[goose]

I'm running into an issue with constant Safari crashes. During my work day, it can crash as often as five times in one minute. It also happens to me at home as well. I'm just browsing sites like Versiontracker, here, Yahoo, Google, etc., will get that spinning ball for a few seconds, the OS locks up and then poof, Safari goes down.

Not sure if it's a memory issues as the machine at work has 256 MB and the one at home has 1 GB. Also, it happens when I'm not overly tasking Safari, maybe just two or three windows open (unless that's pushing it, but I hope it isn't).

When Safari first came out, it was really stable for me, just got caught up when a page happened to have something Java on it. Since its release, it has steadily gone down. Anyone else having issues with Safari these days?

[Randman]

Make sure you have the latest build of Safari. Rebuild permissions. Empty or deactivate the cache. Trash Safari icons. If you have autofill on for others, edit the list down to a reasonable number.

[LarsCA]

I used to have the exact same problem with Safari. The old beta version was stable and good, then poof! everything went wrong.

What finally cleared up much of that (Safari still crashes from time to time, but so does pretty much all my programs) was when I repaired permissions with Disk Utility, threw out the stupid Aladdin internet Cleanup, and reset Safari (be sure you have all your site registration passwords available). I don't know what about it that fixed it, but it fixed it alright.

My only bug with Safari right now is that when there's a link to a download, I can't just click it and the download starts. I have to do Alt+click and chose "download link to disk" which is fine, I can live with that. But when for instance it's a link that takes you to a developer's site where it says "your download will start automatically" it never works. I always have to find some sort of link that I CAN save to disk.

Other than that I like Safari.

[Randman]

Originally posted by LarsCA:
My only bug with Safari right now is that when there's a link to a download, I can't just click it and the download starts. I have to do Alt+click and chose "download link to disk" which is fine, I can live with that. But when for instance it's a link that takes you to a developer's site where it says "your download will start automatically" it never works. I always have to find some sort of link that I CAN save to disk.

That's from the latest security update to plug the hole. It is a bit frustrating. I wish I could set Speed Download 2 to handle it all.