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Safari does not respond

Mark — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:45:03 +0000

This is why I keep Activity Monitor open all the time. Safari does not respond and needs a Force Quit.

This is exactly the same as using Ctrl-Alt-Del on a Windows machine and Ending a process – just needed to say that.. And it happens at the moment at least 3 times every single day. If this were a Windows machine I run checks on it – but you don’t need those on Macs do you? I’ve run Onyx – no improvement. I’ve reset it many times – no improvement. Maybe it’s system rot – so that’s install the OS just to get a stable browser produced by the same company that created the browser? 3 crashes a day is terrible and it affects other process somehow – if not then why after this do I have to close other apps to stop the drive grinding? Less than 6 months and an OS reinstall. Fun.

Leopard and the daily reboot

Mark — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:07:41 +0000

Open apps: Firefox 3, Safari, Camino, Adium, Smultron, Twitteriffic, Marsedit, Activity Monitor (this always open), Evernote, Shovebox, Skitch, GetDropbox. There may be others, there may be less. It is NOT Spotlight – that is fully off.
Symptom: If I click a dock icon it opens Finder. If I click a link it opens in a new window. The HD grinds. The processor goes to 100% and I end up pressing the power button.
Happens: Daily just about.
Annoyance factor: off the freaking scale. Don’t these thing “Just work”?

So, given the above apps are established (and this happened in FF2) what is the problem? What did I do to break things? It can’t be the machine right?

The only possible thing I do differently to possibly someone else is that I open and close dozens and dozens of tabs in a relatively short space of time. It’s not for fun, it’s work and i’ll be damned if I need to change my work pattern simply because a computer cannot keep up. I lose a stack of work every damn time this happens.
All I can actually do is rearrange open apps so I can constantly see the Ctrl-Alt-Del equivalent the Activity Monitor and see what locks up.

If this was a PC some Mac owners would be having a go at Microsoft……

crash mac crash

Mark — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:05:13 +0000

These have crashed several times in the last 3 days: Firefox (the beta), Thunderbird, X-chat, Camino, Safari, Adium.
Recently installed programs: None.
Recently installed updates: Couldn’t possibly be them.
I have no idea why but it is extremely irritating that anything crashes more than once, but having the whole system lock up to the point that the power has to be removed is getting stupid. And in case someone says what OS? It’s Leopard.