Anyone else have problems with DU crashing browsers on a Mac?

[Der Blaue Engel]

I've tried both Firefox and Safari, and keep having multiple crashes. I thought it was just random, but I realized tonight that it's always when I'm on DU.

What's up with that? :shrug:

[petronius]

1. Huh? I thought macs never crashed

That's what I've been told, anyway... ;)

I've had problems with DU crashing an older version of IE - the best I could figure is that it had to do with animations that people had in their sigs, since it would happen only in certain threads...

[Awsi Dooger]

6. A browser will occasionally quit on a Mac

The system itself never crashes, at least the current OS X versions of Panther and Tiger. I multi task all day and can't remember the last time I got a freeze or crash. Late in OS 9's life it used to happen frequently.

[billyskank]

21. They do, they just do it in a cool way

probably. ;)

[Omphaloskepsis]

23. they do...

[AlCzervik]

2. no only IE crashed on me, i switched to Safari and have been crash free since.

[Awsi Dooger]

3. Those are the two browsers I use on my Macs

Haven't had any problems. I guess the standard advice would be to clear the caches of those browsers. With Safari you can go a step further and Reset it, although that gets rid of some useful things like passwords and auto filled text. The advantage of Firefox is the Restore Session option, after you experience a crash, taking you back to exactly where you were.

On a different site I've had recent problems on Firefox, threads with large amount of graphics that are slow to load. But nothing of note on DU.

[KitchenWitch]

4. *Insert snarky 'get a pc and run linux' comment here*

Sorry, I don't have a mac. (I want one though!)

:hi:

[MonkeyFunk]

5. Buy a PC....

:rofl:


I always wanted to say that.

[KitchenWitch]

8. Look up at my post!

:rofl:

[REP]

7. What Version of OS X and What Version of Safari?

I'm using Safari 2.0.3 and OS X 10.4.6 and I get occasional errors from DU's server, but no crashes.

[Der Blaue Engel]

10. OS 10.4.9 and Safari 2.0.4

But I just realized that I had Google Earth up in the background and it's probably been open for days...that could have something to do with it. I tend to have a thousand things open at once and never close anything.

[REP]

11. That Could Be It!

I usually have a million windows open (but not running anything like Google Earth, ah dialup). Safari does tend to freak out if it's left running in background for days (same versions on another computer locks up).

[AlCzervik]

12. thats probably it, whenever i use google earth it really slows things up.

[Der Blaue Engel]

13. When I went to close a few windows down, I discovered Photobooth was open too

That thing always causes havoc.

There's apparently some clusterf*ck trifecta that occurs when I have Firefox, DU, and Photobooth open. I must try to remember this.

[KitchenWitch]

14. I am so stealing "clusterfuck trifecta"

I already use the word clusterfuck!

:rofl:

[Der Blaue Engel]

24. Use it with my compliments

:D

[MilesColtrane]

16. By crash do you mean quit?

Or did you just get the eternal beachball?

I don't have my ram maxed out, so sometimes if I've got Safari running along side some big 'uns (Photoshop, iTunes, Digital Performer) it will hang up.

This can almost always be remedied by going to the Finder and force quitting one or more of the applications running.

[Pierre.Suave]

9. Thats odd

I use a mac, Macbook Pro running OSX 10.4.9 and I use Camino as my main browser and have never had a crash or an error while surfing on DU.

nor have I had a crash while using safari.

What mac do you have and what OS are you using?

www.caminobrowser.org

[Kutjara]

18. I'm using the same setup with the same result.

Camino on my MBP is stable in ways IE on my Windows machines or Firefox on anything can only dream of being.

[Mr. Blonde]

15. Only web site i have a lot of trouble

with crashing is myspace.

[RebelOne]

17. I use a Mac at the office and the only crashes I have had

are with IE. I use Safari now with no problems.

[SarahB]

19. Nope.

My husband and I are both logged into DU on my Mac. I'm on Firefox and he's on Safari and neither of us have problems. The Safari's a little slower, but he usually uses his PC upstairs anyway. Sorry dude.

[Pierre.Suave]

20. IF AND ONLY IF

you have OSX 10.4, click this link and download this wonderful automator action that will run the built in maintenance scripts that will help keep your system running as efficiently as possible.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/maintenance.html

It may fix your problem. If it doesnt, come back here and let me know.

[Omphaloskepsis]

22. Does the browser quit... And you have to restart..?

Or are you thinking the constant fuck-ups DU has been giving everyone are crashes? A white page with archaic error messages... That is DU having problems. Not your computer. Everyone has been having that happen for a week or so.


If the browser is actually quiting please post the contents of Applications/Utilities/Console... I will take a look.

[Der Blaue Engel]

26. Yeah, the browser just quits periodically when I click on a DU link

Here's what the Console says:

Mac OS X Version 10.4.9 (Build 8P2137)
2007-05-17 22:44:48 -0700
2007-05-17 22:44:51.237 SystemUIServer<146> lang is:en
2007-05-17 22:44:54.029 SoftwareUpdateCheck<184> Checking for updates
/XRefStm encountered but not yet supported.
May 18 00:42:40 Darkness-I mDNSResponder: Repeated transitions for interface en1 (192.168.1.104); delaying packets by 5 seconds
2007-05-18 11:31:10.660 Photo Booth<309> i950 & friends detected
2007-05-18 11:31:10.661 Photo Booth<309> force8BitInternalBuffer YES

My suspicion is that Photo Booth was the problem. Whenever I leave it open too long, things wig out.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. No problems with my Mac on DU, with either Safari or Firefox.

Firefox works better in general, I think; every now and then Safari would hang up on me, so I switched. But it didn't seem to have anything to do with DU.

[BlueIris]

27. Every once in a while.

But I thought it was more my really ancient copy of IE that was responsible.