Safari crashes on MAC OS 10.4.11

Question

hello!! i would like to ask some help.  my safari has been crashing when i open certain websites, most especially if its youtube.  it has also been crashing on gmail and even apple support at times.  i cannot reinstall flash player because as soon as i go into the adobe site, it crashes.  i have also tried repairing disk permissions but to no avail.  i have been trying to go around this problem for the past 2 days but to no avail.  I am running on MAC OS 10.4.11 and using Safari 4.1.3.  Below is the crash report that i got from applications/utilities/console.app
Apr  1 12:07:57 Sheilas-MAC mDNSResponder: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Apr  1 12:08:13 Sheilas-MAC mDNSResponder: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
2012-04-01 12:10:45.835 Safari[245] *** -[NSBundle load]: Error loading code /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/PlugIns/FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin/Contents/MacOS/FlashPlay er-10.6 for bundle /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/PlugIns/FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin, error code 4 (link edit error code 4, error number 0 (Symbol not found: _CFStringCompareWithOptionsAndLocale
  Referenced from: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/PlugIns/FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin/Contents/MacOS/FlashPlay er-10.6
  Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
Apr  1 12:17:11 Sheilas-MAC crashdump[250]: Safari crashed
Apr  1 12:17:13 Sheilas-MAC crashdump[250]: crash report written to: /Users/katrinehwan/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Safari.crash.log
In HrOamApplicationGetCommandBars
2012-04-01 12:29:18.433 Disk Utility[260] CFLog (21): dyld returns 2 when trying to load /Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NUMPlugin
2012-04-01 12:29:18.433 Disk Utility[260] CFLog (22): Cannot find function pointer VRPreviewCFPlugInFactory for factory 20D1C6B2-6A02-11D7-B5A6-000393D45566 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x467c80 </Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/NUMPlugin.bundle> (bundle, not loaded)
Apr  1 12:39:08 Sheilas-MAC /usr/sbin/ocspd: starting
Apr  1 12:39:08 Sheilas-MAC /usr/sbin/ocspd: Error opening DB
Apr  1 12:39:11 Sheilas-MAC /usr/sbin/ocspd: Error opening DB
Apr  1 12:39:11 Sheilas-MAC /usr/sbin/ocspd: Error opening DB
Apr  1 12:39:11 Sheilas-MAC /usr/sbin/ocspd: Error opening DB
Apr  1 12:49:10 Sheilas-MAC crashdump[273]: Safari crashed
Apr  1 12:49:11 Sheilas-MAC crashdump[273]: crash report written to: /Users/katrinehwan/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Safari.crash.log
Iwould appreciate any help as i hve not been able to do work due to this crashes.
thank you very much

Answer 1

I understand what you're saying and I don't believe it is the result of anything you did.
The problem with websites and especially YouTube is that they are constantly evolving and placing greater demands on existing consumer hardware and software. Bear in mind the people who get paid to develop websites are using workstations that cost several thousand dollars, and they like to impress their clients with splashy, garish, gratuitous animation that you and I probably consider needless visual clutter. Your computer's ability to evolve and cope with these greater demands is limited, even though it remains every bit as capable of doing what it did the day you bought it.
The "limited ability" in this case is Safari which is stuck at version 4.1.3 as long as your Mac OS is Tiger. Later Safari versions will almost certainly cope with these newer websites. Whether or not it would be beneficial for you to upgrade your Mac OS to Leopard / Snow Leopard so that you can use Safari 5 is another question, to which I can only reply "maybe" until knowing your specific model MacBook.
Do I need to install flash player again?
If you want to view Flash videos and such content then yes - you should always remove Flash Player (as you just did) before reinstalling it - this is an idiosyncrasy with Flash.
However, you would benefit by the ability to block unwanted Flash content. The Safari plugin ClickToFlash it will intercept all Flash content so that you will at least know when a website requires it, enabling you to control when it gets loaded. It is not uncommon to see a Flash advertisement gobbling nearly all your computer's resources for its own selfish purposes. In many cases the advert may have appeared in a "popup window" that you didn't even know about, or off the top or bottom of a Safari window where you don't notice it. The computer user is then left in complete frustration since all he knows is that his computer has slowed to a crawl and starts wondering if his Mac was infected by some ick. The "ick" was Flash.
Read about and download ClickToFlash for your Tiger MacBook here:
http://clicktoflash.com
It's free.
After that, by all means go ahead and instal Flash Player again.
A lot of computer users are get all emotional and opinionated about Flash. In my opinion, it's your computer, and you should always remain in control of it. ClickToFlash will help you do that.