10.11.4 Safari freeze

I Really think its SAFARI and too much YOUTUBE has a problem. I have macbook air 2015 goshhh..... Im using CHROME right now and i dont experience any freezez at all....SO FAR.....

SO guys use CHROME for now until apple fixes this thing.

FINGERS CROSSED

Yes. I get crashes as described in this thread and others in Final Cut Pro and Quickime as well. It is not safari specific, but is a deeper system issue. MacBookPro12,1

Does this include background tasks as well?. I mean if Safari is running in the background on activity monitor it can still trigger the crash.

I've only consciously tested that once, and yes - it crashed despite safari being closed. I didn't look at activity monitor during that test to see if there was another safari related process running despite the app being closed.

I closed safari, ran chrome, continued doing some editing in FCP / playing media in QT and it crashed. Everything locked up, force touch stopped responding, only way to get back working was a restart.

I can go long stretches of time with no issue - no discernible way of replicating.

iit's completely randome for me on a late 2015 iMac. I've had it freeze and reboot while sleeping. Chrome does seem to be better and a little more consistent But it is not the solution this is defiently a deeper issue

This might help some people. If you use the internet recovery to reinstall OS X, you may get a version before this problem developed. For most of us, it seems the issue appeared with 10.11.4, so if your Mac originally came with an earlier version, this may be a way to roll back to that. Just don't update it to 10.11.4 if this works for you!

If you use Internet Recovery to reinstall OS X, it installs the version of OS X that originally came with your computer. After installation is finished, use the Mac App Store to install related updates or later versions of OS X that you have previously purchased.

Edmundostudios wrote:

Do any of you get crashes when not using Safari and using Chrome instead? It's been 5 days for me since last freeze. If we all agree on this then it must be a simple driver conflict with safari.

I'm the guy whose daily Safari freezes started as far back as 10.9. I'm now freeze-free for 16 days, since I quit using Safari and started using Firefox.

iMac 10,9 (Late 2009), 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 12GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB

Hi la_manzana,

could you tell me how you rolled back to 10.11.3? I couldn't figure out a way to do it. If I go back to Yosemite and then upgrade to El Capitan, I will be straight on 10.11.4 again, or won't I?

By the way, I have an early 2015 MacBook Air 11" with the i5 1.6 GHz, 8 GB Ram, 256 GB SSD. This problem happened to me several times now over the last few weeks, mostly in Safari (YouTube), but also once in Final Cut Pro X. I completely reinstalled OS X in the meantime and it still happened again.

I have made an time machine backup when 10.11.3 was installed on my system. I just restore this backup and was back on 10.11.3. So I really hope you have an backup.

If you don't have an backup of 10.11.3 there is no official way to install an older version as the actual version that is provided from Apple (at the moment of this post 10.11.4). If you download the standalone installer from the AppStore at the moment you only get 10.11.4 and if you use the installer of the recovery partition it also downloads 10.11.4 .

Maybe you have an friend that downloads the 10.11.3 (15D21) standalone installer when it was still provided by Apple ?

But I don't have this standalone installer either. 😟

I was able to find the 10.11.3 standalone installer and managed to install it, but only after changing the date back to when the signature of the installer was still valid. Nonetheless, thanks for your answer! I hope that 10.11.4 is really responsible for the freezes and that Apple will fix this with 10.11.5.

This is completely getting out of hand. I bought a mac to not have to deal with these problems... If I wanted to partition, boot software and mess around with my computer... i would have just switched to Linux. Apple needs to fix this issue so we can get back to actually using our computers without worrying when it crashes next. I appreciate that people are trying to find ways to fixing this (using chrome, downgrading) but these are compensations that are not justified for a computer that cost me $1600 CAD..

This has also been happening to my macbook pro recently! I thought I was the only one experiencing this problem. I bought my macbook pro retina 13 inch last summer and had no problems until recently. This first happened while watching youtube videos my whole screen and mouse would freeze forcing me to force reboot. I thought it was only youtube but this also happened while I was on another site. Reading other post it may be safari problems since the only browser I use is safari. Has anyone been able to get a solution to this problem??

I suspect there must now be thousands of us.

BUT MANY FOLK HERE SAY THAT APPLE NEVER LOOK AT THEIR FORUMS SO PLEASE SEND APPLE FEEDBACK

If you haven't already ... please file a simple report here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

someone has tried if the 10.11.5 beta 4 freeze? I'm very bored that apple doesn't fix this issue

It's been 2 months and apple has not fix this problem. This happens randomly when using my imac. I notice it happens more often when listening to itunes with the visualizer on fullscreen. I read the freeze still happens in the 10.11.15 beta.