why does my safari close randomly?

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

Step 1

For this step, the title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select

SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages

from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

View ▹ Show Log List

from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter the name of the crashed application or process. For example, if Safari crashed, you would enter "Safari" (without the quotes.)

Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.

☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.

Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.

☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Step 2

In the Console window, select

DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION ▹ User Diagnostic Reports

(not Diagnostic and Usage Messages) from the log list on the left. There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points down. You'll see a list of crash reports. The name of each report starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report related to the process in question. The contents of the report will appear on the right. Use copy and paste to post the entire contents—the text, not a screenshot.

I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.

If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a crash, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.

In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)

Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report—they're very long and rarely helpful.

My MacBookPro just had a new hard drive installed, and my OS is pretty up to date; however, the same problem is occurring that I experienced before getting a new hard drive and that has to do with Safari randomly crashing while using Netflix. Does anyone know of any helpful solutions?

Additional information:

In the Console application, the crash under "User Diagnostic Report" is listed: com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64_2015-04-16-084242_Stevens-MacBook-Pro.crash

Also, the log in the Diagnostic Report is as follows:

Path: /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices /com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64

Responsible: Safari [1735]

0x108852000 - 0x108852ff8 com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64 (9600 - 9600.5.17) <47073171-784C-332D-B3A7-FC9D0046BAA3> /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices /com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.WebKit.Plugin.64

0x108859000 - 0x108859ffe PluginProcessShim.dylib (7600.5.17) <E3A05356-D887-31ED-BB6A-D05354D9D2CB> /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebKit.framework/PluginProcess.app/Cont ents/MacOS/PluginProcessShim.dylib

0x108862000 - 0x108862fff com.apple.WebKit2 (9600 - 9600.5.17) <B4586BE9-2AF0-3310-949E-883A2E95121E> /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebKit2.framework/Versions/A/WebKit2

0x10886b000 - 0x108b07ffb com.apple.WebKit (9600 - 9600.5.17) <576569F1-A823-3BEE-A1F9-DE6AB7873044> /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit

0x108dde000 - 0x108f11ff4 com.apple.WebKitLegacy (9600 - 9600.5.17) <921E1ABD-95A1-3C6B-A541-9A78725D9942> /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebKitLegacy.framework/Versions/A/WebKi tLegacy

0x10900a000 - 0x1094c3ff3 com.apple.JavaScriptCore (9600 - 9600.5.10) <17EB0403-FAB2-3521-B576-0075B767D961> /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/JavaScriptCore.framework/Versions/A/Jav aScriptCore

0x109634000 - 0x10a4faff5 com.apple.WebCore (9600 - 9600.5.17) <28A0C33A-7E78-3EC8-913A-FE85002A891F> /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebCore.framework/Versions/A/WebCore

Not sure why it does this, but perhaps someone knows the problem...?