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.

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……