Safari crashes on Mavericks!

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Safari crashes on Mavericks!

I'm having problems on my 2009 MacBook Air using Safari on OS X Mavericks,

while Safari is fully functional on my iMac.

Once I start up Safari, computer will not respond to anything I do and therefore need to force shutdown and restart the MBA in order for it to work again. Need to use Chrome to use the internet and even to write this!

(Updating to Mavericks has caused my MBA to be really slow, while everything worked fine using Mountain Lion)

Please help! Any help would be more than welcome 😕

MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9), '09 MacBook Air

Posted on Oct 30, 2013 10:03 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 30, 2013 12:44 PM in response to JurryMcFlurry

Not enough free space on the disk can slow the entire system down.

Click your Apple menu  top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click About This Mac > More Info > Storage

Make sure there's at least 15% free disk space.

If there's enough available storage space, the startup disk may need repairing.

Launch Disk Utility located in HD > Applications > Utillities

Select the startup disk on the left then select the First Aid tab.

Click: Verify Disk (not Verify Disk Permissions)

If DU reports errors, restart your Mac while holding down the Command + R keys. From there you should be able to acces the built in utilities in OS X Recovery

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