Safari gives me the spinning wheel every time I browse, have to force-quit
Hello,
I've been having a ton of issues with Safari these past few weeks. I'm using version 3.2.1 (4524.27.1) and I've reset, trashed preferences, nuked fonts, run OnyX, repaired permissions... and I'm still having the same problems.
Basically after I've browsed for about 5 minutes, Safari will hang on whatever page I'm trying to load, whether I'm loading up pages in multiple tabs or just a single page. Sometimes I can get the page to finish loading and continue browsing if I hit "stop" and "reload" a bunch of times, but mostly I get the spinning beach ball wheel, and then Safari shows up as "not responding" in my Force Quit Applications window. The program doesn't crash - it just gives me the spinning ball until I have to force-quit, relaunch, and start over - only to do it all again.
It's driving me bonkers - I even had the cable company come out and check my cable modem connection (I'm using RoadRunner), but it was running normally.
Below is my console log from this morning, when I started up and had to force-quit Safari again. Hopefully the issue is really obvious and I can get back to normal:
Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
2008-12-03 09:53:44 -0500
2008-12-03 09:53:44.667 loginwindow[69] FSResolveAliasWithMountFlags returned err = -35
hidProduct=1095, storageProduct=1095,productName=iP6000D
InitHotplugNotification
USBAddNotifications
iP6000D
iP6000D
HIDDevice=1812800
HID Event usage = 0x0022, value = 0
HID Event usage = 0x0021, value = 0
HID Event usage = 0x0020, value = 0
2008-12-03 09:53:51.726 SystemUIServer[191] lang is:en
2008-12-03 09:53:57.235 SecurityFixer[220] No insecure startup items found!
Dec 3 09:53:57 Multiverse mDNSResponder: ReceivePortMapReply: response too short (12 bytes)
Dec 3 09:53:57 Multiverse mDNSResponder: ReceivePortMapReply: response too short (12 bytes)
Dec 3 09:53:58 Multiverse mDNSResponder: ReceivePortMapReply: response too short (12 bytes)
Dec 3 09:53:59 Multiverse mDNSResponder: NAT Port Mapping (LLQ event port.): timeout
2008-12-03 09:54:18.014 Translator[227] Invoked to sync conduit com.apple.Safari for entityNames: com.apple.bookmarks.Folder,com.apple.bookmarks.Bookmark
Debugger() was called!
Dec 3 10:14:56 Multiverse /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: doClip: empty path.
Dec 3 10:14:56 Multiverse /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: doClip: empty path.
Dec 3 10:14:56 Multiverse /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: doClip: empty path.
Dec 3 10:14:56 Multiverse /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: doClip: empty path.
Dec 3 10:14:56 Multiverse /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: doClip: empty path.
2008-12-03 10:55:50.556 dotmacsyncclient[277] * Assertion failure in -[SMSession _lockResourceAtPath:uploadPath:owner:failIfMissing:autoRenew:], /SourceCache/DotMacSyncManager/DotMacSyncManager-157/src/SMSession.m:2884
2008-12-03 10:56:20.558 dotmacsyncclient[277] * Assertion failure in -[SMSession _lockResourceAtPath:uploadPath:owner:failIfMissing:autoRenew:], /SourceCache/DotMacSyncManager/DotMacSyncManager-157/src/SMSession.m:2884
2008-12-03 10:56:50.559 dotmacsyncclient[277] * Assertion failure in -[SMSession _lockResourceAtPath:uploadPath:owner:failIfMissing:autoRenew:], /SourceCache/DotMacSyncManager/DotMacSyncManager-157/src/SMSession.m:2884
2008-12-03 10:57:20.561 dotmacsyncclient[277] * Assertion failure in -[SMSession _lockResourceAtPath:uploadPath:owner:failIfMissing:autoRenew:], /SourceCache/DotMacSyncManager/DotMacSyncManager-157/src/SMSession.m:2884
Hi everyone -
First off, thanks for all the suggestions. I've tried each one - unfortunately, Safari is still giving me the spinning wheel when I surf for more than a couple of minutes.
Taking QuicktimeKirk's advice, I did a discussions search for "DNS issue" and found several threads that recommended adding OpenDNS DNS Servers to the Network preferences pane (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220). I also registered at the OpenDNS website and installed their "OpenDNS Updater" software.
After I did this, Safari seemed to actually go to the spinning wheel, freeze-up state quicker... although I might be a bit paranoid.
I forgot to mention that I already had "Warn when visiting a fraudulent website" checked off the in the preferences pane, and replacing Safari with Firefox as the default browser unfortunately didn't make much of a difference.
I'm copying below my most recent Console log. Perhaps there's something different I need to do with DNS...? Quicktime Kirk, if you suspect it's something to do with DNS, could you please be more specific with regards to what I should be looking for? I really appreciate it.
Thanks again for all the tips, everyone. I've got my fingers crossed that with your help, I'll be back to normal soon!
Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
2008-12-03 21:44:33 -0500
2008-12-03 21:44:33.857 loginwindow[69] FSResolveAliasWithMountFlags returned err = -35
hidProduct=1095, storageProduct=1095,productName=iP6000D
InitHotplugNotification
USBAddNotifications
iP6000D
iP6000D
HIDDevice=1812800
HID Event usage = 0x0022, value = 0
HID Event usage = 0x0021, value = 0
HID Event usage = 0x0020, value = 0
2008-12-03 21:44:43.117 SystemUIServer[194] lang is:en
2008-12-03 21:44:45.850 SecurityFixer[224] No insecure startup items found!
Dec 3 21:44:46 Multiverse mDNSResponder: ReceivePortMapReply: response too short (12 bytes)
Dec 3 21:44:46 Multiverse mDNSResponder: ReceivePortMapReply: response too short (12 bytes)
Dec 3 21:44:46 Multiverse mDNSResponder: ReceivePortMapReply: response too short (12 bytes)
Dec 3 21:44:47 Multiverse mDNSResponder: NAT Port Mapping (LLQ event port.): timeout
2008-12-03 21:45:06.583 Translator[230] Invoked to sync conduit com.apple.Safari for entityNames: com.apple.bookmarks.Folder,com.apple.bookmarks.Bookmark
Debugger() was called!
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