10.11.4 Safari freeze

God, I'm glad I found you guys.

I was suffering this problem for more than a month now. Whenever I checked the Console after every reboot, there were no explicit issues.

I had a feeling that I started to suffer these freezes after 10.11.4, then I waited for a quick update since I thought that a lot of people would be impacted. The update never came, which made me believe that I could be the only one.

So I took my macbook for repair, but the guys couldn't reproduce the freezes. I got my macbook back and boom, frozen once again.

I decided to format my macbook as a last resource last night. Now I'm clearly suffering the issue when trying to watch videos, along with the clear message in the console mentioning that the video decoder is stuck.

The point is that now the freezing circumstances are clear after formatting my macbook - this enabled me to find this thread. Probably the fact that I had VLC player before formatting was masking the diagnose somehow.

Nevertheless, I'm really upset with all this. I thought my macbook was defective and I was annoyed that I could not diagnose anything, neither the repair guys.

Happening to me as well

with Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015, 16GB Ram using

10.11.4..

its super frustrating as i'm writing emails and other things and losing work.

Apple-can you acknowledge problem please?

thanks.

I have iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010) i3. Same problem random freezes, I had to hard reset,

I had this problem daily when installed 10.11.4 about one and half months ago. It always seemed to be be with Safari when visiting web pages (often British online soccer) with video

However, I haven't had the problem for nearly 2 weeks now when I removed two USB cables usually attached to my iMac usb ports.

So maybe I'm clutching at straws but it's worth checking what cables you have attacked to your iMac ports.

The two usb cables attached were;

1. Usb to apple iPhone 4 connector cable (standard one I received from Apple with my iPhone 4)

2. A usb cable to a bank card reader e.g. on the right hand side in the picture below (provided by my bank with an accompanying card reader driver app)

I have a Mac Pro 5,1 12 Core with Nvidia GTX 680 display card, also having this problem

Please enter the user library > preferences > remove com.apple.safari.plist in trash .

second step would be restart > empty the trash .

Looks like 10.11.5 is out. Shows up in software update for me and is not labeled beta. List of changes:

About the security content of OS X El Capitan v10.11.5 and Security Update 2016-003 - Apple Support

yes os x 10.11.5 is out..but i am really anxious about installing it..I am hoping this problem was solved, my mac crashed 3 times in 2 days 😟

has anybody installed 10.11.5 and had the same crash again please?

Been using for about an hour no crash yet. You might as well install it can't be worse than .4

did the new OS helped? the 10.11.5? thanks! my MBA is now with the service center. i got it like 20days ago and it freezes everytime i use safari 😟

how was the new update? my MBA is at the service center now. they'll check the software. I hope they fix if, just got the unit for 20 days 😟

So far iTunes froze and restarted when watching a movie. I'm still testing my computer with this update.

I updated to 10.11.5 a few hours ago. Nothing yet, but my crashes weren't that frequent.

Are there any updates from who is using the 10.11.5 please?

thanks 🙂

It looks already fixed for me. You should have a look at the macrumours thread because there're more people discussing.

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-pro-2015-with-osx-el-capitan-10-11-4 -system-wide-freeze.1963711/

someone else with freezes after update to 10.11.5?