Crashing Macbook Pro post Lion installation
Before Xmas I downloaded OS X Lion onto my Macbook Pro from the App store. Since then it regularly crashes, something it has never done before. It only seems to happen when I am in my Yahoo mail account. Any ideas? Thanks.
I am workng in Yahoo mail and then the first thing that happens is that the mouse cursor dissappears and instead a rainbow coloured ball appears. It stays like this for one or more minutes after which the entire computer is frozen, i.e. I cant do anything else. Then the next thing that happens is that a black message box tells me that an error has occured and that I should shut down the computer by holding down the power button and then re-start the computer again.
When I re-start the computer an error message pops up and asks if I want to report this. If I press yes a lot of "code" appears. And thats about it. After that all returns to normal.....until i re-enter that Yahoo mail account.
Thanks for all the help so far.
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