Safari keeps crashing/freezing after install of El Capitan

At the risk of jinxing myself, I wanted to report that I haven't seen any Safari/YouTube lock-ups in at least 2 weeks. I am running the update for Safari Technology Preview that was released a few weeks ago, but I am also still on 10.11.4 (going to update now due to security updates). I did opt to "Remove all website data" (Under Privacy in STP) just after the last crash. The other change I made is switching to a single display. I very much doubt that is related to the issue.

There's been radio silence on this thread for a few weeks. I'm curious to find out if others have been experiencing more stability. @Palegreenghosts?

@Adam F

I'm still on 10.11.3 due to a less than ideal backup system in place and some software compatibility. A new backup drive is on its way this week and I think all software bugs ironed out for 10.11.5 so I'll update in the next week or two and try STP.

I'm not the best person to thoroughly test this as I can't risk using Safari when I'm working most of the day on projects that pay my way The breaks I've been getting from work have been better spent away from any computer screen. So I've been using Chrome, reluctantly, for months now to avoid the freezes. I've desperately wanted to switch back to Safari for feature harmony with iOS, battery performance and an overall preference for using it.

That all said, I'll definitely clear some time to test it. Obviously I'm interested in progressing any collective diagnostics on the issue. Thanks for the feedback on your own experiences from the past few weeks.

I Can confirm that deleting website data and clear cache helped me. Havent had a freze in about 10-14 days.

10.11.5 after one week: no freezing so far.

I doubt that it's Safari.
Even when just Mail, Adobe Premiere or After Effects is open it crashes... 😟

it just crashed at exactly 1:10 AM so it's not the heat I guess.

I'm running 10.11.5

I called Apple too about this and apparently it's known now, but it's still being investigated where these freezes & rebootings come from.

By the way, can someone explain what those 'Combo updates' are?

Since I've been searching forums for solutions, I see all the updates have these 'Combo Updates'. What is this?

Thanks,

Nick

Mid 2014 rMBP running latest 10.11.5 here. Just had the system freeze after closing a youtube video (on the youtube website). Waited 5min and it was still frozen so had to force shutdown. Happens sporadically but has been an issue for a year now. Only happens in Safari and only with YouTube.

By the way, can someone explain what those 'Combo updates' are?

Since I've been searching forums for solutions, I see all the updates have these 'Combo Updates'. What is this?

The Combo Update contains everything necessary to update to 10.11.5 (in the current example) from any of the previous 10.11.* versions, all the way since the original 10.11.

Thank you!
I've installed the combo update, maybe this fixes my issue.

Tried almost everything already.

Nick

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Mid 2014 rMBP running latest 10.11.5 here. Just had the system freeze after closing a youtube video (on the youtube website). Waited 5min and it was still frozen so had to force shutdown. Happens sporadically but has been an issue for a year now. Only happens in Safari and only with YouTube.

Thanks, that's what I was afraid of. That's my situation exactly (although I recently removed FlashPlayer to see if that would help, but haven't watched much youtube since doing that). I still think it's somehow related to a bug in the Intel GPU. Maybe Apple can find a SW workaround.

Nope, never mind after installing the combo update it just froze and rebooted TWICE in the last 5 minutes :/

I bought this iMac in November 2015 and I have this major issue since April...

Really getting annoyed by this and all I can say is... $3,590 well spent 😢

Is there any news of a OS X 10.11.6 coming? Or do we have to wait for OS X 10.12 this fall and hope the issue is fixed?

Considering how long this has been a problem, I wouldn't hold my breath for 10.11.6 or even 10.12. I'd give better than 50% odds you'll own a new computer before you see this fixed. Especially if, as I believe, it's related to Intel GPU hardware.

I'm baffled by those freezes reading the forum. On my MBP 2009 with only 4GB RAM, I installed El Capitan from Mountain Lion. Consequently, it was not a clean install. Except being frustruated by slow browsing (cleared after resetting SMC), I never had a single freezing or any similar misshaps although I have lots of apps including Adobe CS4 Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign...). Except Adobe Flash, I didn't add any extentions.

My Internet surfing is now faster after 10.11.5 update.

I am a LONG-TIME Apple supporter and I fail to understand why Apple is so tone deaf on some of these long-term issues. Obviously, the user experience is not really an Apple priority. If it were, at some point, these on-going issues would be fixed. Safari NEVER seems to 'get fixed.'

I've tried uninstalling my temporary solution for the problem ("click to plugin") as I hoped for 10.11.5 to fixed the problem. Unfortunately today after two days of usage I had another freeze, so sadly 10.11.5 still haven't fixed the original problem.

Going back to http://hoyois.github.io/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/ which I really recommend as it is a good workaround and I had not a single freeze while using it with safari.