10.11.4 Safari freeze

I updated from 10.11.3 directly to 10.11.5 two or three weeks ago and did not have a single freeze since then. Before I downgraded from 10.11.4 to 10.11.3 I had at least one or two freezes per week. Maybe it works for me because I skipped 10.11.4?

I upgraded to 10.11.5 back on 5/18/16.

I continue to experience freezes on my MBP Late 2011.

I'm going to downgrade to either 10.11.3 or 10.10.5 tomorrow at the Genius Bar.

Can't wait anymore

The problem seems fixed in 10.11.6

Will report if any other freeze occurs.

Has anyone experienced the freezing on Safari 10 while running El Capitan? I'm still running El Capitan and have upgraded Safari to v.10, but am hesitant to launch Safari to try it.

For me, this very problem seems to have started with 10.11.6. The freeze always happens when playing video on the web. It seems related to Flash. I have tried re-installing Flash etc. It also is not unique to Safari but happens in Firefox and Chrome as well.

Is anyone else having this issue with 10.11.6?

I've been plagued with this problem for many months. I never found a pattern as to when the problem occurs; it was not just when viewing videos as I even had it occur surfing these pages looking for a solution to the problem.

I finally gave up on Apple fixing and switched to Chrome a month or so back. Since then I have not had any issue.

Am hoping Sierra will wipe the slate clean and avoid the issue.

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So Apple want to phase out Safari, since this problem have existed for two years now and still not fixed, or?

I dont get it!

Its a software issue related to Safari and Flash, are we gonna wait a decade for a solution?

10.11.6, still not sign of any improvements.

It happens randomly, but often after longer inactivity, like overnight.

The moment i click on any app or command, the spinning wheel appears, and all ongoing animations are freezing, force power down is only way out.

Im getting really tired of this!

imac mid 2011

3,1 i5

Radeon 6970

32GB ram

All software with latest vers

I have had this problem for months now. I'm on an imac 27 late 2011 running the latest OS and Safari. The problem is not reproducible, occurs randomly and requires a hard reboot. The mouse pointer moves on the screen, but nothing responds to pointer movement nor keyboard input. I really hate to switch to chrome, but it appears after many months of this known problem Apple is not going to fix Safari.

This is starting to get ridiculuous Apple, you got reports about this issue for years now, FIX IT!

So waiting for this to be fixed. Happens all of the time. I can ssh into the machine and it still is working. The webkit process is "stuck" initially. System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.Web Kit.WebContent.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

Can't be killed. I can initiate a remote shutdown, but it logs me off and then hangs where I have to force a hard reboot.

Happens in Safari, usually when scrolling on a web page. Older computer, so it may be slow to get the webpage loaded and it is getting into some kind of race condition.

There is good news: I can report that this page looks great in Chrome, and no more lock-ups!

The same issue with Safari starting happening to me a couple of weeks ago. It is an interesting kind of lock-up; I have not seen anything quite like in 35 years of computer use: when this happens, the mouse pointer moves on the screen just great, but nothing responds to pointer movement or keyboard input and your only choice is a hard reboot. I have some evidence that other background programs continue to run fine. But with a frozen screen (other than mouse moving) and no way to use a keyboard or clicks the device is useless and you have to reboot.

I have been using Chrome for about a week and it has been working great; and you don't really give anything up re functionality or integration with the Apple-world.

Hows that handoff, tabs and bookmarks features between other devices working out for you now?

Same thing in macOS 10.12.2. Glad I spent 3,000$ for a pice of crap that freeze!