Amazon crashing Safari today. Had to force shut down.

I don't shop online all that much, but went to Amazon today and am having the same problem everyone else is. Complete lock up. Have to shut down. I had just updated Safari after noticing a notification from the app store that a newer version is out. I am using a circa 2009 iMac with 10.9.5 OS. I notice that some people have said to try to avoid the home page. I just have a bookmark for Amazon that takes me to the home page. Does some one have another Amazon page that seems to work?

Any other Amazon page seems to be fine. Simply DON'T use that bookmark any more and do not navigate to the home page until they remove that carousel image changing thing at the top. (Thanks, Stephen Lange.) I thought the same thing about my GPU.

I noticed this problem also with amazon's "main" webpage. It is a "Amazon" problem as all other websites are fine on my MacSafari. I contacted amazon to let them know about the problem and they gave me a streamlined amazon website page to utilize.

You can try this link: www.amazon.com/access

I think I'm noticing a pattern here. It seems to be affecting those of us with old systems. I keep seeing the year 2009 for many of the systems. Could it be something with that year's firmware or GPU that is affected? That could be why it's not being reported by so many people...

Same problem here. Whenever I load amazon.com using safari, my system freezes (I can move the mouse around, but that's it - clicking does nothing). It happens 100% of the time. The only solution is a hard reboot. If I turn off javascript, the problem does not occur.

The problem occurs on a MacBook Pro 17" (early 2009), running Yosemite 10.10.5 (latest version, everything up to date).

I also have a MacBook Air 11" (mid 2011), running 10.8.5 (i.e., not Yosemite), and the problem does NOT occur.

Thanks. Using this address has avoided the issue and still contains information personalized to me.

This is certainly one of the worst instances of being screwed by having older system that I've experienced!

DorieW,

Thank you for posting that link!

Works well, no freezing and seems to load a bit quicker too.

Interestingly enough, the Amazon page main page now loads for me with a low-resolution image at the top, and no javascript or special features. Completely different now. Anyone else seeing this?

I can confirm what Dr.Ake is saying.. it is working fine now! They must have gotten the message!! Thanks! Is it working for anyone else?

Amazon now works fine with Firefox; not so well with Safari. Main page rendering is quite different, with no images, just links in blue down the left side of the page. However, Safari woks fine with MacBookAir and iPad. At least it's useable on my iMac with Firefox.

I just checked a few minutes ago, and now Safari is rendering the Amazon pages correctly. All seems OK for now.

I've just checked the support community on Amazon.co.uk. It seems it's not only Safari - or even just Mac - users. It's affecting all browsers and all types of computer, so it looks like an Amazon problem. However, their tech support response of 'there's nothing to see here, move along people' or 'it's your browser's fault' seems pretty typical for technical support depts of many companies, even when there are so many complaints on their own forum!

Had been following this when it first started as it was happening to me also on the day it was first reported. I also have a 2009 MPB 17' and took it to the genius bar for some diagnostics, but by the time my appointment had come up it was working again, so they were looking at me strange, no one there had any idea what it could so they tested the video card first but everything came up clean. Now the problem has started happening again so I took it right back to the store without an appointment just to see if anyone would take a look but they were jammed so I just showed one person who left who tried to push a new video card or saying its a problem with software and maybe look into restoring the computer. Sorry for the long update but thats whats been going on