OS X 10.11.4 freezing and/or crashing while using Safari

Thanks for clarifying - I'm glad someone else can't mark my problem as solved!

It also froze today with the beta, actually.

Talking about betas while they are not public is probably not allowed.

Btw, it doesn't change anything for the moment.

Here, too.

Tried Youtube in fullscreen mode... freeze.

Same system:

Mac mini (Late 2012)

Mac OS X 10.11.4

Safari 9.1 (11601.5.17.1)

same issue. Followed all recommendations to no avail. Created new user and same problem appeared there. I also have some evidence of a similar problem with Firefox or Chrome.

In my case everything is frozen but the mouse cursor remains mobile. And even though it appears that the mouse does nothing, I can click on an active app on the Dock, save the documents with Command-S and quit the app with Command-Q. You see nothing on screen, but when you restart the computer, you notice that the document has been saved and the app does not restart. This has saved my life, while we wait for a solution.

Another 'me too' to this thread. Very similar to broozar's situation (3 complete freezes with reboots required in a week). MacBook Pro, Early 2015, 10.11.4. Complete freezing: can't use mouse or trackpad, can't save/quit apps. I too use my Macbook for work, and though I save often I am frankly a little frightened of losing something important. I also use Chrome as my primary browser (last freeze/reboot happened with Safari unopened). The last freeze also happened when trying to load Twitter's website. Not sure if it was because there was a lot of graphic/video content there. But otherwise, have not been able to recreate the problem with any specific causes.

Unfortunately, Apple doesn't seem to care about that freezing problem.

It won't be solved till the release of 10.11.5, so 2 or 3 months.

What if won't be fixed in 10.11.5 too (actually in latest beta this issue still exist) ? What if nobody hears us at all ? 😕

One of the complications of this problems is that, as you say, it's hard to reproduce. That's why I'm putting off taking my machine to the Genius Bar - if they can't figure out the issue while you're there, they'll want to keep the machine until they can reproduce the problem. I use my Mac all day every day, and certainly can't go without it for 3 days (or however long it takes). And even though I back up frequently, I am insecure about losing things that I might need to dig up for clients. I wish someone from Apple would acknowledge the problem so at least the "Geniuses" would have some kind of awareness of where to look.

Is not only on El Capitan, I'm running Yosemite 10.10.5 and I noticed that, since the last Security update, both Safari 9.1 as well as iTunes 12.3.3 often lead the system to freeze.

I Cannot begin to tell you how annoyed and angry I am with all these problems.

Same problem here. This is the tip of the iceberg. I've gone from mavericks having problems, to Yosemite having problems, now el Capitan problems.

ALl all in the space of a few days!!

IVe ice reinstalled the system about 5 times in the last few days, formatted my SSD at least 3 times, done all the resetting of pram, smc, all that nonsense, it's just a constant struggle with apple products these days.

SO I finally go to El Capitan, thinking it's been out for so long now surely it's stable - wrong.

MY problem now is -

as soon as I open safari, it quits itself after about 4 seconds. Then the spinning wheel pops up. ive restarted, ran disk utility, reset pram and smc, -

latest update now is this - I restarted and now it wants to install the OS again. I cant even get back to the Desktop os!!!

My solution to be honest for me anyway is to go back to Mavericks. I can't trust El crapitan.

System -

macbook pro late 2011

10.11.4

16gb ram

500gb SSD

LondonL --

Have you checked to see if your Flash is current? It's a lower version than mine.