Safari locks up the entire OS.
Every now and again Safari will lock up on a web-page and take the entire OS with it. You cant force quit the appliation and the finder becomes unresponsive and the only option I can take is holding down the power button. I've run Applejack and OnyX and it had found some problems when the crashing was over and over... now the system just randomly crashes once a day while running Safari.
It only happens with Safari. I've told the OS to load ten programs at once to see if it was a stability problem.. and after chugging a way for a bit everything opened nicely except for NeoOffice which I needed to use the activity monitor to kill.
Albeit, the crashes are on sites that off-link from new sites.. and certain sites I don't usually visit. It is just random, and tends to happen when i'm moving between pages or useing drop down menus... I will get 'Safari timed out' while trying to load something and then the entire browser no longer functions in any capacity.. but it can still minimize. I try to load up the activity monitor from the dock and it bounces up and down and nothing ever comes of it. I let it for for a few minutes the last time this happened to see if it will clear up (i told safari to force quit) and it was still stuck.
I had, installed some HP drivers for my printer/camera and that was about the time the problems began happening. It cleared up after running AJ/OnyX/and a permissions check.
If it means anything else, I also had Azures cause the lock up of the OS after it sat downloading a torrent file over night. The OS was working (monitor light/keyboard light) but the OS wasn't able to run/close or function in
any means. (The next night, it downloaded again and still worked.. the OS has been up for about three days right now)
It also does not leave any crash logs, which is another oddity.
(P.S. I use Camino now a days, but I use safari for tabs that dont open straight away)
Thanks for your help!
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Actually, i'm useing a macbook pro.. and when i just tap the power button, the shut down/log off options appear.. however; even when i click one.. i get the spinning circle and no dice on the shut down. I may reinstall Safari off the install disc.. as you suggest. This also happened when Azures locked up, and permissions check didn't find anything wrong. After the reboot though, so no telling when the software is, dead.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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