Safari crash in text box: 100% reproducible

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Safari crash in text box: 100% reproducible

Since yesterday Safari has been crashing several times an hour.
More often than not, the browser crashes when I type in a text box input field.

For example, as soon as I type the first letter in the title field of this post Safari will crash.
This is 100% reproducible.
It will also crash for example if I try to look up a ticker symbol on some sites or try to use the input fields on Google Adsense.

I'm using Firefox Deer Park UB to type this, but Firefox also crashes sometimes. As do other programs such as real player.

This only started yesterday, before then I had no major problems.

I can't put it down to 10.4.6 or the firmware upgrade as the crashing started well after the system upgrade and well before the firmaware upgrade.

I just can't think what could have brought this on. The only new things I did were:
1. I created a word document with an "invoice" template. The template behaved very wierdly. The next day the crashing started.
2. I also updated Adobe Reader some point in the day.
3. Visited a financial site which wouldn't load for me (very unusual). Tech support told me to clear my cache which I did. It didn't help because the problem was on their server.

Anyone else had this?

imac core duo 2GB 20", Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Apr 13, 2006 1:34 AM

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macgabe Author

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Apr 13, 2006 1:44 AM in response to macgabe

Just wanted to add that although Safari will always crash if I try to make a new post on this forum and start to type in the SUBJECT title field, it doesn't crash if I just type in the MESSAGE field (for example replying to someone else's post). Surely this is a big clue!

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macgabe Author

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Apr 13, 2006 2:22 AM in response to macgabe

I've now tried "Reset Safari…" and disabled plug-ins, Java and Javascript. Allowed pop-ups. Disabled display warning when sending unsecure form. Still crashes as I type the first letter of a word in a text field.

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macgabe Author

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Apr 13, 2006 8:28 AM in response to macgabe

I've found that Safari is fine on other user accounts on my computer. It's just this one account.

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Apr 13, 2006 10:37 AM in response to macgabe

Strange. Maybe try repairing permissions.

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macgabe Author

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Apr 13, 2006 10:50 AM in response to Dirty Hippie

Tried that already 🙂 Also tried trashing various Internet plugins and Safari prefs but it didn't help. Also Rapidweaver has stopped working on the same user account - but also seems to work OKish on other user accounts. Started happening at the same time so I'm sure the 2 must be connected.

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TAV

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Apr 13, 2006 5:03 PM in response to macgabe

I've seen this situation before, but I'm currently digging around to try and retrieve an answer on the Safari issue.

But as for alternative browsers, I'm not sure why you are still fiddling with the Deer Park beta, as Firefox 1.5.0.2 Universal has been released. Give that browser a shot.

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macgabe Author

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Apr 14, 2006 12:58 AM in response to TAV

I missed that release! thanks 🙂 am downloading now…

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macgabe Author

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Apr 15, 2006 12:42 AM in response to macgabe

I've now completely reinstalled my system and the problem persists on this one user account.

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May 19, 2006 1:54 PM in response to macgabe

Giving it a whirl...

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Answer 10

May 19, 2006 1:55 PM in response to macgabe

OK, so it works for me

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Teddosan

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May 25, 2006 4:30 AM in response to markmalone

I've had a similar problem. Playing around on my new Macbook, everything was fine. It seemed to be running a bit hot, but everything was good.

Then suddenly everything went wrong. The Big Bang board games bundled with it all crashed before fully launching. Mail launched then crashed, so did iChat. iPhoto was fine, and the problem described above with Safari also occurred. The same problem happened with Camino, but not Firefox (all latest builds).

No problems on the main Admin account though. In the end I trashed the user account with the problem, created a new one, and hey presto! It all worked.

My worry is; for how long. Initially I thought it might be a hat issue from the Core Duo running very hot( around 95 degrees), but it seems from looking around that people on PPC also have had a similar problem.

I guess it's just fingers crossed time!

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