Safari Hangs-A Fix That Worked For Me

If doing so improved the situation, this confirms that one of Safari's database files has become corrupt and is causing the crashing, and this shows up in your crash log as Thread 3 having crashed.

The blacklists from Google’s Safe Browsing Initiative (where Safari checks for 'fraudulent websites') are contained in a database cache file called SafeBrowsing.db - the file was created when you first launched Safari 3.2, and if you have the browser open, the file is modified approximately every 30 minutes.

As an alternative to turning off 'Warn when visiting a fraudulent website', which will lose you that important security feature, you should delete that database file, (but first close Safari):

Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari (this is a folder)/SafeBrowsing.db

It will be recreated next time you open Safari, and will then start again collecting details of dodgy websites.

If you are interested:

How the Anti-Phishing feature of Safari 3.2 works:

http://www.macworld.com/article/137094/2008/11/safarisafebrowsing.html

klaus - thank you for posting this info - at first glance it seems to have resolved my problem (same as described above in original post). the problem didnt start until i started to run v 4 beta, then i downgraded back to 3.2.3, where prob still existed (was obviously still using same corrupt database). here's to hoping the fix sticks, thx again for the info-sharing

Klaus, the problem with your solution is that I don't have a file named "SafeBrowsing.db" anywhere on my computer. I have turned off safe browsing in Safari's security preferences and that apparently has solved my problem with Safari freezing and not loading pages, but at the cost of a potentially nice feature. I hope Apple and Google work out this problem.

One thing I have noticed is that I have a Mac Pro connected by a hard wired ethernet connection and a MacBook Air connected by wireless connection. I only have the hanging problem on my MacBook Air. This leads me to believe that the problem is a wireless problem.
Unchecking the fraudulent website box does fix this problem.

I am having this same issue. But I cannot find the safebrowsing.db to delete. The only file I have under com.apple.safari is called caches and deleting that didn't help. So right now I have the fraudulent warnings turned off. Am I missing something? or could the safebrowsing.db file be located elsewhere?

I cleared my problem by removing SafariStand. I deleted all Internet plugs ins first. After finding SafariStand to be the problem, I used Time Machine to bring it all back. Worked just as advertised!

Thanks Klaus, that seems to fix the Hangs on My-Yahoo. Well, I tried one and it didn't hang, but loaded fine, and I was able to scroll and read the piece. Maybe that should be part of the install of version 4.0

Oh well, it took awhile, but lucky me, found one that it does not fix, back to Camino for Yahoo.

baforer wrote:
One thing I have noticed is that I have a Mac Pro connected by a hard wired ethernet connection and a MacBook Air connected by wireless connection. I only have the hanging problem on my MacBook Air. This leads me to believe that the problem is a wireless problem.
Unchecking the fraudulent website box does fix this problem.

That's pretty weak logic, don't you think? You could also argue that the problem is more inherent to MacBook Airs, or laptops, since those are also points of difference between the two computers.

Strangely, Safari (4.0.1) would hang when loading web pages. Mail was also hanging.

I quit and relaunched Mail and an old unsent message appeared in my Drafts folder. I tried to delete it, but each time I'd relaunch Mail, the draft message would reappear. So I simply mailed the message to myself, successfully getting rid of it from the Drafts folder. Don't understand what has happened, but since then neither Mail nor Safari hang!