10.11.4 Safari freeze

I don't think reinstalling 10.11.4 will fix it, but let us know. Sure would be nice, if, say, someone like APPLE would acknowledge this issue and try to fix it. Leaving users to randomly experiment on their own is something I associate with Windows, not the Mac.

Here's what I think I know about this, just to put it all in one place:

1. It doesn't matter if you've installed 10.11.4 via the updater or the combo updater. People who've done each of those report the same type of crash.

2. The crashes I've seen have been in Safari, and once in Photos.

3. It isn't clear if the Safari Technology Preview (1 or 2) solves this.

4. The crashes are mostly (perhaps exclusively) reported on Macs with Intel Iris Graphics. BTW, if anyone has this crash who does NOT use Intel Iris Graphics, report that, because that would be very important information.

5. Without running afoul of the "you can't talk about beta software", let me say that there is no release of OS X subsequent to 10.11.3 that fixes this problem.

6. For me at least, all this started when I installed 10.11.4 via the combo updater.

7. If you get really desperate, see my post earlier in this thread about how to roll back to 10.11.3 and keep all your user files in their current stat.

To consolidate information, if anyone has anything to add to the above list, I'd suggest replying to this post, keeping the list and appending more bits of information. Hopefully Apple will eventually pay some attention to this.

i did have the issue that the rest of you were having but reinstalling OS X seems to have fixed it no crash in the last week. Maybe it's caused by something else but worth a shot.

I did a clean install of 10.11.4, installed Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Garageband and Spotify.

Freeze the next day.

Spotify gives me kernel panics and crashes all the time it's know to be terrible on OSX.

Nothing works.

I already made a clean install and 10.11.4 combo. Nothing else done, not even changing the wallpaper. The system was totally at default settings, no software installed, nothing added, nothing removed. No flash, no bettertouchtools, no f.Lux, nothing but only the 10.11.4 combo, and It crashes with Safari on youtube few hours later.

It also crashed with The safari tech preview, Chrome, and even Firefox but only 2 times in 3 weeks.

It's not browser related, maybe graphics or something else. Apple do not code any third party driver like graphic's, so they have to wait for Intel or AMD for a fix in these cases.

Would it be crazy to suggest that all of our macs have a hardware problem? Are we sure it's tied to 10.11.4? Afterall I'm pretty sure that if we took our macs to a Genius Bar and said I clean installed everything, started from scratch, and even before restoring my files the freeze still happened, they'd replace the mac.

I was in Genius Bar 1 week ago. No problems with hardware, no problems with anything, but OH!, freezing again and again using Safari since I installed 10.11.4 OS X . Never happens before with other updates.

But the thing is, is this happening to every Macbook Pro owner on 10.11.4? I'd imagine no. So why just us? That's why I am suggesting we all have something hardware related messed up - maybe it can't be caught in diagnostic testing, but it could still be there? I dunno, just speculating here

It is tied to 10.11.4 update. I cloned back my system to 10.11.3 using SuperDuper! and no freezing problems.

"Geniuses" won't do anything since they know that Apple will fix the problem, but not even the 10.11.5 final, so 3 months.

I have a macbook air 13' (early 2015) and I know other people with MCA with this problem.

I gotcha. Ok then, guess this will just be an incredibly frustrating waiting game then... Thanks for the info

Really 3 months??? My god... Then... someone know how can I reinstall 10.11.3 without Time Machine?

IOS had problems too with 9.3 update with hypertext links.Fixed 3 days later 🙂

But it is IOS, and iPhones are best sellers than all macs models together ^^

Seems like OSX is not really their priority

If your Macbook Air has the problem, does it show Intel Iris Graphics when you do about this Mac? We're looking for a common denominator here, and that might be it. Does anyone know the graphics on MBA? I don't.

Sure. IF you have the 10.11.0 full installer. You can install that, then use the 10.11.3 combo updater on the Apple pages to get back to 10.11.3,

Download OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 Combo Update

BUT.....

fscking Apple has deleted the 10.11.0 installer. If you go looking for it via, uh, unofficial channels, you can find the 10.11.0 full installer, but somehow Apple detects that you got it "somewhere else". If I could get/find/borrow/beg/steal the 10.11.0 installer, I'd roll back to 10.11.3 today.

The rollback to 10.11.3 can be done, I think, with time machine, and preserve your current user files. See a post of mine earlier in this thread. However, I haven't done this (yet) and I don't know anyone who has.