Why does Safari hang in OS X Lion?

I did the same. Problem vanashed. Safari is seriously broken. Also, was suprized just how well crome is working.

I am not now, nor have I ever been, an Apple Employee.

Except for people explicitly identified as such, people here are all fellow users just like you.

If I had been an Apple Employee as long as people here have been accusing me of it, I'd be able to retire on the worth of my Apple stock options. 😝

Neither 5.1 nor 5.1.1 are acceptable. Apple should be aware of it by now, and one can only hope that the next update of 10.7.* will include a working version of Safari. Otherwise, I agree with other members of this forum, Chrome is fine. Sorry for Apple, whom I have been using and supporting since 1992.

I am *not* an Apple employee or associate. I wish I were, those stock options everybody keeps mentioning would do me a lot of good now.

For you perhaps; I've used nothing but Safari for web surfing from my Mac for years and have rarely seen a hang (and when I have it's been due to a misbehaving plugin like Flash), so I continue to believe it may well be an ISP DNS or other issue.

"For you perhaps".

For me surely, what I post refers to my own experience and occurrence.

It is called "different strokes".

As a matter of fact, in addition to Safari, I also use Chrome, Firefox, and even Internet Explorer (on a Windows machine).

Yes, and I by no means mean to either belittle the issues you are having or discount them, but rather am noting that I've never experienced it myself in what has been months of using Safari 5.1 and 5.1.1 for hours per day.

I started using Safari since it was made available, and was greatly satisfied when at some version which I can't remember now (possibily a year year ago), I could access a certain web site that claimed it would only accept Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Safari performed impeccably, and I was spared the tedium of having to boot into VMware's Windows XP Pro (the Windows machine I mentioned previously came after that).

But starting with 5.1, I have had some unpleasant surprises, that I reported to AppleSeed.

As for ISPs and DNS, I had the dubious privilege of using many different ISPs in three different continents, during the past two months, with Safari 5.1/5.1.1 behaving the same way.

In spite of all, I still have Safari set as the default browser, and I would be very very much happy if Apple could finally do something about Safari.

Charly Avital wrote:

But starting with 5.1, I have had some unpleasant surprises, that I reported to AppleSeed.

As for ISPs and DNS, I had the dubious privilege of using many different ISPs in three different continents, during the past two months, with Safari 5.1/5.1.1 behaving the same way.

Your best bet is still to use the bug button, if you have it enabled, to let Apple know when a site isn't displaying/behaving properly.

"Your best bet is still to use the bug button, if you have it enabled, to let Apple know when a site isn't displaying/behaving properly."

Thanks for the tip, I'll do that.

Have 10.7.2 and 16 gig of RAM on iMac and still Safari hangs occasionally. Have switched to FireFox after many weeks of mysterious and frustrating freezes. So far, FireFox performs well with maybe one freeze in a week's of constant use.

Could it be? Installed Safari 5.1.2 and so far, my computer is stable. I have yet to see random screen rendering errors (stray discolored pixels) crop up and my rig hasn't frozen yet. Fingers crossed.

Same situation in my system, and same hope :-)

I did try this solutions:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090622144614397

http://tech.kateva.org/2011/07/contact-sync-****-brings-my-imac-to-its.html

I works for me for a while, when Safari starts to hangs again, i did it again and works, so, seems that it is something regarding to this database corruptions and RSS feeds

Hope this Help

Luis G.

I finally solved my Safari / Lion problems after a week of total difficulty. The Mac was unuseable even with 2 fresh system installs.

10.7.2 MacBook Pro 2.53 intel core 2 duo Safari 5.1.2.

Safari would lock up, spin beachball, crash, system hang, other apps e.g. mail & firefox would also freeze after safari was opened, only very long restarts would give brief (minutes) respite before the freezes restarted.

Twice I tried reinstalling Lion; booting from recovery disk, used disk utility to repair HD, repairing permissions, re installed safari, things just got worse every time I tried....

Now at last I think I have fixed it, by trashing all preference files mentioning Safari in the Library folder (option key & Go menu to reveal) and after crashing safari again, then restarting twice, I seem to have my old Mac back! Fingers crossed that things don't go awry again. I had previously trashed the prefs to no effect, but maybe I missed some that time...

Tried this solution bernardp. Thanks for the tip but didn't work. I swapped from Vista to Mac a few years ago because it was so bad. This really has gone beyond a joke and Apple's arrogance in taking people's money for a bug ridden piece of junk called Lion and not acknowledging the thousands of threads and webpages complaining about the software is appalling. Others can come back and defend Apple but there are way, way too many complaints for it to be a minor glitch. I've read about disabling SOPHOS, wiping the user library and not the system library, the problem is waking it from sleep, do a clean install of Lion etc etc but why should I?????? I paid good money in good faith for this product and it doesn't work properly so I have to spend hours trying to search for a reason why I see the spinning beach ball of death constantly when using Safari, Mail, SketchUp etc etc. In the meantime, utter silence from Apple and "try a clean install sir" from the Apple Customer Care. I don't know how to and there are loads of threads saying a clean install doesn't work!! Its unbelievably frustrating and goes against Apple's smug boast. "it just works'? - no it doesn't!! Rant over!!