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safari 6.0 crash when right clicking a link and choosing open in new tab

Hi all, just a general question. I admit i did not search the forums yet. Hopefully this little annoyance can be resolved.



When using safari on say CNN.COM i'll right click on a link and choose Open in new tab. safari randomly disappears. no crash warnings, just gone. I can open it right up and be fine sometimes all day. This has happened to me about 5x since ML was released (i wiped my laptop the day it came out)


This has happened on a couple of different website at different times of the day. only safari was running. No other apple apps have this issue.


I have a MacBook Pro from earily '08 type 4,1

i have only apple software on this machine

i do have adobe flash installed v11.3 updated today.

i do have lastpass enabled

i do have ad-block disabled


While i'm waiting for help from you guys i'll disable all addon's and try to remove adobe to see if that is the issue. Is there any other steps i can try like delete .plist file or maybe even trying a new user profile. I am a IT professional and am not afraid to get my hands dirty trying to get this resovlved.


Thanks in advance.


P.S. i'll search the forums too and if i see a similar post i'll remove this one.


Bill Siegfried.

Safari-OTHER, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 9, 2012 9:10 AM

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Dec 23, 2012 3:19 AM in response to BillSiegfried

Hi, same thing happened to me. What I have found so far is that the "crash" of Safari can be solved if you deactivate the Safari extensions. Go to Preferences -> Extensions and turn OFF the general Extension button. Extension button to "on" doesn't do the job even if you have deactivated all the individuall extensions!


For me it worked out. But of course it is not an ideal solution since everybody has some useful extensions where is used to work with. But at least Safari works.

Jan 2, 2013 7:49 PM in response to BillSiegfried

Same problem here!


I've recently reinstalled Lion, and everything is ok untill I updated to 10.7.5 version and needed to upgrade Flash player plugin from 11.1 to 11.5. I'm quite sure that the Flash player is the cause of this issue since after uninstaling it, no anymore crashes to me.


I have tried to downgrade flash version to 11.1 but this version is not compatiable with Lion 10.7.5 and blocked. So far, I'm using Safari with no flash plugin installed as my main browser; and take advantage of Chrome when it comes to flash player stuffs.


Hope this helps!

Jan 3, 2013 1:41 PM in response to Outrange

I see the crash with CMD-click. 😕


One thing that's odd about this is how intermittent it is. That makes it much harder to troubleshoot . . .


Also, everyone: not to beat a dead horse, but please submit this bug directly to Apple. They do not monitor these boards:


http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html


For what it is worth, I _may_ have seen fewer (if any) crashes since I reset Safari (under the Safari menu). Extensions are still on.

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