Safari 6 gets stuck; won't scroll or scrolls to show blank area

If you close Web Inspector, your page will load. See my response about that here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4140419?start=0&tstart=0

I'm experiencing the same behaviour without even opening the inspector.

On this page, for example, I couldn't copy/past the link of kbern because as soon as I tried to click the mouse in front of the text, the page zoomed back to the top of the posting.

Likewise trying to click the reply icon wouldn't work until I found that the "button" was at least 20 pixels below the text. Even then, trying to type in the editor sent me back to the top of the page.

I resorted to Chrome to enter this!

I've reset Safari 6. I've disabled extensions - including the developer menu. Sometimes the behaviour starts after a few seconds, other times I can work for a few hours before it hits.

Once it begins, it transfers to every open window/tab in Safari and I have no recourse but to quit.

@kbern, you can actually debug using Safari 6.0 inspector. Apparently following your link, it seems that on Safari 6.0, enables uncaught exceptions by default.

All you have to do is untick it for the pages to load properly. I have the same exact problem as jgarbers. I was wondering why everyone is saying safari 6.0 was so fast and smooth, while I'm having rendering problerms. Turns out not everyone opens the developer menu. Only people like us who work debugging pages use that.

So the solution, if you want the Developer Menu on always, you just untick the break on uncaught exceptions, and your pages should load properly.

Screenshot here:

chris: Yes, I know that. I gave a link, in my post above, to my writeup of that:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4140419?start=0&tstart=0

Actually, closing the web inspector didn't cause the problem to go away for me. Most of the time the freezes occured, it wasn't even open. Still I've unchecked the "all uncaught exceptions" and am waiting to see if that makes Safari behaviour normal again. Thanks for the pointer, KBern!

on the same link you gave @kbern:

you said "Though that still doesn't solve the fact that I can't debug in Safari 6 at all."

So I thought you didn't know "uncheck all uncaught exceptions". Because if you did, you can debug in Safari 6.0. without any problems 🙂

@jmtl

- Regardless of closing, it still pause uncaught exceptions, its either you untick it based on the screenshot I provided. Or disable the web inspector completely, in Safari's Preferences > Advanced > Show Develop menu bar.

Chris. We need to stop this "tit for tat"... you wrote:

"... Because if you did, you can debug in Safari 6.0. without any problems 🙂"

That's simply not true, Chris. Perhaps my setup is different than yours, but I stand by my statement: with those breakpoints unchecked, I still cannot debug in Safari. Period. Maybe you can, that's great. But the problem is, and the reason I posted, is that I can't. And I believe others can't. So we're looking for a solution to that problem.

okay i get it @kbern,

Solution for you to debug is just use Webkit's nightly, if you don't want to switch to chrome. Basically there's an option there to use Webkit Console.

*****, but I hate Safari 6.0 console's as well.

Experiencing the exact same behaviour as jtml. No inspector here as well.

Any news on this?

(Fun fact: Also had to resort to Chrome to come here. 😁)

So far, since following the instructions in the link posted above

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4140419?start=0&tstart=0

and restarting the machine, Safari has been working fine.