Q: Lion freeze when browsing webpage

I visited the site, and didn't encounter the problem you describe; since I use Lion, that's not likely the problem.

I can point you to a few directions, however, First, make sure you're completely updated on your software, since these issues often occur when these kinds of conflicts appear. Second, you might want to visit System Prefernces/Languages and make sure Chinese is listed near the top of the list. Third, you might want to investigate if you added any languages (like pinyin) that might lead to conflicts.

Any problem when using FireFox?

I have no solution, but I have experienced the exact same thing 2 or 3 times in the last few weeks. It seems to be when a video link is involved.

Just wanted to echo that I had a hard freeze when a video started playing - second day on Lion with a new iMac. A visit to the same page worked after a restart. Site was a small mac developer that has apps on the app store and a movie (I think HTML5) to explain their product.  Thanks!

I encountered exactely the thame issue on my brand new i7 iMac 27" : all apps/finder freezed, only a useless moving mouse pointer. I still could remotely log on the iMac using ssh, but I couldn't avoid to perform a hard reset (power off). The problem does not systematically occurs while visiting the website.

when looking at the console, many debug info messages can be seen :

23/07/11 12:47:50,000 kernel: ** Device in slot: SLOT--1 **

23/07/11 12:47:50,000 kernel: ** GPU Debug Info Start **

23/07/11 12:47:50,000 kernel: 0x00006720

23/07/11 12:47:50,000 kernel: 0x0000008f

23/07/11 12:47:50,000 kernel: 0x00000001

23/07/11 12:47:50,000 kernel: 0x00000018

....

I guess we only have to wait for Apple techs to polish the new Lion or safari 5

This problem is obviously a duplicate of this one :

https://discussions.apple.com/message/15676049#15676049

It's a more general problem, not only related to Safari.

At least we're not alone !

Same issues here. iMac mid-2011 21.5-inch with Lion.

Wait for updates..

Can you guys post the System Diagnostic Report here when the freeze occur's ? I can help shed light on what is causing it to freeze.

same issue on a brand new iMac 27" that came with snow leopard. Next time it happens I will post some logs

Keep getting the spinning wheel of dealth in Safar on a Macbook Pro 2.5 duo core, 2GB memory.  No problem in Firefox.

Try following.

Locate Safari in the application folder. Select Safari while selecting the CTRL button, select show info and uncheck "Open in 32-bit mode".

After the checkmark has been removed you have to restart your Mac.

same here. on 2 different systems. both upgraded to Lion. one brand new 27" iMac and a 2010 iBook.

on iMac while in chrome and once in iTunes. mouse still alive but everything else is gone fishing. frozen solid.

on iBook. several time in browsers (FFox or Chrome) and a couple times in vmWare 3.1.

hope the dudes @ Lion notice b/c this is getting annoying.

also since it is so frozen that one can only power off/on ... no chance to send a report to the big apple so do they

actually know this is happening ??

Trying to uncheck the tickbox 'run in 32bits mode' doesn't help in my case since the box was not checked before.

Just a thought, are you using the Lastpass extension?

Many extensions have not been adjusted to support Safari 5.1 test… or some of the "old" extensions have not properly been uninstalled before a new version supporting Safari 5.1. has been installed.

This can also be the case for users using the Lastpass extension.

If that is the case run

https://lastpass.com/lpsafari.dmg

and than download the latest Lastpass extension again

https://lastpass.com/lastpass.safariextz

even though you have the newest Lastpass extension already installed.