10.5.2 made Safari freeze my whole computer

im glad in not the only one!
i thought i was going insane!

this happens to me too. sometimes i have to forcequit the computer. really annoying.
i seem to have the freeze problem most often whenever i am viewing RSS feeds....

are you using any plugins?
i am using inquisitor, live dictionary, twicetab, iplace and plugsuit

Both Safari and Firefox freeze up my iMac G5. I can surf around for a few minutes, then suddenly I get the beach ball of death. Attempting to force-quit via Cmd-Alt-Esc doesn't work.

If I wait long enough, sometimes media content (such as a flash video) will start playing audio, but still no ability to use menus, swich apps, force quit, etc.

I reloaded Leopard off a clean install (vs. the original Archive & Install), but used my Time Machine backup to restore the apps. Next step I guess is to nuke both Safari and Firefox and reinstall from scratch.

I have the same problems on my iMac G5. Both browsers, actually any browser, and usually with Flash heavy content. There are a number of threads about this, including my own. None of them have any real answers. I suspect it has something to do with the ATI drivers. I base this on research of other people and stuff I found googling.

Btw, I also seemed to have similar problems after the latest Tiger update. This was one of the reasons I upgraded to Leopard a couple of weeks ago (clean-up the system, fresh install, etc.).

ps.
Also check your /var/log/windowserver.log for message like below, I get them whenever a freeze start to happen (you can tail -f the log file in terminal, then browse to a flash site to test):


Feb 26 21:49:16 69 kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXSetWindowTransform: Invalid window 2523

and:

Feb 26 21:49:01 69 kCGErrorFailure: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Dock" for over 1 second. Server has re-enabled them.

I'm having trouble with Firefox locking up and not being able to force quit. Had the same thing happen in Itunes yesterday for the FIRST TIME EVER. This is my second mac. On my mini, when it locked (and it does on browsers sometimes) I could force quit. Now I have to shut down machine to recover the program. Using Safari to type this because I don't want to go through a reboot right now. Heads up Apple team.

Enjoy.

I had Firefox 2 freeze up on me and I could not force quit anything. I first suspected Time machine; I told it to ignore 10 folders; no help. Then put it on manual. Then I made sure spotlight was not indexing. Seemed to happen on a Youtube (flash?) page. When Firefox crashes , I have to Restart the mac with the power button. Very annoying. I can't figure the cause on this one. In terms of Firefox extensions, I had recently installed PicLens, could that be a cause? dunno....

Yes! Look at my thread, removing Piclens solved my problems.