Why Does Safari Web Content Constantly Quit & Re-Boot?

It doesn't always crash, it just gets burdened with using up so much RAM, that it will refresh the Web Content on its own, so there would be no record of a crash. Usually, I will do it manually, whenever things slow, such as writing or non-responsive to mouse clicks, etc., but it lately has been doing it on its own, even when everything seems to be working fine, and I'm right in the middle of writing or viewing something, which then disappears. Very frustrating....

Sorry, obviously not 10, but 5.... 5.1.10

And now I'm seeing the Web Content (using about 2+GBs of RAM) jump up to as much as 400% CPU usage!! I then must wait a bit, then it settles down to just 75% - 50%.... Facebook tends to cause huge RAM usage, but even when I delete it, it's still very high usage.... I can even run Opera far longer without high RAM usage than when I use Safari.... very aggravating, since I would expect Apple's own browser to function more efficiently with its own OS & hardware...

Today, Safari has been self-rebooting almost every HALF-HOUR! What is up with this? Sheesh....

Yet another bug Apple still hasn't corrected. Your last post of course, does not appear on this page, yet I was able to read it when I was notified via email.... You'd think Apple could get their own website to at least work properly...

Anyway, I did download that app (thank you), and here's what it came up with:

Hardware Information:

iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010)

iMac - model: iMac11,2

1 3.2 GHz Intel Core i3 CPU: 2 cores

12 GB RAM

Video Information:

ATI Radeon HD 5670 - VRAM: 512 MB

Startup Items:

ArcanaStartupSound - Path: /Library/StartupItems/ArcanaStartupSound

System Software:

Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) - Uptime: 1 day 1:43:14

Disk Information:

WDC WD1001FALS-40Y6A0 disk0 : (931.51 GB)

(null) (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 200 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 931.19 GB (485.76 GB free)

OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5680H

USB Information:

Brother MFC-5890CN

Apple Inc. Built-in iSight

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

APC Back-UPS ES 450 FW:844.K2 .D USB FW:K2

Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Internal Memory Card Reader

FireWire Information:

Thunderbolt Information:

Kernel Extensions:

com.globaldelight.driver.BoomDevice (1.1)

com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (1.5.2)

com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring (9.0)

Problem System Launch Daemons:

[not loaded] org.samba.winbindd.plist

Problem System Launch Agents:

[failed] com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

[loaded] com.bombich.ccc.plist

[loaded] com.crashplan.engine.plist

[loaded] com.freemacsoft.appcleanerd.plist

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist

[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist

Launch Agents:

[failed] com.brother.LOGINserver.plist

[failed] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

[loaded] com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist

[loaded] net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist

[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist

User Launch Agents:

[not loaded] com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae.plist

[loaded] com.cnet.ttengine.plist

[loaded] com.crashplan.javacheck.plist

User Login Items:

Dropbox

iTunesHelper

Dropbox

AppCleaner Helper

HoudahSpotHelper

CrashPlan menu bar

Flux

3rd Party Preference Panes:

APC PowerChute Personal Edition

AppTrap

TechTracker

Flash Player

Flip4Mac WMV

FolderGlancePrefs

Growl

Perian

ArcanaStartupSound

Internet Plug-ins:

AdobePDFViewer.plugin

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin

DirectorShockwave.plugin

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin

GarminGpsControl.plugin

Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin

googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

o1dbrowserplugin.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

User Internet Plug-ins:

Bad Fonts:

None

Top Processes by CPU:

100% WebProcess

13% activitymonitord

6% EtreCheck

4% syslogd

3% PluginProcess

3% Boom

2% WindowServer

2% Activity Monitor

1% Safari

1% ClipGrab

Top Processes by Memory:

2.64 GB WebProcess

2.08 GB WindowServer

811 MB Mail

664 MB Safari

332 MB java

98 MB Preview

86 MB mds

74 MB Finder

61 MB Dropbox

49 MB coreservicesd

Virtual Memory Statistics

3.86 GB Free RAM

6.45 GB Active RAM

940 MB Inactive RAM

798 MB Wired RAM

3.19 GB Page-ins

316 MB Page-outs

One thing, since some here have suggested deselecting Java, I have attempted to do that, in fact I currently have "allow Javascript", but the "allow Java" preference is deselected. However, it still shows up in my Activity Monitor, and when I attempt to force quit it, it will disappear, but then almost immediately pop right back up. What's the deal with that?

thanks

This has really become a MAJOR ISSUE! I can understand, if Safari gets so bogged down in it's love for overeating RAM, that it just stops functioning, it would then be time to reboot the Web Content, and WE can do that ourselves, simply by using Activity Monitor. Instead, maybe due to the latest updating (for me, up to Safari 5.1.10), it is choosing to reboot itself WHENEVER IT CHOOSES! I am usually in the middle, or at the end, of writing out a message, or filling out a form, etc, and POOF, it all goes away!!

I am going to have to call Apple myself and complain about this one, as it's been driving me crazy, happening far too often throughout the day! It's ironic, and even more maddening, that if you accidentally hit something that would take you away from the page, a warning window pops up asking if you want to leave, or finish writing what you're writing. However, when SAFARI wishes to take you & everything you're doing on the page, OFF, there is no warning, no option to hold it off, at least until you can save what you're in the middle of! Once I see the url beginning to turn blue, it's too late to try and highlight & save all my work! This really, really is infuriating.....

Hey Allan, Well, most of these programs are not anything I voluntarily installed, and so don't really know what they even are, much less how they got in there. I've looked and done searches and still can't find some of these, where are they?

Nevermind, I found them, no thanks to doing a search, wonder why none of them even showed up when I searched?

I'll delete them, and see what happens, I had only been looking at plugins & extensions, no one's ever mentioned "launch agents", etc.... neither here, nor when I've talked to Apple techs.....

Well, I cleared out some of those bad programs, and some other unneeded files & programs, rebooted Safari, and it's running as bad or worse as ever, refreshing itself within 20 minutes of opening it, and Java is still showing it's in play, and using at times, nearly 50% CPU, even though I have it deselected in the preferences.... And before I did the cleaning, the Web Content for some reason soared up to 999% CPU usage!!