blue indicating the page is fully loaded, however it will be fully displayed. For instance when visiting CNET TV. I can watch the first show in the playlist but once I try to click to another show it wont load and I have to refresh the page. Safari seems really intermittent.
Some background info:
-This problem started when I purchased my Apple Macbook Unibody 2 weeks ago
-This problem is only on my Mac not on any of my PCsHi
Welcome to Apple Discussions
Might be a network DNS issue specific to Safari.
Go to your Apple Menu>System Preferences. Click on the Network panel. Single-click on your network connection, then select "advanced". In the DNS panel enter on separate lines:
If you live in the US - 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2
outside the US 208.67.222.220 and 208.67.220.222
Select "OK", then "apply".
Before you return to Safari, go back to the Apple Menu and select "software update". Update any items that appear (there may also be a firmware update specific to the Unibody MacBook - if there is make sure you read the directions about how to install it). If anything is being updated, return to Software Update after the Installs to make sure no other updates are required.
Lastly, via the Finder, go to your Applications>Utilities folder. There, open Disk Utility. Click on your HD, then in the First-Aid panel, select "repair permissions". This will take about 5 minutes or so.
When done, restart Safari. Go to the Safari Menu>Empty Cache. Then try a few web sites.
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Has anyone experienced problems with Mackeeper? I did not complete downloading this software. Yet, occasionally when on the internet, I will have the MacKeeper multi-colored circle replace my pointer. How do you deal with this?
Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Don't download MacKeeper. Users complain about this app and it damages OS X. Also, Mac OS X knows how to take care of itself, so you don't need any other cleaning application that may damage OS X. See > https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3691
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