Safari Mac 5.0.5 crashing, hanging, beach balling at least once a day

I have recently found that Safari (using 5.0.5 (5533.21.1)--Mac) crashes and hangs quite a bit. I'm only running 2GB of memory, which can account for the spinning ball to some degree. But I've seen Safari crash and disappear, requiring re-running it, on a number of occasions... enough to make me want to report it here. I am using Leopard 10.5.8 too.
Here's a crash log... not 100% sure this one is related to the last Safari crash, but think it might be:
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Process:         WDBMService [128]
Path:            /Library/StartupItems/WDBMService/WDBMService
Identifier:      WDBMService
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time:       2011-05-06 13:03:50.372 -0600
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 00D4F9FD-D51E-416A-ABCC-458BE54174B8
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Application Specific Information:
*** single-threaded process forked ***
Thread 0 Crashed:
0   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x9516f381 __CFRunLoopFindMode + 353
1   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x9517144c CFRunLoopAddSource + 124
2   com.apple.Foundation                    0x917e1a40 -[NSConcreteTask launchWithDictionary:] + 1744
3   com.apple.Foundation                    0x917e1369 -[NSConcreteTask launch] + 41
4   WDBMService                             0x00002d69 main + 246
5   WDBMService                             0x00002b46 _start + 228 (crt.c:272)
6   WDBMService                             0x00002a61 start + 41
Thread 1:
0   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x912ad9c6 kevent + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x912ae155 _pthread_start + 321
2   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x912ae012 thread_start + 34
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x0000000f ebx: 0x9516f22e ecx: 0x00001200 edx: 0x9127d266
edi: 0x001081b0 esi: 0x0010d0d0 ebp: 0xbffffbf8 esp: 0xbffffb90
   ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00000206 eip: 0x9516f381   cs: 0x00000017
   ds: 0x0000001f   es: 0x0000001f   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0xb0010c58
Binary Images:
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0x903e7000 - 0x90441ff7 com.apple.CoreText 2.0.5 (???) <5483518a613464d043455ac661a9dcbe> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ CoreText.framework/Versions/A/CoreText
0x90442000 - 0x90450ffd libz.1.dylib ??? (???) <545ca09467025f77131cfac09d8b9375> /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib
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0x913f1000 - 0x917affea libLAPACK.dylib ??? (???) /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.fr amework/Versions/A/libLAPACK.dylib
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0x968f0000 - 0x969a2ffb libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib ??? (???) <d02f7e5b8a68813bb7a77f5edb34ff9d> /usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib
0x969a3000 - 0x96a20fef libvMisc.dylib ??? (???) /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.fr amework/Versions/A/libvMisc.dylib
0x96bfd000 - 0x96c0afe7 com.apple.opengl 1.5.10 (1.5.10) <5a2813f80c9441170cc1ab8a3dac5038> /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL
0x96c0b000 - 0x96c12ffe libbsm.dylib ??? (???) <5582985a86ea36504cca31788bccf963> /usr/lib/libbsm.dylib
0x96c13000 - 0x96c6cff7 libGLU.dylib ??? (???) <a3b9be30100a25a6cd3ad109892f52b7> /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGLU.dylib
0x96c6d000 - 0x96c88ff3 libPng.dylib ??? (???) <3a01fab3a2d1ae7f7df0821c5af41d87> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/Resources/libPng.dylib
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If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane. See whether there's any change.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
If you have a MacBook Pro with dual graphics, disable automatic graphics switching in the Energy Saverpreference pane for better performance at the cost of shorter battery life.
Step 3
When you notice the problem, launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the View menu or the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for User, System, and Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the Memory tab. What value is shown in the bottom part of the window for Swap used?
Next, select the Disk tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in andWrites out.)
Step 4
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combinationcommand-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long.

Version 3.6.6 crashes or hangs at least once a day no matter what web site I am on.

== Issue
==
Firefox is crashing or closing unexpectedly
== Description
==
At least once, if not more, Firefox version 3.6.6 crashes no matter what web site I am on.
== Crash ID(s)
==
<code>
Report ID Date Submitted bp-46f46477-ef0b-48d6-81b4-479f92100701 7/1/2010 1:29 PM bp-f48d335f-9865-490c-a4a5-6127d2100629 6/29/2010 12:13 PM bp-39e76d38-443e-4c2f-8099-2f6152100628 6/28/2010 6:24 PM bp-52be880d-962e-4d4c-8d0d-a67b82100627 6/27/2010 10:44 AM 5e745993-930d-48a7-99a2-03d536041670 6/26/2010 12:19 PM 2a107eb7-49bb-4a19-9d5e-80b263cbbc9e 6/26/2010 12:19 PM 75c78046-d47a-40a3-93f8-aa522b21af39 6/26/2010 12:05 PM 4ed22b8b-2ed1-4b54-9400-b76138290d6d 6/26/2010 12:05 PM bp-7756d1ca-4c26-4ac0-a543-092ff2100626 6/26/2010 12:03 PM bp-2005163d-261e-4d3a-baed-2c21e2100626 6/26/2010 12:03 PM bp-f12e6798-9734-4644-9409-837122100626 6/26/2010 12:02 PM bp-563ca22d-904a-4abf-9aa4-0412f2100626 6/26/2010 12:02 PM
</code>
== Troubleshooting information
==
Version 3.6.6 crashes or hangs at least once a day no matter what web site I am on.
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== Firefox version
==
3.6.6
== Operating system
==
Windows 7
== User Agent
==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6
== Plugins installed
==
*-Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.3.3"
*Default Plug-in
*NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
*The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
*Shockwave Flash 10.1 r53
*iTunes Detector Plug-in
*Windows Activation Technologies Plugin for Mozilla
*4.0.50524.0
*Office Authorization plug-in for NPAPI browsers
*The plug-in allows you to open and edit files using Microsoft Office applications
*NPWLPG
*Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_20 for Mozilla browsers

Firefox 3.6.4 and 3.6.6 use a process called, "plugin-container.exe" which was using up most of my CPU when I opened up multiple tabs that contained Adobe Flash files, and caused Firefox to lock up.
My solution was to use Firefox 3.5.10 which you can get from the Mozilla website at [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html]
I am using Adobe Flash 10.1.53.64 without any problem in this version of Firefox. Check the release notes, I believe it contains all the latest security fixes in "Firefox 3.6.4".
Hopefully, they will fix Firefox 3.6 in the next version (e.g. Firefox 3.6.7), until then you should probably use "Firefox 3.5.10".

My safari is always shutting off and then a box asking me to fill out a report pops up it happens at least once a day, is there anything i could do to stop this?

my safari is always shutting off and then a box asking me to fill out a report pops up it happens at least once a day, is there anything i could do to stop this?

I think you mean it's crashing or quitting unexpectedly.
Most likely due to third party Safari add ons. Follow the instructions for troubleshooting here > Safari: Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues
If you can't resolve the issue, post a crash report so we can try and help you get Safari going again.
If Safari has just crashed, press the Report button on the CrashReporter dialog box to view the crash information.
Copy/paste the entire contents of the Crash Reporter window into your reply. If the crash report dialog does not appear or the crash is hard to reproduce, crash logs can be retrieved from the ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter> folder.

Since installing Maverick my Mac Pro freezes at least once a day, any advice?.

Since installing OS Maverick my Mac Pro is freezing at least once a day. I can not access 'Force Quit' via shortcut and have to force a shutdown. This has occured when using Firefox, so i tried Safari and Chrome, freezes using all three. It has happened while use software as well eg, Photoshop and Word.
I have installed and run AVG Anti Virus and done a full system check to ensure that there was no virus etc.... all was clear.
I am assuming that it is a bug within Maverick as i experienced none of these problems prior to its installation.
Is anyone else experiencing these issues and does anyone have any advice on prevention?

Firstly, uninstall any anti-malware software. It isn't needed and could cause your problem. Also, avoid using Chrome which can also cause problems. Never use more than one browser at a time. Using three is asking for disaster.
I've been using Mavericks on all my computers and have had no problems, so what you describe is unlikely to be a bug. Start by uninstalling the AV software using their uninstaller. Disconnect all third-party peripherals. Then try the following:
Fixing a Mavericks Installation Problem
How to manage a failed OS X Mavericks installation | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews.
Try these in order:
1. a. Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
    b. Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
2. Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. If this doesn't help, then:
     Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the
     COMMAND and R keys until the Utilities menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and
     after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears.
     Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
3. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
4. Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks: Reboot from the Recovery HD. Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks from the Utilities menu, and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

Yosemite hangs at least once a day

Yosemite is now hanging at least once per day. This AM on Safari, yesterday on Hearts+, day before on McSolitaire.
Any suggestions

Without a doubt, one of the worst OS's Apple has turned out for me in my 23 years of Apple. It is buggy as can be even with turning it out as they did in pre-release. Safari hangs all the time for no reason. Tried every fix out there and still comes back. Unfortunate....for those who expected a little more from a company who touts itself so highly.

MacBook Pro 15" crashes at least once a day.

This is the only way I found of making this issue known. I'm posting this in hope someone at Apple reads it and answers me.
The 15" MacBook Pro Core2Duo I'm using has fed me up. It crashes at least once a day, guaranteed. I have an Apple Cinema Display attached to it, usually Safari, Word, iTunes and Acrobat Reader Pro all open at once. Sometimes I'll have Mail, Photoshop, Keynote and Pages open too. I don't know if this is related to Intel processors or crappy video cards, but my G5 never crashed like this. This laptop also tends to overheat, which as ironic as it sounds, was one of Apple's selling points against Intel processors back in the 90's when we still used Motorola processors (good old days).
Bellow are my computer's specs, check them out and let me know if this model in particular has had known issues.
Thanks,
G
Model Name:          MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:          MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2.53 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          6 MB
Memory:          4 GB
Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version:          MBP51.007E.B05
SMC Version (system):          1.33f8
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State:          Enabled
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M:
Chipset Model:          NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCI
VRAM (Total):          256 MB
Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:          0x0863
Revision ID:          0x00b1
ROM Revision:          3437
gMux Version:          1.7.3
Displays:
Display Connector:
Status:          No Display Connected
Display Connector:
Status:          No Display Connected
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT:
Chipset Model:          NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCIe
PCIe Lane Width:          x16
VRAM (Total):          512 MB
Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:          0x0647
Revision ID:          0x00a1
ROM Revision:          3437
gMux Version:          1.7.3
Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution:          1440 x 900
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Built-In:          Yes
Cinema:
Resolution:          1680 x 1050
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number:          2A7290RJXMM
Main Display:          Yes
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Rotation:          Supported

This is the only way I found of making this issue known. I'm posting this in hope someone at Apple reads it and answers me.
The 15" MacBook Pro Core2Duo I'm using has fed me up. It crashes at least once a day, guaranteed. I have an Apple Cinema Display attached to it, usually Safari, Word, iTunes and Acrobat Reader Pro all open at once. Sometimes I'll have Mail, Photoshop, Keynote and Pages open too. I don't know if this is related to Intel processors or crappy video cards, but my G5 never crashed like this. This laptop also tends to overheat, which as ironic as it sounds, was one of Apple's selling points against Intel processors back in the 90's when we still used Motorola processors (good old days).
Bellow are my computer's specs, check them out and let me know if this model in particular has had known issues.
Thanks,
G
Model Name:          MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:          MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2.53 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          6 MB
Memory:          4 GB
Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version:          MBP51.007E.B05
SMC Version (system):          1.33f8
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State:          Enabled
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M:
Chipset Model:          NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCI
VRAM (Total):          256 MB
Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:          0x0863
Revision ID:          0x00b1
ROM Revision:          3437
gMux Version:          1.7.3
Displays:
Display Connector:
Status:          No Display Connected
Display Connector:
Status:          No Display Connected
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT:
Chipset Model:          NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCIe
PCIe Lane Width:          x16
VRAM (Total):          512 MB
Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:          0x0647
Revision ID:          0x00a1
ROM Revision:          3437
gMux Version:          1.7.3
Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution:          1440 x 900
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Built-In:          Yes
Cinema:
Resolution:          1680 x 1050
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number:          2A7290RJXMM
Main Display:          Yes
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Rotation:          Supported

WAP4410N (Repeater-Mode) is crashing at least once a day

Hello everyone
we installed a WAP4410n for a customer who needed a wireless repeater to forward the signal to another part of the building. Everything is configured properly and works, until the device stops responding. This happens at least once a day, sometimes twice or even more often. When you power-cycle the device, after a few minutes everything is fine again. The lights on the device stay lid up after the crash. The wireless network is not discoverable after the crash though.
The wireless-router that is forwarded is in direct site an at maximum 15 meters away. The signal strengts is good and the only traffic that is made is internet access for two PC over a 2mbit internet-connection.
I tried updating the device from 2.0.0.5 to 2.0.0.12 K9 but this has not solved the problem. I'm not sure if this is a hardware-failure or a known software bug. Please let me know, what i can do to solve this.
Thanks in advance

Greetings,
Usually when you use repeater mode from one of our access points the speed and range is cut by half, If I am correct 15 meters is close to 45 feet give or take, our max range for wireless is 120 feet configured as an access point, when cut in half by the property of repeater mode your new repeated broadcast would have 60 feet give or take of wireless connectivity, if your clients are moving in and out of the total broadcast range and consistently requesting DHCP from the WAP device you could generate a broadcast storm that could lead to the device locking up. I would suggest tweaking with the advanced wireless settings at carefully and looking at the help tab to see what each setting does, perhaps trying different wireless channels that work best in your network and trying to stay within the wireless boundries of your total broadcast range. This is a mere suggestion and a personal point of view, however for more detailed and precise technical support regarding your issue please contact our support center 1-866-606-1866.
Thanks.

Safari hangs, beach ball and 100% CPU confusion

I'm struggling!
Safri 5.1 on Lion 10.7.3 and on both my Mackbook Air and iMac after the recent updates something is stopping Safar from loading. It just hangs, beachball kicks in and the CPU shoots upto around 100% with a "web process".
I've turned off and deleted all extensions, Flash, Flip4Mac, Perian, Ad Block, 1Password etc and restarted and the problem remains on both computers.
I'm stuck. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software -- potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions -- they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
These steps are to be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing.
Below are several lines of text in monospaced type, which are UNIX shell commands. They’re harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of running these commands, search this site for other discussions in which they’ve been used without any report of ill effects.
Some of the commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then either copy or drag it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.
Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. The other steps should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
To begin, launch the Terminal application; e.g., by entering the first few letters of its name in a Spotlight search. A text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” (without the quotes) and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Copy or drag -- do not type -- the line below into the Terminal window, then press return:
kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}'
Post the lines of output (if any) that appear below what you just entered (the text, please, not a screenshot.)
Step 2
Repeat with this line:
sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix)|edu\.mit|org\.(x|postfix|ntp|cups)/{print $3}'
This time, you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. You don't need to post the warning.
Step 3
launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|edu\.mit|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'
Step 4
ls -1A /e*/mach* {,/}L*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta}* L*/Fonts 2> /dev/null
Important: If you synchronize with a MobileMe account, your me.com email address may appear in the output of the above command. If so, anonymize it before posting.
Step 5
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of every login item'
Remember, steps 1-5 are all drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste, whichever you prefer -- no typing, except your password. Also remember to post the output.
You can then quit Terminal.

IMac (early 2008) crashing/freezing/beach ball appearing too often

Hi - I'm new to the support community but am in need of advice/help for my iMac that is crashing with blue and/or white screens or freezing with unresponsive mouse/keyboard and a spinning beach ball.
It's been doing this for about 6 months, and 4 months ago I sent it to an Authorised Apple repair centre. They upgraded the HDD to 1Tb as disk space was just about used up and beefed the emory up from 4Gb to 6Gb. However, within the week, it was doing it again - and the repair centre dont want to help anymore (seperate issue) - hence the plea for help as, no suprise, its frustrasting me beyond belief - I'm now almost at the point of giving up the mac way of life
The iMac is a 24" Early 2008 machine (2.8 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo) running Mavericks at 10.9.1 (albeit the issues were there last summer before the upgrade). The machine wont run a hardware test with holding down the D or Alt D on boot up - it used to do this fine before the Mavericks upgrade
Appreciate anyone's steer/advice - my technical knowledge is quite low (hence going for the mac in the first place)
Ta in advance to any replies

This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything in the test procedure. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. All it does is to gather information about the state of your computer. That information goes nowhere unless you choose to share it on this page. However, you should be cautious about running a program at the instance of a stranger on a public message board. If you have doubts, search this site for other discussions in which this procedure has been followed without any report of ill effects. If you can't satisfy yourself that the instructions are safe, don't follow them.
Here's a summary of what you need to do: Copy a line of text from this web page into the window of another application. Wait about a minute. Then paste some other text, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page. The sequence is: copy, paste, wait, paste again. Details follow.
You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken in “normal” mode. If the system is now in safe mode and works well enough in normal mode to run the test, restart as usual. If you can only test in safe mode, do that.
If you have more than one user, and the one affected by the problem is not an administrator, then please run the test twice: once while logged in as the affected user, and once as an administrator. The results may be different. The user that is created automatically on a new computer when you start it for the first time is an administrator. If you can't log in as an administrator, test as the affected user. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
The script is a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, though you may not see all of it in your browser, and you can then copy it. If you try to select the line by dragging across the part you can see, you won't get all of it.
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
clear; shopt -s extglob; Fb='%s\n\t(%s)\n'; Fm='\n%s:\n\n%s\n'; Fs='\n%s: %s\n'; Fu='user %s%%, system %s%%'; PB="/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c Print"; A () { [[ a -eq 0 ]]; }; R () { o=; [[ r -eq 0 ]]; }; Pm () { [[ "$o" ]] && o=`sed 's/^ */ /' <<< "$o"` && printf "$Fm" "$1" "$o"; }; Pc () { o=`egrep -v '^[[:blank:]]*($|#)' "$2"`; Pm "$1"; }; Pp () { o=`$PB "$2" | awk -F'= ' \/$3'/{print $2}'`; Pm "$1"; }; Ps () { o="${o##+( )}"; [[ ! "$o" =~ ^0?$ ]] && printf "$Fs" "$1" "$o"; }; id | grep -qw '80(admin)'; a=$?; A && sudo true; r=$?; t=`date +%s`; clear; { A || echo $'No admin access\n'; A && ! R && echo $'No root access\n'; system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | sed '8!d;s/^ *//'; o=`system_profiler SPDiagnosticsDataType | sed '5,6!d'`; [[ "$o" =~ Pass ]] || Pm "POST"; o=`pmset -g therm | sed 's/^.*CP/CP/'`; egrep -q 'No th|pms' <<< "$o" && o=; Pm "Thermal conditions"; o=`pmset -g sysload | grep -v :`; grep -q '= [^GO]' <<< "$o" || o=; Pm "System load advisory"; o=`nvram boot-args | awk '{$1=""; print}'`; Ps "boot-args"; d=(/ ""); D=(System User); for i in 0 1; do o=`cd ${d[$i]}L*/L*/Dia* && ls !(*.diag) | tail | awk -F_ '{$NF=a[split($NF,a,".")]; print}'`; Pm "${D[$i]} diagnostics"; done; o=`syslog -F bsd -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |hfs: Ru|I/O e|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|pagin|SATA W|ssert|timed? ?o' | tail -n25 | awk '/:/{$4=""; $5=""; print}'`; Pm "Kernel messages"; o=`df -m / | awk 'NR==2 {print $4}'`; o=$((o<5120?o:0)); Ps "Free space (MiB)"; o=$(($(vm_stat | awk '/eo/{sub("\\.",""); print $2}')/256)); o=$((o>=1024?o:0)); Ps "Pageouts (MiB)"; s=( `sar -u 1 10 | sed '$!d'` ); [[ s[4] -lt 85 ]] && o=`printf "$Fu" ${s[1]} ${s[3]}` || o=; Ps "Total CPU usage" && { s=(`ps acrx -o comm,ruid,%cpu | sed '2!d'`); o=${s[2]}%; Ps "CPU usage by process \"$s\" with UID ${s[1]}"; }; s=(`top -R -l1 -n1 -o prt -stats command,uid,prt | sed '$!d'`); s[2]=${s[2]%[+-]}; o=$((s[2]>=25000?s[2]:0)); Ps "Mach ports used by process \"$s\" with UID ${s[1]}"; o=`kextstat -kl | grep -v com\\.apple | cut -c53- | cut -d\< -f1`; Pm "Loaded extrinsic kernel extensions"; R && o=`sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix\.cron)|org\.(amav|apac|calendarse|cups|dove|isc|ntp|post[fg]|x)/{print $3}'`; Pm "Extrinsic system jobs"; o=`launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|org\.(x|openbsd)|\.[0-9]+$/{print $3}'`; Pm "Extrinsic agents"; for d in {/,}L*/{La,Priv,Sta}*; do o=`ls -A "$d" | egrep -v '^(\.DS_Store$|com\.apple\.)'`; Pm "$d"; done; o=`find -L /S*/L*/E* {/,}L*/{A*d,Compon,Ex,In,Keyb,Mail,P*P,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo}* -type d -name Contents -prune | while read d; do ID=$($PB\ :CFBundleIdentifier "$d/Info.plist") || ID="No bundle ID"; egrep -qv "^com\.apple\.[^x]|Accusys|ArcMSR|ATTO|HDPro|HighPoint|driver\.stex|hp-fax|\.hpio|JMicron|microsoft\.MDI|print|SoftRAID" <<< $ID && printf "$Fb" "${d%/Contents}" "$ID"; done`; Pm "Extrinsic loadable bundles"; o=`find /u*/{,*/}lib -type f -exec sh -c 'file -b "$1" | grep -qw shared && ! codesign -v "$1"' {} {} \; -print`; Pm "Unsigned shared libraries"; o=`launchctl getenv DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES`; Pm "Inserted libraries"; o=`find {,/u*/lo*}/e*/periodic -type f -mtime -10d`; Pm "Modified periodic scripts"; o=`scutil --proxy | grep Prox`; Pm "Proxies"; o=`scutil --dns | awk '/r\[0\] /{if ($NF !~ /^1(0|72\.(1[6-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-1])|92\.168)\./) print $NF; exit}'`; Ps "DNS"; R && o=`sudo profiles -P | grep :`; Pm "Profiles"; for f in fstab sysctl.conf crontab launchd.conf; do Pc $f /etc/$f; done; Pc "hosts" <(grep -v 'host *$' /etc/hosts); Pc "User launchd" ~/.launchd; R && Pc "Root crontab" <(sudo crontab -l); Pc "User crontab" <(crontab -l); R && o=`sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook`; Pm "Login hook"; Pp "Global login items" /L*/P*/loginw* Path; Pp "User login items" L*/P*/*loginit* Name; Pp "Safari extensions" L*/Saf*/*/E*.plist Bundle | sed 's/\..*$//;s/-[1-9]$//'; o=`find ~ $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 $ | wc -l`; Ps "Restricted user files"; cd; o=`system_profiler SPFontsDataType | egrep "Valid: N|Duplicate: Y" | wc -l`; Ps "Font problems"; o=`find L*/{Con,Pref}* -type f ! -size 0 -name *.plist ! -exec sh -c 'plutil -s "$1" >&-' {} {} \; -print`; Pm "Bad plists"; d=(Desktop L*/Keyc*); n=(20 7); for i in 0 1; do o=`find "${d[$i]}" -type f -maxdepth 1 | wc -l`; o=$((o<=n[$i]?0:o)); Ps "${d[$i]##*/} files"; done; o=$((`date +%s`-t)); Ps "Elapsed time (s)"; } 2>/dev/null | pbcopy; exit 2>&-
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Safari won't open... spinning beach ball

Out of the blue this morning, Safari won't open. I click it, the icon bounces, and then I get the spinning beach ball. If I go to the Force Quit Applications window, it says it's not responding. Any ideas what may be causing this and how to fix it?
-B

What is the exact wording of the message you see, and what are you doing when you see it?
These are the steps I took this morning, again, along with the wording. Before these steps, I logged into my account through the Google browser, and verified that I had a purchase in October of OS X Lion:
1 - booted computer under recovery.
2 - Disk Utility - Repair Disk (Result: The Volume New Macbook appears to be okay)
3 - Disk Utility - Repair Disk Permissions - (Result:0 Repaired - Permissions Repair Complete)
4 - Reinstall Mac OS - "Your computer's eligibility will be verified with Apple - OK
5 - "To Continue, you must agree to the terms and conditions" - Agree
6 - Select New Macbook - Install
7 - signing into Apple Store (Result: This Apple ID has not purchased Lion)
8 - rebooted and tried to launch App Store - back to spinning beach balls, along with all other internet apps; Safari, Mail, App Store, iTunes, etc.
Aps not affected: Google Chrome, Outlook (as long as I don't click on an email connected to an HTTPS server) and anything not on the internet.
I hope this helps and thank you for your advice. I wish I could use my Snow Leopard disks; my dvd drive is broken.

Mail crashes with beach ball on composing email

Seem to be able to recreate this twice in 30 mins...
was an existing users email that had been previously drafted with content ( no attachemnts) in the message body.
Had to force quit mail and then restarted computer.
the previous email draft was then reopened and the beach ball appared immediately, all of this is ultimately ineracting with an IMAP server.
was able to copy the text from the message body and quit mail then ended up using a webmail application..
Mail is sending and receiving no problems.
I would like to look into some logs to get some clues on this one but not sure where to look ? As although I describe it as a crash I don't believe the system agrees - I can't see any thing under:
~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Mail.crash.log

I think I've diagnosed the problem. It was (I think) being caused by GrowlMail - a plugin installed by Growl. It seems to have started happening after the most recent Quicktime update, so that points to a possible incompatibility there....

Sudden performance issues, crashing and beach ball

The last week or so Safari slowed down dramatically, and kept giving me the spinning beach ball. Now this is happening throughout my system, after a restart it seems to work ok for a few minutes, then will barely funciton at all in any application, usually resulting in a spinning beach ball that never stops, or the sytem freezes completely.
I'm running 10.8.4, have the RAM maxed out, plenty of free HD space. I'm done some basic troubleshotting inlcuding verifying the disc, and also ran DiscWarrior from an external DVD.
Still having the same issues.
I work at home and this is my main computer so I'm trying to get it fixed soon.
thanks in advance!
Jeff

Back up all data immediately as your boot drive may be failing.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator. I've tested them only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, they may not work as described.
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syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'Channel t|GPU D|I/O|n Cause: -' | tail | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. Normally the command will produce no output, and the window will be empty. If the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window) has anything in it, post it — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the TextEdit window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.

Constant hanging, beach ball, complete system freeze...please help

I have had my MBP since the beginning of the year, about a month I started experiencing problems and took it into the Apple store where they replaced the Harddrive and Logic Board. It was fine for a while, but since instaling CS5 and upgrading to Snow Leopard my Mac appears to be dying a slow death. It has got to the point where it is completely un-usable, after a restart with no applications running, simply browsing the finder I have constant beach balls as the finder tries to load the contents of a small folder. And when actually trying to do some work, with two or three apps open...the Mac freezes for up to 30 secs before every task, no matter how simple.
All my software and firmware is up to date! This is frustrating and completely disappointing, any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Adam

Backup your data, and take it back in to service*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
Sounds like they left something loose.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

Mac book is crashing at least once a day

Hi All,
This is what im getting and I'm tired of it. its happening once or twice a day, in a 4 months old mac book pro.
What do i do? Its got all the updates up-to-date.
thanks

There are multiple options on that page, I'm looking for something i can do. I'm trying to avoid taking it to the apple store since it will take some time. and i need it for work.
It actually has been getting worse, more restars, at least twice a day.
Any suggestions on something i can, install/remove, to fix it?
thanks

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