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Is it me or are these security updates getting more frequent?

I'd be happier if they'd take the time out to fix Safari from crashing daily.

I honestly can't remember the last time Safari crashed on me or had to be force quit. Maybe you have a bad Safari extension?

Safari rarely if ever crashes on me...sometimes it gets dog slow, but crashing, luckily almost never.

How about FTFF?

Mark, I was just thinking the exact same thing...

Firefox is the only thing that crashes on me in OSX.

"I'd be happier if they'd take the time out to fix Safari from crashing daily."

i tell ya what, safari has been crashing on me lately too, never had this problem in past and permissions hasnt worked!
maybe i should take out inquisitor and piclens lol

looks like I'm running Flip4Mac, real player, shockwave flash, Java & Google update.

any of those known troublemakers?

weird, we just had an update yesterday... now this.. plus it's not showing up via Software Update... I'll just keep checking. I realize it's available from the website.. but old habits are hard to break.

I've only had to force-quit Safari when a screwy website locked me up, and then perhaps once or twice a month (and I'm on Safari all day, every day). Every app screws up now and then, but Safari is better than most. Except for those few sites that refuse to deal with Safari (hello Zillow.com), I have no complaints, and on a broadband connection, no slowdowns, either.

@GmanMac

Safari is crashing all the time for me too. I thought it had to do with some third-party app I installed and then quickly uninstalled a month or so back. I've been having the problems since then.

Anyone else?

I gave up on Safari. I won't use it again until they update. It's all Firefox for me now.

Lots of things may affect Safari because it uses system-level frameworks (ie. WebKit).

You can always get the latest version of Safari from
http://webkit.org/

It'll have the latest fixes, but also, as an in-progress development build, it might introduce other problems. I use it daily. You want to get the NightShift application to keep it updated, as a new build is released nightly.

if safari is crashing on you you might have a corrupted preference file. quit out of safari, search for safari.plist, drag it to the trash, reboot safari. that should fix it. also clear out your cache and empty your history.

works every time.

With Apple/Steve watching my back, who needs virus software?

Thanks Apple!!!

Safari also freezes often for me after visiting webpages for a long period of time. It started after the 10.4.9 update on my original MacBook Core Duo.

@safari crashes

Your advice about deleting safari.plist made all the difference to me!

Thanks
Bo

as soon as i put more ram in my mbook, no more safari crash.

Safari - crashing?

Sorry to hear it, but never here (3 Macs).

I run Inquisition, Saft, SafariPlus, PithHelmet, SafariStand. Also have Cool Iris Previews but never really have it active When I added Piclens everything went to hell. Pic Lens crashed safari, locked up my system, the whole shebang. Got rid of piclens and a lot of troubles went away.

Also ran into a particular website a couple days ago that was killing Safari on every visit. Answers.com made me crash on at least 10 different attempts.

Safari rarely if ever crashes on me...sometimes it gets dog slow, but crashing, luckily almost never.
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Fuck Safari.. it would beachball like crazy, I found a slick theme for Firefox and I've never looked back.

MY GOD IT'S STILL FULL OF HOLES!

Add crashing to the list.

And the Javascript pop-unders are baaaacccck!!!

Oh poor Apple is severly overworked.

Not to mention that in iTunes the Quit iTunes selection has disappeard making have ot use Force Quit just to quit the app.

Something bad is happening @ Apple. Plus the update above, like some other posters have also reported is not showing under Software Update.

Is it me or are these security updates getting more frequent?

Oh poor Apple is severly overworked.

IMO one problem is it's gotten WAAAY to easy to do updates. If an update has issues, you just fix it with a x.1 patch-up the next day....

Apple needs to take a little more time with their updates. Unless one happens to be for extremely critical security issue or something.

These updates should be held to the same standard as hardware, where once it's out it's out, so you'd better get it right the first time.

I just figured out what's going on!

Remember that FAKE corporate email that got sent to Apple Store employees and later given to Engadget quoting a delay in iPhone/Lepoard?

Apple Inc. network has been BREACHED!

Remember when M$ got breached? The hackers messed badly with Windows code before it even was released.

This is what's happening at Cupertino, I just know it.

Something bad is happening @ Apple.

I say it's a form of growing pains.

Apple looks like they're doing a Toyota: i.e. outgrowing their own management and quality-control capabilities, along with picking up the bad habits of their older rivals. Sure it's relatively minor now, but there's so much danger of snowballing.

Apple, nip this in the bud. FAST. Don't let yourself get paralyzed by the Microsoft Syndrome.

The only thing bad is the whiners and nOObs here that can't make a computer work.
God, no wonder the PeeCee trolls come here - it's pathetic.

I have two Macs. The Security Update showed on the iMac G5 and updated, but it still hasn't shown on the PowerBook G4.

@GManMac

>"looks like I'm running Flip4Mac, real player, shockwave flash, Java & Google update"

Real Player is EVIL - do not support this format or company! You have been warned...

Safari never crashes on me - I use Camino

Note from the support article:

"Note: Security Update 2007-005 v1.1 was released to remove a configuration file that prevented the BIND service from automatically starting after applying the security update. The BIND service is not enabled on default configurations, and is mainly used with a Server system. For systems using BIND which applied Security Update 2007-005, manually re-enabling the BIND service will correct the issue. Security Update 2007-005 v1.1 made no changes to the security content of Security Update 2007-005. Systems that have applied Security Update 2007-005 do not need to apply Security Update 2007-005 v1.1."

Thanks dude.

My desktop picture is much snappier now!

Safari sucks-if you are using it you deserve crashes and performance issues.

Use firefox for hours everyday-never crashes.
If firefox is crashing on your system-you have issues with more than firefox.

Well I ditched Real player, zapped plist for Safari and for Quicktime, and updated my other plug ins, also cleared history and cache.
Thanks to all for all the advice.

GmcMan - have you called your mother?? This is probably the main reason you are having Safari crashes. She needs to hear from you!!!

The only suggestion I can offer is try OnyX - latest virigin (pun intended - new beta out) and see ifthat helps. MySafari quite crashing after I called my Mum - so you never know. She told me to use OnyX and quit messing around with guesses.

Sometimes mother's word is all that is needed

MDN = needed

If the computer is sophisticated the user needn't be, and vis-versa.....I NEVER use Safari, I don't have that much time in my life, and I agree that Apple had better watch out or it becomes the big bad guy.....these multi-updates that require the latest OS updates (10.4.9) which report multiple problems in and of themselves......sorry, I need this thing to work, not to work ON it......

Absolutely - do not upgrade to 10.4.9 if it can be avoided. Weird how things can get worse by an upgrade..

Don't run this update if you have PPC. It has wiped out my ability to connect to the internet. My Macbook is fine. Weird, very weird. Extremely annoying.

Yep Hosed my only machine really good, can't boot, can't connect to the internet, can't use wireless, can't use the keyboard, can't use the mouse, can't option or c boot off a cd, can't t boot or s boot or boot myself in the ass.

How I got here I haven't got a clue.

I always use safari, it only crashes when I try to access my uni wifi, and thats just because of a wierd security certificate thing, i just firefox to access the login page, then swithc back to safari.

I used Shiira for a while, but it's got too many bugs. Safari is the best, so much quicker than Firefox - so much better looking too.