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Safari 5.0 Crashing Unexpecteding Repeatedly!!!!!

I have a PowerPC Mac G5 using Mac OSX 10.5.8. I downloaded Safari 5.0 and have had nothing but repeatedly crashing. o have sent in repoorts with no replies from Apple. Also websites come real slow with Safari 5.0. Anyone else having this problem and does Apple know of this problem? Hope Apple has a fix soon for this problem.

PowerPC Mac G5 Quad, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2.5GHz

Posted on Jun 17, 2010 12:13 PM

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andyBall_uk

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Jun 30, 2010 7:44 AM in response to David Hill2

Hi David

looking for one when it crashed with all plugins removed, yes - but I see this latest shows Flash at least,
so I guess you put one/all of them back... understandable - there's a lot of Flash reliant sites out there.

Depending on how 'reliably' crashy it is... I would hope to test for a while without any plugins,
and if that proves incident free, to pop 'em back one at a time, starting with Flash, quitting Safari in between.
Then testing again (slow & dreary, I know)

If Flash appears to be the trigger, I'd remove & reinstall it ( but you did that already? ) and also remove DivX support - not that your report
firmly suggests it, but one or two users have cited it. I would also try an earlier Flash version, if reinstalling it doesn't help.

andyBall_uk

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Jun 30, 2010 7:58 AM in response to andyBall_uk

If you haven't already - I'd also try re-applying the Safari 5 installer from http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

Franimal

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Jun 30, 2010 8:03 AM in response to LargeAl

I'm trying the download, thx. This crashing thing is like owning a PC all over again!!

Franimal

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Jun 30, 2010 8:08 AM in response to David Hill2

So, I'm not alone with the crashing thing!! It's like owning a PC all over again.... I'm trying the Adobe download update to see if that works, and I'll continue reading the replies on this topic.

David Hill2 Author

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Jun 30, 2010 8:57 PM in response to andyBall_uk

Hi Andy!
The Internet Plug-Ins are still out except Flash Player plugin and flash player.xpt and the rest are on the Desktop. That crash report was from last night and i have not put any back in as of now. Today it has crashed about 5 times today with thosw 2 flash palyer files.. So are you saying keep testing and put one or two plug-ins back into the Internet Plug-Ins folder in the Library? I will keep count of the crashes too!

andyBall_uk

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Jul 1, 2010 9:09 AM in response to David Hill2

Hi David

if the crashes are frequent enough to tell, I'd test w/o Flash at all - it's easiest to disable plugins via Safari-Preferences-Security... or the files can be removed from the plug ins folder with Safari quit.

David Hill2 Author

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Jul 6, 2010 7:08 PM in response to David Hill2

Andy i just got this message after safari crashed: "the application safari quit unexpectley the problem has been caused by flash player 10.4 - 10.5 plug-in". these are located
in HD LibraryInternet Plug-in. my other plug-ins are in the folder Internet Plug-In on desktop

AdobePDFViewer.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
flashplayer.xpt

andyBall_uk

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Jul 7, 2010 3:40 AM in response to David Hill2

Hi David

If you get repeated crashes due Flash plugin, test in a new account again... or trash these folders:

Home/Library/Caches/Adobe/Flash Player/

and

Home/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/

if Flash based crashes persist in a new account, or after trashing those folders, and you've already reinstalled Flash, then short of a conflict 'tween Flash & your PDF viewer plugin, I'd suggest rolling back Flash to 10.0.45, although there are security concerns about that, since 10.1 contained some fixes in this area.

Nov 18, 2011 6:13 AM in response to David Hill2

I have the same problem, checked safari is in applications folder, did the internet plugins repair, did not work, deleated safari completely, still crashing. Am at ends wits, had to get another computer to post this message. It crashes within five seconds.

Please help not really computer savvy.

How do you get on internet to download when Safari crashes?

Lizzy_li

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May 5, 2012 6:34 AM in response to David Hill2

I have a MBA with 10.7.2 Lion Mac OS. It works good. And I downloaded QQ app form the App Store. It works also good. In QQ, it has an additional function called QQ space. When I click the icon of QQ space in QQ, it will open the Safari and I can use it. It worked good at least 2 months ago. But yesterday, when I used it as usually, Safari suddenly unexpected quit! ! And I can use Safari open everything except QQ space!!! If I use the QQ space ,it Quit !! But it can work together for months! So I created a new account , the problem is same, and I returned to the old account and deleted the preferences .plist for Safari, the problem is still! I am crazy!! So I download another web IE named Firefox, it also can't open the QQ space, but it not quit, and show a wrong messeage : can not connect to the server. So, I change the location in Preferences in Neywork, and it can works !!! But Safari also can't, and I gave up. So, is there anyone can tell me what's wrong with Safari or why ?I really wanna know the reason !Thank u

chepin

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Aug 17, 2012 7:31 AM in response to TheOn3LeftBehind

I have the same problem I get the google chrome interfering with the Mac OS sytem and the safari page.

I am wondering if this is because newer OS have come on the scene and they want you to buy it because the software is outdated.

Safari 5.0 Crashing Unexpecteding Repeatedly!!!!!