[OAW]

Just as the title says. I installed the 8-14 Security Update and rebooted. Now it seems that every time I try to enter text in a field Safari crashes. I don't know if it's due to the recent update or not because it has done this sporadically before. Anyone have any idea what's going on?

OAW

BTW: I'm posting this from OW 4.5 since Safari won't let me enter text. Since it uses WebCore, it seems that the problem isn't at that level.

[TC]

Originally posted by OAW:
Just as the title says. I installed the 8-14 Security Update and rebooted. Now it seems that every time I try to enter text in a field Safari crashes. I don't know if it's due to the recent update or not because it has done this sporadically before. Anyone have any idea what's going on?

OAW

BTW: I'm posting this from OW 4.5 since Safari won't let me enter text. Since it uses WebCore, it seems that the problem isn't at that level.

I was getting this problem and it seemed to be down to the auto completion file being corrupt.

Try moving/deleting the file Form Values in ~/Library/Safari. I think that's what fixed it for me.

[OAW]

Originally posted by TC:
I was getting this problem and it seemed to be down to the auto completion file being corrupt.

Try moving/deleting the file Form Values in ~/Library/Safari. I think that's what fixed it for me.

Tried moving the file you mentioned to the desktop and retrying ... but unfortunately that didn't seem to work. The problem seems to be Single Line Text fields only. Multi-line fields like the ones used to post here seem to work. Strange ....

OAW

[OAW]

Did a little more troubleshooting and found that turning off the AutoFill Web Forms: Other Forms preference caused the crashes to stop. Removing the ~/Library/Safari/Form Values file mentioned in the previous post did not cause the crashes to stop. Just having the preference turned on causes the crashes even with no stored form values at all.

This is distressing because AutoFill is a great feature of Safari. It was working just fine until I installed the 8-14 Security Update.

OAW

Edit: Even tried trashing the preferences and the Form Values file and relaunching Safari. Still have the same problem. Now it appears that turning on Auto Fill for "Other Forms" may not be the culprit. Even with the preference turned off, I am still getting the crashes. Logging out, logging back in and relaunching Safari seems to help for a while ... but eventually the crashes start up again when entering text in a single line text field. Anyone else have this problem
?

[Mallrat]

I was just about to post this topic... I'm using IE, because just recently Safari started crashing... not to mention my computer was about to kil itself... and I wonder if the Security Update was to blame too...

Now everything seems to work fine excpet Safari which crashes even now and then... it's like if I'm at a website for too long, it crashes... I can get to the main page... but sometimes when I try to dig deeper, it crashes.

I tried re-instaling it, but the problem was I couldn't delete all the files connected with it.

What's the deal?

[OAW]

I ended up doing a complete reinstall of Safari 1.0 and that "appears" to have corrected the problem. We'll see how long it holds up. The first thing I did was trash everything Safari related on my HD except for the files needed to sync the bookmarks. You especially have to get rid of the /Library/Receipts/safari.pkg file otherwise the installer won't work. Another strange thing is that even when I got rid of this file, the 1.0 "installer" that I downloaded from Apple seems to only want to update. It went through the "installation" and optimization process ... but when it was completed there was no Safari.app file to be found in the Applications folder. I then reinstalled the last beta version I had laying around (good thing I still had it!) and fired up the 1.0 "installer" again. This time it worked and updated Safari to 1.0 v. 85.

So I basically have a fresh copy of everything except for my ~/Library/Safari/bookmarks.plist file which I saved off to the side before reinstalling. Hopefully it will continue to behave itself.

OAW