Safari oddities

the grimacethe grimace
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
So I downloaded Mozilla today, nice app, but I'd rather be using Safari. However, this isn't possible, because it's acting up on me. First, a couple of specs -



iMac DV 400

320MB

OS X 10.2.6



So, it was working fine earlier. Then I ran into some problems with our new all-in-one, an HP PSC 2110, which I thought required an un/re-install. It probably didn't, but to be safe I tried to go to the HP website to get the latest driver/software. And thus it began. My homepage, Yahoo, wouldn't load. When I tried to get it to stop loading, it wouldn't. That is to say, the 'Stop loading page' widget didn't seem to register the mouse-down event. Then Safari crashed. Hmm. Try it again. Same. Ok, enough of this. Launch Camino, off to Apples' website, download Safari, trash ALL prefs and refs to it, and re-install. The same result.



So I gave up. Here's a couple of other bits o' info -

Pages load slowly or not at all

To stop loading a page I must click on the widget twice; however, this behaviour is sporadic. Some pages stop, some stop then start loading again. Inevitably Safari crashes.

Camino seems less stable as well.

Here's the real clincher - this behaviour only appears on my account, not my wifes, either of my kids, or the 'guest' account.



Um, help?



(tig)

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    Applications | Utilities | Disk Utility

    run DU

    click volume icon of your drive

    select "First Aid" tab

    click "Repair Permissions"



    restart may be required to notice fixes



    may help
  • Reply 2 of 5
    the grimacethe grimace Posts: 71member
    I already did that. Sorry, forgot to mention it.



    (tig)
  • Reply 3 of 5
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Try deleting ~/Library/Caches as well and see if there is any effect. Follow with a restart.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    the grimacethe grimace Posts: 71member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Brad

    Try deleting ~/Library/Caches as well and see if there is any effect. Follow with a restart.



    I did delete ~/Library/Caches/Safari, but not all of them. Guess I'll try that, too.



    (tig)
  • Reply 5 of 5
    the grimacethe grimace Posts: 71member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by The Grimace

    So I downloaded Mozilla today, nice app, but I'd rather be using Safari. However, this isn't possible, because it's acting up on me. First, a couple of specs -



    iMac DV 400

    320MB

    OS X 10.2.6



    So, it was working fine earlier. Then I ran into some problems with our new all-in-one, an HP PSC 2110, which I thought required an un/re-install. It probably didn't, but to be safe I tried to go to the HP website to get the latest driver/software. And thus it began. My homepage, Yahoo, wouldn't load. When I tried to get it to stop loading, it wouldn't. That is to say, the 'Stop loading page' widget didn't seem to register the mouse-down event. Then Safari crashed. Hmm. Try it again. Same. Ok, enough of this. Launch Camino, off to Apples' website, download Safari, trash ALL prefs and refs to it, and re-install. The same result.



    So I gave up. Here's a couple of other bits o' info -

    Pages load slowly or not at all

    To stop loading a page I must click on the widget twice; however, this behaviour is sporadic. Some pages stop, some stop then start loading again. Inevitably Safari crashes.

    Camino seems less stable as well.

    Here's the real clincher - this behaviour only appears on my account, not my wifes, either of my kids, or the 'guest' account.



    Um, help?



    (tig)



    Addendum - I launched Safari via Terminal, and I got the following messages:



    2003-09-26 14:04:09.718 Safari[507] Failed to set font ("CGS Screen-Times-Roman 16.00 pt. S [] (0x015bf990) fobj=0x015bfaf0, spc=12.00") ATSUStyle 0x15BFBB0

    2003-09-26 14:04:10.026 Safari[507] *** NSTimer ignoring exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException' (reason 'Failed to set font ("CGS Screen-Times-Roman 16.00 pt. S [] (0x015bf990) fobj=0x015bfaf0, spc=12.00") ATSUStyle 0x151E9C0') that raised during posting of timer with target 957600 and selector '_timedLayout:'

    2003-09-26 14:04:10.670 Safari[507] *** NSTimer ignoring exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException' (reason 'Failed to set font ("CGS Screen-Times-Roman 16.00 pt. S [] (0x015bf990) fobj=0x015bfaf0, spc=12.00") ATSUStyle 0x15C7CD0') that raised during posting of timer with target 15ac9c0 and selector 'timerFired'



    Any help/suggestions are appreciated. Unfortunately, I have to take off for Idaho today for work, and won't be back for about a month.



    (tig)
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