Why does Safari always hang on opening a pdf?

This is getting very old - Safari hangs consistently on opening pdfs. It stalls and then I get the 'quit unexpectedly' error. Safari also hangs on a normal quit and stalls then comes up with the 'quit unexpectedly' error.
Does Apple not seem to know this? I have sent report after report on each hang and yet the problem is never addressed in a fix. I know many other mac users with the same issue.
Generally, I like Safari and don't want to go to Firefox, but likely will have to if these issues don't get addressed by Apple.
Any ideas???
Karen in Colorado

ckpeck wrote:
This is getting very old - Safari hangs consistently on opening pdfs. It stalls and then I get the 'quit unexpectedly' error. Safari also hangs on a normal quit and stalls then comes up with the 'quit unexpectedly' error.
Does Apple not seem to know this? I have sent report after report on each hang and yet the problem is never addressed in a fix. I know many other mac users with the same issue.
Given the vast majority of Mac owners do not have these problems (I must view at least 20 PDFs a day from Safari), it sounds like a configuration issue on your system.
Can you post one of the Safari crash logs, I or someone else here may be able to help you further.
Also, given this isn't actually a "Getting Online and Networking" issue, you might have more luck posting in the Safari discussion.

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