Safari hangs up after five or six different websites...

Safari on my Air pulls up five or six websites fine and then just hangs up. Works fine on my office network but not on my home network. Doesn't appear to be the router becuase my windows machine still pulls sites up fine. Limited success renewing the dhcp lease. Rebooting works pretty much all the time and with the Air it's realy fast but that doesn't seem like a fix to me.

I can relate to you and so can many others. Safari 4 for me hangs for a long time (a minute or more) on loading some sites. I have tried all the basic fixes like uninstalling plugins, clearing and resetting Safari. Repairing permissions. I even did a clean install of Snow Leopard. So I am convinced of a network issue with SL and/Or a issue with Safari. Sounds like if people using other OS like Leopard that it might be more of a Safari issue. I wish I had a solution but so far things I have tried have not been helpful.

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I can relate to you and so can many others. Safari 4 for me hangs for a long time (a minute or more) on loading some sites. I have tried all the basic fixes like uninstalling plugins, clearing and resetting Safari. Repairing permissions. I even did a clean install of Snow Leopard. So I am convinced of a network issue with SL and/Or a issue with Safari. Sounds like if people using other OS like Leopard that it might be more of a Safari issue. I wish I had a solution but so far things I have tried have not been helpful.

Safari hanging up "Page not Found" on MANY websites since 7.1.3 update installed earlier today

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A Safe Mode boot deletes some system caches that may help after an OS X update.
Top left corner of your screen click the Apple  > Shut Down.
After your Mac shuts down, wait 10 seconds, then press the power button.
Immediately after you hear the startup tone, hold down the Shift key. You should press the Shift key as soon as possible after you hear the startup tone, but not before.
Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple logo and progress indicator.
Once you are in Safe Mode, go back to the Apple  menu. From the drop down menu click: Restart
Then try Safari.
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Safari hangs when I try to open a website

I've been trying to open the Australian Open website (www.australianopen.com) for the last 4-5 days, and everytime Safari just hangs and I have to kill the job. The website doesn't open properly on IE either, but at least it doesn't get stuck. I just installed the 10.4.4 combo update and it has updated Safari to 2.0.3, but that hasn't fixed anything. Anyone have ideas? Thanks.

Welcome to Apple's user-to-user discussion forums.
I have no problems opening that page in Safari 2.0.3, Firefox 1.5, or Opera 8.51 under OS X 10.4.4. IE/Mac is having problems because it is out of date and does not support everything the page is trying to do.
The first thing I wold try is to clear Safari's cache (Safari > Empty Cache).
If IE is partially working, you could also try another modern browser, such as Firefox or Camino.

Safari hangs: not enough program memory, while 90G HD and 4G ram, OS re-installed, removed files etc. (mac book pro, leopard)

Safari hangs direct after starting up. Rainbow bol rotates around one hour after which a message is shown: "not enough program memory"
More than 90G free on HD, even removed more files and installed OS and programs again. Nothing helps.
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SIG, thanks for your reaction. After reading my question again I understand it was not clear.
The reason I mentioned the 90G free HD space was the information I found on internet about my problem in which it was assumed there was not enough RAM memory and the processor uses the HD for SWAP files?
In any way my problem is still there and I like to add some information:
MACBookPro OSX 10.6.7, 2.4 GHz duo, 4GB DDR3 RAM, L2 cache 3MB, 250 GB HD (90 GB free).
What I have done untill now:
Re-install OSX plus programs
Reboot in safe mode (cold start with shift C pressed)
A number of reports generated after a forced Safari stop were send to Apple. (by the way what are they doing with these? besides not helping me?).
Just today I learned where to find the Safari cache file's which I will empty when I am back from work tonight.
I hope, with this additional information you have some more suggestions. In any way I will come back with the result of emptying the Safari cache.

Multiple Safari hangs after installing Snow Leopard

I had 5 Safari hangs today within hours...never had one since I bought the machine in June 2009 with Leopard installed...Since the SL upgrade CD, I have had 2 system freezes that result in a complete shutdown to clear and multiple Safari hangs that I able to recover with a force quit..My daughter in college with the same machine reported that she had 3 system freezes in one day since SL...My wife who did NOT yet install the SL upgrade and is now blissfully having no problems at all and does not want to install the new OS (again same machine type, We bought 3of them in June after the announcement). I hope that this gets debugged and fixes provided...

Hi,
Mac OS X 10.5: What you can do if Safari quits unexpectedly
That links is for 10.5 but the trouble shooting will work in 10.6 also.
For system freezes try maintenance.
Maintaining Mac OS X
On the Macs you upgraded to SL, did you check to see if you had 3rd party software installed that might not be compatible? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3258
Did you repair permissions after the upgrade?
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
Carolyn

Safari Hangs after deleting :Awesome" but works for few when restrating

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I tried to look at other similar problems and tried to play around with it.
What I noticed was that I deleted the application but did not uninstall the extension.
Now I have now uninstalled the extension and Safari is back to normal.
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After security update, Safari hangs often when following links

Since the recent security update to 10.5.8 on my dual G5, I find that Safari 5.0.5 hangs very often when following links that I click on web pages.
The URL progress bar shows 30% - 50% completion, with a blank page, and then just hangs. Sometimes after a long time (2-3 minutes) it completes the load.
However, if I *stop* the load when it hangs, then re-load, the page loads quickly and fully.
Anyone else seeing this?

William Donelson wrote:
I also note that often, pages that do "fully" load, the loading-spinner in Safari keeps running, sometimes for hours.
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Safari hangs after Yosemite install;

I installed Yosemite on my MAC Book Pro;
When my Mac is in sleep mode and the cover is closed, Safari hangs and I get a blank screen;
The only fix I found was to restart the Mac and safari is back.
any recommendations on how to fix the safari issue?

thanks for the reply;
I can quit safari fine; no need to force quit; I get a white screen and nothing happens.
I can quit safari normally;
I restart it and get the same white screen
However when I restart my Mac , safari works fine.
This process happens every morning; I close the cover to my Mac at night, and try to start it the following day.

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Hey All,
My safari hangs on startup every time. I've reset safari, cleared the java cache, and have run the disk utility about a dozen times already and no progress made. Is there any other suggestions to fix the problem without using the bandaid approach? thks

Why I am installing an additional program?
Because based on your brief description, it may fix the problem.
I want it to work without bandaids?
Bandaid? Would you prefer to know the locations of all the system cache files, figure out which ones to delete etc etc. or is that a 'bandaid' as well?
What is going on with you guys from apple?
I'm just another user like yourself. Everyone on this forum is a fellow user.
If you don't want to take my friendly (and free!) advice, feel free not to. If it doesn't work I'm sure someone else will be willing to come along and help you.

Safari hanging up? Here's one possible solution.

This report contains one possible solution to Safari hanging up on certain web pages.
Over the past couple of days, my PowerMac G4 started hanging up when I attempted to load certain pages from CareerBuilder.com.
The bottom of those CareerBuilder.com pages always reported that only xx of yy items (say, 32 of 37 items) were completed, then the spinning ball would appear, indicating that Safari had hung up, requiring me to Force Quit it. Those same CareerBuilder.com pages did not cause Safari on my iMac G5 nor my MacBook Pro to hang up, so I concluded that something had gone awry with Safari on the PowerMac G4 only.
Since other postings related to this topic appear to require a Crash Log to analyze what is going on, I checked for a Crash Log both via Console and by searching for one in the Crash Report folder, but there was none to be found there.
I tried pasting the "Problem Details" report that resulted from my most recent Force Quit, but whenever I tried to Post the Message, I would get a message telling me that "We're sorry, Apple Discussions is temporarily unavailable. We'll be back soon." Other users have reported getting the same message, perhaps because the clipboard contains way too much text. I suppose I could have chopped that long Problem Details report into pieces and passed its information along that way, but I'm not sure that the Problem Details report gives quite the same analytical information as a Crash Report. Besides, from what I could glean, the myriad of well-meaning solutions that were offered seldom, if ever, appeared to cure the problems users were reporting.
Instead, I took a cue from a guy who reported in another thread on Apple Discussions that he cured Safari from hanging by disabling Java and JavaScript in Safari's preferences. That seemed efficient and reasonable, so I implemented his solution.
It seemed to work at first, but a short time after disabling Java and JavaScript, the Mac froze up. I could not access any open applications, nor could I force quit anything. My only choice was to press the power on button for over five seconds to force the computer to shut down. Exhausted from trouble-shooting, we both took a long nap after that. (Recommended trouble-shooting step.)
Upon refresh and restart, I launched Safari. It was now able to access the page in CareerBuilder.com which was causing the hang. However, because JavaScript was now disabled, I could no longer see the rollover button function on my own portfolio website, nor could I see who had visited my website at StatCounter.com, a web analytic service I use to monitor web traffic.
I wanted those abilities back.
So, with tabs open to both the offending CareerBuilder.com page and to StatCounter.com, I re-enabled JavaScript. When I refreshed the StatCounter.com page, the previously unavailable data updated fine. When I refreshed the Career-Builder.com page, all 96 of 96 items updated fine: most importantly, the page did not cause Safari to stall, as it had consistently been doing before.
I switched back to the StatCounter.com page, I enabled Java, and I refreshed that page. No issues to complain about there. I moved back to the problematic CareerBuilder.com page, and I refreshed that page. Safari re-loaded all 96 items again—this time pausing momentarily to report "1 error"—without hanging up.
I cannot know for sure, but perhaps the Java programming "error" contained on that CareerBuilder.com page was the trigger for causing Safari to hang up. Perhaps there was nothing wrong with my Safari configuration after all. This explanation is plausible, because the only hangs Safari has experienced over the past couple of days have occurred on two different CareerBuilder.com pages.
Thirty minutes later, refreshing that same problematic CareerBuilder.com page resulted in only 80 of 81 items being completed, as a new bunch of advertising messages cluttered up the page. Perhaps that one item which failed to load is related to that "error," which continues to be reported. However, at least the page is no longer stalling Safari.
In any event, these were the steps that "cured" the problem of Safari hanging:
1) In Safari preferences, disable Java and Java Script.
2) Shut down the computer.
3) Take a long nap while the computer is powered OFF.
4) Restart the computer and relaunch Safari.
5) Optional: Enable Java Script, then Java, if certain sites require them to be enabled for full functionality.
6) Optional: Visit pages that had caused Safari to hang, and see if Safari functions fully on those pages.
I have no technical understanding of what may have caused Safari to hang in the first place, or if switching Java and Java Script off and then back on, is the true solution to the problem. Maybe letting the computer take a long, overdue nap did the trick! I had been placing it in Sleep mode for several days, so it's missed a good shut down and re-boot routine.
But I am pragmatic about success, so I am merely reporting what worked for me and what I did. Your mileage may vary.
I will monitor the situation and report any future Safari hangs should they occur, since that might be an indication that the problem was not related to Java or Java Script at all.
bowlerboy_jmb

Hi,
You could also try resetting your airport express.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107418
Worked for me.

10.4.8 - Six different Macs all with problems since the update...

We run a business which has six different Macs... all relatively new (3 yrs). Typically we run the auto updates, because that's what we're supposed to do, and we experience little if any problems.
This last update (10.4.8) has caused nothing but problems - little system hickups here and there. Programs hang. Strange screen anomolies. Laptop trackpad issues (clicks and selections when none were made). I have to say that if Apple is going the way of the Windows machine I'm not impressed - at all. Consider thoroughly test your updates before releasing them on your loyal client base. Seems like a simple concept.
Is there anything that can be done to limit the impact of the recent update. Backtracking to the last version is not an option, although setting up the system to allow for this will become a part of our workflow in the immediate future.
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I investigated data recovery options, but just waaay too expensive. So yes, there's nothing like a good backup plan. Lesson learned.
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Safari hangs and crashes

I've owned a MPB for 13 months and for 13 months it's been nothing but headaches.
I know that to other Mac users this sounds negative because Apple products are cool, but my experience with my MPB has been nothing but negative.
I've written to the Cupertino office, I've written to the Apple store where I purchased this unit, and am currently waiting for an answer (been about ten days since i mailed out copies of problem logs and description of problems).
One trip to genius bar = zero resolution.
Two apple care calls = zero resolution.
Countless inquiries on the forums = zero resolution.
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I'm not using Tiger so I don't know the terminology used in OnyX's Tiger version. Anyway, the steps are in the Automation panel. I believe "maintenance scripts" is used in both versions. Not sure about the caches. Have a look at this post for explanations.
If the above doesn't help, I suggest you start a new thread, as your issues may be different than the originator of this thread. Include a copy of the entire crash report (note: If the crash report says "hang", then OnyX is usually the remedy.) Otherwise, select "report" on the quit panel, then copy/paste the entire crash report to your post in the new thread.

Safari hangs for ~7 seconds when loading some pages

I noticed when I click on certain links, Safari hangs for a moment: a blue line moves, when stops, hangs where for about 7 seconds, and eventually it loads a website. It happens on theweathernetwork.com website when I brows photos and open each in a separate tab.
Also, when I am reading a flash etexbook (Pearson eText), and when I click on audio or any other link (youtube, etc.)
I see Safari freezes, mouse cursor disappers (it IS there when I click but you can't see it), after about 7 seconds, cursor re-appears and Safari unfreezes.
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Try a different DNS server such as OpenDNS ...
Quit Safari.
Open System Preferences / Preferences then select the Network tab. Click the Advanced tab then click the DNS tab.
Click +
Enter these addresses exactly as you see them here.
208.67.222.222
Click +
208.67.220.220
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Relaunch Safari.
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Back up all data before making any changes.
Have you restarted your router and your broadband device (if they're separate) since you first noticed the problem? If not, do that now and see whether there's any change.
If your browser is Safari, then from the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove All Website Data
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If you're running OS X 10.9 or later, select the Advanced tab in the Preferences window and uncheck the box marked
Stop plug-ins to save power
Any change?
Quit and relaunch the browser. Any change?
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your documents or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this behavior; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.
Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.
*Note: If you’ve activated “Find My Mac” or FileVault, then you can’t enable the Guest account. The “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac” is not the same. Create a new account in which to test, and delete it, including its home folder, after testing.
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If only Safari is affected, launch the Activity Monitor application and enter "web" (without the quotes) in the search box. If a process named "Safari Web Content" is shown in red or is using more than about 5% of a CPU, select it and force it to quit by clicking the X or Quit Process button in the toolbar of the window. There may be more than one such process. Any improvement?
Follow the instructions in this support article. Any change?
Open the iCloud preference pane and uncheck the box marked Photos, if it's checked. Any change?
Are there any other devices on the same network that can browse the Web, and are they affected?
If you can test Safari on another network, is it the same there?
If you connect to your router with Wi-Fi and you can also connect with Ethernet, do that and turn off Wi-Fi. Any difference?

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