Safari acting odd, 70% of time, some page contents vanish when browsed over

Question

Hi there,
& bear w/ me. It always hard to describe a problem when you've become confused, and run down lots of blind alleys.
Safari has been having increasing trouble opening pages, often -- but not always __ hanging in midload much longer then I'm used to.
Fearing a possible virus or such ( in my uninformed way ) I started a Norton AntiVirus scan of the HD. If there's a way to scan mail seperatety , I don't know it....perhaps that's the province of spam-filters ?
While this hours long scan has been running, I've gone ahead & tried some normal business. ( foolishly ? )
First on a Symantec page, then MySpace, moving the browser would cause all contents to "fold up" and dissappear ??! ( they were later seen to be fine )
Would that be due to having the scan running, or have I got some broken Safari on my hands ?
--TIA--
~~~=Dave
iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   Intel / 20 " / 2 GB Ram / "500" GB memory / LaCie 500 GB external. . .

Answer 1

Hi again Dave,
Sorry for the slow reply, I've been very busy last few days.
Yes, if Safari is behaving best not to rush into anything.
problems, always shy when you are armed with a screenshot: )
I do wonder how Safari behaves in a test or other account.
Do any other applications behave oddly?
On Mac Intel, the worst Norton products to run are SystemWorks and Norton Utilities.
Some talk on NAV, & other utilities from a topic with with some very experienced users.
Productivity & Utilities Intel software
Note the notice on the bottom of the download page.
• On ClamXav- It seems to be more mac compatible but as you see both are mentioned.
Yes my web-mail server does scan my emails for viruses, there was 1 cleaned email in my suspect folder just yesterday,which i deleted anyway, the best aspect of Earthlink, my ISP.
• On Console~ go to Applications -> Utilities, click & hold the mouse down on the Console App, drag it to the Dock, [make sure the Console remains in the Utilities folder as well] for easy access..This just makes an Icon for the dock the original should remain in it's respective location, storing any applications in folders other then where they belong causes problems,
such as they will not update when the os is updated.
Once you have the console in the Dock, open it.
Under the Console menu, "Preferences", set the console to bounce when an open log is written to.
Now dock the console using the yellow candy button,thus making it an open log
close: red button, yellow: dock [also called minimized], green minimize / maximize window size.
If Safari does this oddness, as before & you see the console bounce,
look to see what message is logged,
Note that there is a lot written to the log that maybe inconsequential to the problem, for instance these sort of messages...
Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL https: //webmail.pas.earthlink.net/wam/index.jsp?x=-490342274 from frame with URL https: //ad.doubleclick.net/adi/
[or]Safari ATSUFontFallback........etc.... a lot is written to it.
See Console's Help for more info.
It does sound as if the trial item you spoke of, Deja vu be best removed / it maybe the/ a culprit.
Oh heavens if you want to read some writings that are hard to interpret, read some of my earlier attempts to help & not so early ; (... lol oh please don't waste your time~!!
So many more interesting & comprehensive things to read & learn.
a couple of links on the Console in AD and how to view & size..
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3062161&#3062161
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1894561
This article maybe helpful, your fonts being out of order can also be problematic though usually it affects more then 1 application,
Kurt Lang's ~ Font Management in Mac OS X e
I don't know if any of this helps you any, I hope so. Please keep us posted
Regards,
Maria/Eme'~[)