All my browsers crash constantly! Need help to keep my sanity

WZZZ wrote:

Also, you must know this, so maybe this isn't what you meant, but if you put the mouse pointer up near the URL, then "Show Details" appears. Click on that and you get the IPs and other information, which is what's appearing in my screenshots. It must depend on location for what connections it makes.

Not exactly what I meant.

Most of the time I'm given an LS alert that tells me what app/process is trying to connect over what port to a URL. But about once a month, out of the blue it will suddenly start asking about individual IP addresses instead of URL's, even for apps that have previously been approved. For most sites it doesn't make a lot of difference as there is only one IP address associated with a URL, but some (e.g. google.com) have several IP addresses associated with the domain. I haven't figured out what causes LS to switch to that mode and it goes away as soon as I reboot.

I'm not sure exactly why I have a fifth connection rule. Perhaps because I've run and submitted a System Snapshot in the past.

Weird, never had that happen.

Only Chrome?

And "Little Snitch" is gone? If you're not going to remove it, please refer to its developer for support.

Please start up in Recovery mode. In the OS X Utilities screen, select Get Help Online. A clean copy of Safari will launch. No plugins, such as Flash, will be available. While in Recovery, you'll have no access to your saved bookmarks or passwords, so make a note of those before you begin, if they're needed for the test.

Test. After testing, restart as usual and post the results.

It will almost always lock up if put to to sleep (if I hadn't mentioned that before)

You hadn't. Does it also fail to wake from sleep while running in safe mode (not Recovery mode)?

You wrote in your original message:

I've tried reinstalling the browsers, different OS installs, time machine restores from when things were working, and multiple system wipes and starting from scratch..... SAME PROBLEM

Does that mean that you reproduced all these problems, including the wake failure, after erasing the startup volume and reinstalling OS X, without installing any other software or restoring any data from a backup?

Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support