Safari Freezing Up (LION OSX)

Same problem here on a mid 2007 imac that was working fine before Snow Leopard. After clean (erase disk) install of Lion, dislpay freezes up constantly. (can still ssh in though). Same old display driver problems they never fixed in SL.

Same here, with a 12 month-old 15" MPB. I have to to a hard shut down three times a day; Safari freezes, iTunes also, iPhoto, etc. Getting furious at this 'upgrade'.

when i installed Lion

everything worked great

not when i use safari

usualy i use google chrome as a browser

but with the new safari i wanted to use it and take advantege of the new layout

so i start using safari

and suddenly it freezes the whole systeme

and i cant restart my MBP the normal way

now i use google chrome

and everything works great

itunes iphoto imovie

everything works fast

i just have to stay away from safari

and i hope apple will fix it soon

I have a new MBA 13 and have the same problem. It is as if the Safari page turns into a screenshot or something and I can move my cursor around but the page does not respond. I have to exit out of Safari and start again.

Hey folks, having same problems and it's got to be Lion. Bought new MacBook Pro several days ago. Nothing installed on it, just clean out of box. Safari worked fine before Lion upgrade. Once Lion was installed, Safari was slow, would freeze and even gave me the equivalent of the Windows blue screen forcing a hard shut down.

Just posting this because i know tech support can sometimes send users down all kinds of paths chasing shadows. Admittedly, some of that may be necessary with older Macs. But, as mentioned, mine is new out of the box and I specifically did not do anything to it until upgrading the OS to Lion since i figued that should be the first thing i do. Thus, my conclusion is this is a Lion issue which i hope may save some of you the time and frustration of trying to fix. Hopefully Apple will figure it out and have an update soon.

In the meantime, i won't be upgrading to Lion on my other Mac.

It's obviously lion. I have a brand new imac, installed Lion and Safari crashes half the time I play a video. Never had any problems before.

I feel like we are all in the same boat together.

MBP 2.0 GHz i7 purchased in March. Prior to last week, my machine hummed. Now it coughs and sputters. Safari freezes when I have lots of windows open. I have probably forced it to close 5 times throughout the course of this work day. Also, I've noticed a lot more lag when opening and closing applications and using Launch Pad and Mission Control. There are also some 3-4 second freezes when swithing into and out of the latter two.

I thought it might be my RAM (4GB), but I'm getting a sneaking suspicion that something foul is in the air!

pretty sure we can all agree, we need a solution to the issue instead of all posting our issues. Im pretty sure its curtain that if you made a comment in this post, your having the same issue. To those who restart their machines. No need for that. Turn airport off, then turn it on again and it will work. but does anyone have a solution to this problem??? it defiantly a lion issue because this has never happened to my mac when it had snow leopard. if anyone has a solution.. give us a hand! as you all may kno, the genus bar.. well you know the rest..

same problem, brand new imac and it crashes when a movie got played online in safari or firefox.

In the same boat. 2 computers.......Both on Lion.......

comp 1: 2.16 ghz intel 2 duo processor, 2 gb 677 mhz ddr2 sdram, 11gb free space

OSX:

Safari:5.1 (7534.48.3)

Firefox: 3.6.3

comp 2: 2.4 ghz intel 2 duo, 4 gb 1067 mhz ddr3

OSX: 10.7

Safari: 5.1 (7534.48.3)

Firefox: 5.0.1

Comp 1 has issues with Firefox (probably due to a needed firefox upgrade), Comp 2 doesn't have issues with Safari until attempting to log on to CAC enabled websites. Then it hangs and freezes.

Comp 1 has track pad issues, it's extremely sensative now and the lightest touch while typing causes random things to happen

Comp 2 has had issues running very sluggish. Ran activity monitor it was the system sucking up the CPU. Rebooted, same issue. Restarted and booted from the new partition, Ran permission fix (several times and the same issues seemed to come up), ran fix disk (no issues), reinstalled Lion and that seemed to fix the sluggishness. Still has issues with Safari.

Most of my work is done on CAC, so this has brought me to a hault. Funny thing is, the first day everything worked like a dream (able to log on to CAC sites and everything....Even sites I'd never been able to visit before). Day 2 is when it went down hill. I have not purchased any new software, or changed any of my settings.

As upsetting as this is, though, apple seems to make right when they mess things up.....I'm confident they will do the same here.

I have also had the same freezing issue since I installed Lion; this issue never happend in Snow Leopard. The apps that seems to be culprit for my macbook laptob are safari, itunes and iphoto. It seems to happen when all three apps are being opened very close togeher.

Like most of these posts, I followeed all instructions to update the apps, clone the hard drive, slim down the hard drive, run disk utility before installing Lion...to no avail.

I agree with the several posts...Not Happy with Lion. I hope Apple gets aggresive to solve this issue.

I fixed all my Safari freezing issues, stuttering on long content and a slew of beach balls by installing Chrome..

Now all my problems have gone, sad to say Safari 5.1 is an Apple doozey.

I'll try again on another update..

that was exactly what i did

and it works +1

Safari was freezing on my MacBook Pro running Lion, especially when filling out online forms. Firefox seems not to have the same problem, so I'll use it for now. Importing all bookmarks, etc. in to Firefox is a two-click process.

Same here on my MBP.

Safari is freezing all the time.

Can't Apple do any better? Running Firefox for now, very smoothly.