This aspect of Safari 5.1 is really lame!

Well... I removed all the plug-ins and extensions.

Repaired permissions (although Disk Utility couldn't handle this, had to use Disk Warrior).

Reinstalled **** CS5 because I couldn't get the flash plug-in to reinstall alone.

Good news, I no longer seem to be getting the 'refresh all windows' error message. Nor do I get the 'plug-in failure' message. Although it has only been 30min... give it time.

Bad news, no video loads on any website whatsoever. Awesome.

Someone help?

Samuel, you now have to reinstall the plugins, go to YouTube try and play something and it should give you a link to flash, later on, whenever safari tells you you need a plugin, just look for a link on the page you're on, otherwise google the plugin it tells you that youre missing and install that way.

I did it the second way and put the plug ins on the flash drive I put all my Mac app install dmg's on so I have a backup of them

Safari 5.0.5 works fine, here. I kinda doubt it's the extention making 5.1 freak out and use gobs of memory, but who knows.

Thanks Grim,

Thing is, I reinstalled flash through CS.

My problem is now that nothing appears. So YouTube, Google Street View, you name it... come up blank. No referal, nothing.

Grrrr.

Good news is, Firefox works fine... so I guess I'll be abandoning safari until they fix it.

Same for me, Macbook 2.26ghz running 10.6.8. Every time I use it, web pages are not responding...do you want to force reload. Something is wrong here. Firefox seems a-ok...so I will come back once the kinks are ironed out here.

This issue may have something to do with cable modems temporarily losing the connection. However, it doesn't matter what is causing it, we need to get Apple to fix this if Safari is to be a viable browser. I use the web version of outlook and can't tell you the number of times it has forced a refresh while in the middle of typing up an email. It's a very frustrating bug and I am going to contact Apple to fix it. Please do the same if this is bothering you.

For now, Firefox will have to do!

Prince Russ wrote:

This issue may have something to do with cable modems temporarily losing the connection.

Definitely NOT the problem here.

I may have a solution for the problem of repetitive crashs of "Safari Web Content" : deactivate the "Ultimate Satus Bar" (1.2.3) extension, if you have it installed and active on your Safari.

Since I had deactivate it, I no longer have any crash. That's a shame because I think this extension is one of the best ones for Safari.

@shadowpit Hi, developer of Ultimate Status Bar here, I haven't had time to read through the whole thread yet (will do this afternoon), but if anyone can create steps to reproduce this and it's USB fault then I'll do my best to solve it.

I just switched from 32 to 64 bit safari (check box in the "get info" for the application) and it seems to have helped. Then again, I also closed a bunch of my tabs (still have 81). I figured I would post this experience so that others having the problem could check if they are runnign safari in 32 or 64 bit.

@Anasha : I'm running Safari in 64bits, as it should be. It's weird that 64bits seems to be less stable than the 32bits. I think that, in 64bits, Flash is not loaded IN Safari but as another processus. You should reactivate 64bits I think.

@Xenomonkey : Thanks for your fast response. Has I said on my e-mail, you should reproduce the problem on http://forum.macbidouille.com/index.php?showtopic=347623.

Another info : I have 26 tabs on 10 windows. It may be a source of the problem.

Maybe I wasn't clear, I had previously switched it to 32 bit to accomidate cooliris but I disabled that and turned on 64 bit and that seems to have helped the situation. If others having the problem are also running in 32 bit, that could at least be increasing the problem.

Closing windows and tabs definitely helps too.

Yes, having multiple tabs or windows open is part of the problem as originally described. You don't get the warning message in question if you don't have more than one tab open.

For the record, I always run Safari in 64 bit.

John Muccigrosso wrote:

Yes, having multiple tabs or windows open is part of the problem as originally described. You don't get the warning message in question if you don't have more than one tab open.

For the record, I always run Safari in 64 bit.

^^^^ What he said ^^^^