Hi Mike,
Are you visiting sites with lots of flash banner content? There was
an article on the MacFixIt pages back in the middle of May that
described people getting random crashes when browsing due to Adobe
Flash player content interacting badly with the code being used on
some flash banners. This could lead to the kind of problems that you
report -- general crashes at different sites, and not an obvious
connection with any Mac system update. It might also depend on the
version of Adobe Flash player you have and how it interacts with the
code used for the flash banners. Adobe started introducing some
security fixes in recent Flash Player releases over the last few
months, and some of these have interacted badly with existing web
coding for flash banners.
Also, having to repair permissions after installing a new version of
Flash Player is apparently a perennial problem, but you've already
done that in case this was needed.
Not sure whether this explanation applies to your problem, but if
this is the case, it wouldn't matter whether you're using the nightly
webkit builds or the regular Safari, since the problem would be tied
to Adobe Flash content and how the code for particular flash banners
interacts with your version of Flash Player. Also, in general you
would see crashes when you visit sites that are likely to display
flash banners -- social networking sites rather than banking sites,
for example. You could try to reset your browser when you recover
(check selected options) or at least clear the cache using the menu
options under Safari on the menu bar.
If this sounds like it matches your experience, you can try checking
the version of Flash player you have, and checking for problem
reports from other users. I think Adobe has a page where Intel Mac
users can check their Flash version and troubleshoot problems.
HTH. It's all I can think of,
Cheers,
Esther
On Aug 13, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
That makes it hard to help. Need a reproducible recipe otherwise
it's a bit of finding a needle in a haystack.
CB
Mike's Western Account wrote:
random
On Jul 29, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Is it random sites or a particular set?
CB
Mike's Western Account wrote:
ok all
this ... is... not... making... me... happy... this is like the
22nd or so time this morning i've tryed loading different sites
and it... is... getting old! I have webkit installed and have
tryed with that and safari, safari will load a few pages, then
when i load another one randomly i go to vo up or vo down and vo
stops for a few seconds then it brings up the dialog that it has
crashed. I've tryed hitting relaunch or whatever it is restart,
and then sometimes it asks me if i wanna reset the settings for
safari and i've tryed doing it and not doing it. This... Is...
Getting... Bloody... Old... and i have no clue why it might be
doing this. I havn't installed anything new lately or anything.
Any ideas?
thanks
mike
