Q: Safari Makes Mac Unresponsive
I have a Mac Pro (Early 2008) running the latest updated versions of everything Mac (El Capitan, Safari, etc), and this issue actually followed me from Yosemite, I was hoping upgrading to El Capitan would solve, but but did not.
Behavior: My Mac will become partially unresponsive. Specifically.
- I can move the pointer around anywhere on the screen, but clicking on any window, menu, anything does nothing.
- Click keyboard key combos likewise does nothing
- At times this has occurred, if there is a video running from a website, etc. it continues to run, with sound. Can't stop it or anyhting because of what I mentioned above
- The only think I can do is hit the power button and restart
Trigger: Safari.
- This will only happen with safari open, not always though. There needs to be a website, or combination to make it happen. So far, I've noticed behavior when I have websites such as Amazon, Ebay, I think Google image search (not sure).
- If I restart the computer allow Safari to open with the same website windows, the freeze will happen, every time, and in short order
- If I open Safari but close all websites, or all the shopping type ones, the freeze does not happen again
- The freeze never happens when Safari is not open
HAs anyone seen this, or have a solution in mind? I love all my wonderful Apple gadgets, and I love having all my information (bookmarks, websites, etc.) synchronized automatically, but if I can't solve this I'll have to move to Chrome. I'm in law school, and if I didn't automatically hit 'Save' every 5 or so minutes while writing papers and briefs, this would have cost me dearly on more than one occasion.
Tank you in advance.
Bob A.
Posted on Mar 14, 2016 11:53 AM
Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items. Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Clear History…. The down side is it clears all cookies.Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library./Caches/com.apple.Safari/Caches.db and move it to the trash.
Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.
Safari Corruption See post by Linc Davis
Posted on Mar 15, 2016 6:22 AM