Safari keeps reloading every tab

yep, I concur that this happens all the time if you have a lot of tabs open. This happened on the old version of Safari but only after 8 hours or so; this new version it starts happening just a few minutes in.

Jason,

Your entries on 18 & 19 Sept. completely resolved the multiple/all tabs loading in Safari. Although Chrome is my preferred browser, I always like to use Safari to keep it up to date but the tab problems had me stumped.

Thank you very much. 🙂

I was having the same problem. Even though I don't use typically use Safari, I didn't want to disable the multi-process windows (via the Debug menu enabled by "defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1").

I don't usually use Safari, but was using it to log into Facebook with a different account than my personal one, so I could test games. It turns out that playing a game on Facebook was a very reliable way to quickly reproduce this reloading-all-tabs behavior, and it didn't matter if it was a Flash game or html game. If I opened a new single-process window and played the game, it'd crash. It seemed to crash even faster if it was an html game.

So I tried all the suggestions that everyone gave in various threads here:

>> tried deleting ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db -- didn't fix it

>> tried deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist -- didn't fix it

>> tried disabling Java -- didn't fix

>> tried emptying the cache (via menu) -- didn't fix

>> tried increasing to 500MB database storage -- didn't fix

>> tried deleting cookies and removing all site data (via prefs/privacy) multiple times -- didn't fix

>> tried uninstalling all extensions and disabling extensions -- didn't fix

Finally, I reset Safari.

Seems to have fixed it for me.

Sorry, I take that back.

The problem is still occurring, even after resetting Safari.

BTW, I only have one or two tabs open, period. Usually FB main page in one tab, and a game in the other.

The only way I was finally able to resolve all tabs opening in Safari, was to first export all bookmarks for a backup, clear all caches, then delete all bookmarks, clearing all caches, close Safari, then import bookmarks.

Sometimes even importing back the Safari bookmarks did not work, so I exported my Google Chrome bookmarks and repeated the above process but this time importing the Chrome bookmarks. I did this about a month ago and have not had the problem recur with any Safari bookmarks, tabs, etc. I imagine if you have another browser's bookmarks (FireFox, et al) that you could use those exported bookmarks to import into Safari.

Hope this helps.

Completely resetting Safari (and losing all bookmarks and whatnot) did not help.

When I run an html game in a single-process window and it crashes, then the report consistently shows Thread 0 crashed and the stack trace indicates it happened when playing audio. It always shows the audio stuff in the stack trace. So I'm assuming that the problem is an audio bug, and that there's nothing I can do about it until Apple fixes it.

I'm running Safari 5.1.2 (6534.52.7) on a MacBook (aluminum MacBook5,1) still on Snow Leopard, w/8GB ram.

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fffffe007c5 __memcpy + 37

1 ...pple.audio.units.Components 0x000000010fb2ac00 AUNetSendEntry + 35487

2 ...pple.audio.units.Components 0x000000010faa87d1 0x10faa4000 + 18385

3 ...pple.audio.units.Components 0x000000010facfe94 SystemOutputAUEntry + 1539

4 ...pple.audio.units.Components 0x000000010fb2c4df AUMultiChannelMixerEntry + 4785

5 ...apple.audio.units.AudioUnit 0x00007fff86869c6e AudioUnitSetProperty + 55

6 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x00007fff86e4156b SubmixGraph::ConnectInputChannel(bool, MixerChannel*, bool) + 425

7 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x00007fff86e42e07 AQMEDevice::AddRunningClient(AQIONodeClient*, bool) + 233

8 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x00007fff86e2600c AudioQueueObject::StartRunning(AQIONode*) + 60

9 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x00007fff86e215ca AudioQueueObject::_Start(XAudioTimeStamp const&, bool) + 638

10 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x00007fff86e2174f AudioQueueObject::Start(XAudioTimeStamp const&, bool) + 27

11 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x00007fff86e3a509 AQServer_Start + 54

12 ....audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox 0x00007fff86e3b843 AudioQueueStart + 169

13 com.apple.MediaToolbox 0x00007fff8301a031 FigAudioQueueStart + 554

14 com.apple.MediaToolbox 0x00007fff830603f0 figAudioQueueRenderPipelineSetRate + 602

15 com.apple.MediaToolbox 0x00007fff83058400 bossSetPossiblyOutsourcedTimebaseRate + 190

16 com.apple.MediaToolbox 0x00007fff8305e822 bossStartTimebaseAndAudioContext + 61

17 com.apple.MediaToolbox 0x00007fff8305f31f figPlaybackBossPrerollCompleted + 444

18 com.apple.MediaToolbox 0x00007fff8305f574 figPlaybackBoss_AllMentorsPrerollComplete + 31

19 com.apple.CoreMedia 0x00007fff84780461 figDeferredNotificationRun + 52

20 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff85cd6bb8 __CFRunLoopRun + 6488

21 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff85cd4d8f CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 575

22 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff8a3a57ee RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 333

23 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff8a3a55f3 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 310

24 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff8a3a54ac BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 59

25 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8711deb2 _DPSNextEvent + 708

26 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8711d801 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 155

27 com.apple.Safari.framework 0x00007fff8103e2be -[BrowserApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 177

28 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff870e368f -[NSApplication run] + 395

29 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff870dc3b0 NSApplicationMain + 364

30 com.apple.Safari.framework 0x00007fff811fc924 SafariMain + 200

31 com.apple.Safari 0x0000000100000f1c 0x100000000 + 3868

Try WebKit Nightly Build http://www.webkit.org/ To me it doesn't solve all the problem, sometimes wvprocess crashes anyway, but now the reload are less frequently.

This has become a major issue since latest lion update 10.7.3 & none of the suggestions here have helped.

Cant disable Multi-process windows neither as use 1password constantly. Really annoying and dissapointing..!

Yes, also the 5.1.3 update of safari "keeps" these random reloads 😠 I'm with safari 5.1.4 for the developers, I will see if it crashes any (the reload is equal to say "webprocess crash", check the crash in your console, you will see a lot of webprocess-crash.)

No way... Safari 5.1.4, the same... All it's wrong with safari 5, Apple try it again... 😠

Isn't just easier to say "F**k off Safari and Apple" and use Firefox? Until it won't be fixed, I will use Firefox. What is wrong with you Apple?

just upgraded to 5.1.4 and the problem is still there!!! And everytime the pages refresh thery log me out of anything im logged into. **** it apple...

I had just switched to Chrome a few days ago because I had it with this problem, saw the Safari update notification yesterday and got excited. Jumped back into Safari and within seconds saw that the problem was still there. I'm very disappointed at Apple on this one. I prefer Safari, but I am so sick of losing my work with this page refresh thing. Ugh.

I have this exact problem and it seems to have gotten worse with 5.1.4. Now, my pages all reload every 15 - 20 minutes.

Same issue as previous poster. Every once in a while the Safari 5.1.4 is needed to force reload pages. Due to massive amount of memory usage, pages goes blank, and important information is lost.

So I´ve in some time have done most of my writings in Pages before posting into Safari.

Which also backs up youtube loader of either html5 or adobes flashplayer. Streaming content is not operating well

It has been noted under circumstances whenever I use other programs in OS X SL that Safari is not responding.

Thus Google´s Chrome is not slim in its operation either, even thou everything is up to date.