Safari Crashing: Help or Try Firefox?

[rho]

Recently after i have read a thread and then click back my browser (safari) crashes. This doesn't happen all the time (about 50% maybe). I was wondering if anyone could suggest anything or has experienced the same problem.

If no one knows how to fix it i'll download firefox and see if that's any better.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Is there an error log for safari or for osx that you can look at?

 

[Moonbear]

I don't have that problem, and I use Safari also, so I don't think it's a specific conflict between this site and Safari.

 

[loseyourname]

My browser doesn't crash, but I've noticed that if I have it set to private browsing, then it will load (when I click back, but not when I click on an actual link or type in an address) whatever is in the cache from the last time I visited without the privacy setting turned on. This doesn't seem to happen at any other site that I've noticed.

 

[rho]

Ok thanks, i'll have a look in the log files and post it if i can't see what is wrong.

 

[rho]

Here's the first bit of the log. Anyone know what happened?

Date/Time: 2006-04-15 13:11:33.878 +0100
OS Version: 10.4.6 (Build 8I127)
Report Version: 4

Command: Safari
Path: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Parent: WindowServer [59]

Version: 2.0.3 (417.9.2)
Build Version: 7
Project Name: WebBrowser
Source Version: 4170902

PID: 842
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00018038

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.WebCore 0x95938638 khtml::RenderStyle::RenderStyle[unified]() + 36
1 com.apple.WebCore 0x959496a8 khtml::CSSStyleSelector::styleForElement(DOM::ElementImpl*, khtml::RenderStyle*, bool) + 284
2 com.apple.WebCore 0x95949478 DOM::NodeImpl::createRendererIfNeeded() + 108
3 com.apple.WebCore 0x959493f4 DOM::ElementImpl::attach() + 24
4 com.apple.WebCore 0x95948484 KHTMLParser::insertNode(DOM::NodeImpl*, bool) + 2444
5 com.apple.WebCore 0x959465f8 KHTMLParser::parseToken(khtml::Token*) + 620
6 com.apple.WebCore 0x959436a0 khtml:TMLTokenizer::processToken() + 460
7 com.apple.WebCore 0x95945004 khtml:TMLTokenizer::parseTag(khtml::TokenizerString&) + 6296
8 com.apple.WebCore 0x95942f20 khtml:TMLTokenizer::write(khtml::TokenizerString const&, bool) + 928
9 com.apple.WebCore 0x9597d364 khtml:TMLTokenizer::timerEvent(QTimerEvent*) + 252
10 com.apple.WebCore 0x9597d21c -[KWQObjectTimerTarget sendTimerEvent] + 80
11 com.apple.Foundation 0x92978f5c __NSFireTimer + 116
12 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907f7aec __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 184
13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907e4464 __CFRunLoopRun + 1680
14 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907e3a18 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 268
15 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9321d980 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 264
16 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9321d014 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 380
17 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9321ce80 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 96
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x9371f104 _DPSNextEvent + 384
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x9371edc8 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 116
20 com.apple.Safari 0x00006e74 0x1000 + 24180
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x9371b30c -[NSApplication run] + 472
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x9380be68 NSApplicationMain + 452
23 com.apple.Safari 0x0005cbec 0x1000 + 375788
24 com.apple.Safari 0x0005ca94 0x1000 + 375444