Firstly if I ever right click on anything flash, ANYTHING, it stops having any functionality. This forces me to reload the page if I accidentally right click on any flash component. A context menu pops up, but once I click off I can't bring it back. Quite annoying on flash based sites or flash based links.
Secondly, Safari crashes at least once each session. I will go to a new page and while it is loading the prompt jumps up saying Safari needs to close and I haave the option to Cancel, Close, Reopen. However none of these options work once I click them and I must force quit Safari and reopen. Very annoying if you have 8 or 9 tabs on the go. I have found no rhyme or reason to these random once a day crashes and once I reload Safari and revisit the pages I was on everything works just fine.
Just go to Firefox? I like Firefox, but I find Safari more comfortable and intuitive. These problems aren't make or break just annoying.
I can only offer solidarity. My Safari has been ridiculously crash-prone of late, too.
Of course, I have a few plug-ins - I may have to uninstall them and do the trial-and-error routine to see which one (if any) is causing this.
Anybody know of an easier way to check the bugginess of plug-ins? I currently have installed:
- Saft
- Inquisitor
- RealPlayer
- VerifiedDownload (what the heck is this?)
- Flip4Mac WMV player
- iPhoto Photocast
- Quartz Composer
- Shockwave Flash
- Quicktime 7.1.3
- Java Plug-In for Cocoa.
You can check your list of plug-ins under "Help--> Installed Plug-Ins"
maybe if a few people posted which plug-ins they have installed an if they are having problems with Safari crashing, we can pin point a troublesome plug-in (if that in fact is the problem) quickly.
I now use Safari 2.0.4 (which I assume is the latest version). Crashes with Safari are extremely seldom - maybe once every few months and I use Safari every day on a wide variety of websites..
Plug-ins are:
Java Plug-in for Cocoa
Shockwave for Director
Adobe Acrobat and Reader Plug-in
Quartz Composer Plug-In
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r19
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r20
QuickTime Plug-in 7.1.3
QuickTime Plug-in 7.1.3
Java Plug-in (CFM)
Java 1.3.1 Plug-in (CFM)
Flip4Mac Windows Media Web Plugin 2.1
Flip4Mac Windows Media Plugin 2.1
Verified Download Plugin
Digital Rights Management Plugin
Java Plug-in
Oddly enough I have a few plug-ins twice, sometimes different versions or slightly different names (like the Flip4Mac one).
Can I just delete the duplicates?
Mmmmmh...wonder what to do with the duplicates - I guess I'll leave them for now.
As to the DRM plug-in, I have no clue how that ended up on my Mac. I don't listen to any music on this Mac other than what the odd website occasionally provides and I don't use itunes at all.
I have tried umpteen ways to Sunday to play some windows media files that I believe are controlled by DRM, but without any success. I believe it's impossible to play those on the Mac unless you get an Intel one and run XP.
That DRM plug-in has certainly done nothing to help - it's just one item listed under Safari>Help>Plug-ins.
The complete information is:
Digital Rights Management Plugin
Provides support for Digital Rights Management — from file “DRM Plugin.bundle”.
MIME Type Description Extensions
application/x-drm Digital Rights Management
Apple handles the release of Java within Mac OS X - if you run Software Update you can get the updates Apple has made available for Java (if you don't already have them).
Oddly, ever since I installed the new Safari beta, Microsoft Messenger crashes whenever I close a dialogue window. That doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense, cause there's no relation between the two programs at all.
Thanks for all the feed back from all of you wondeful people .
I was Google searching for answers (Java for Mac Os 10.3.9 ) yesterday and came across an apple document re Java update that was about Safari quiting and getting disconnected from the net, when Java was installed. That was exactly what I was experiencing.
It gave an update for Java that is supposed to correct that problem.
So I did the procedure.
I have not used Java yet, but I worked on my computer all day and so far nothing bad happened and I had no problems with it quitting.
Prior to this it would quit or disconnect within a couple of hours and very often after .
I will see what the future holds.
Thanks again.
David
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