Browser Crashes

[daryl66]

12" pb osx 10.4.11 768mb Firefox 3.0.5 Safari 3.2

I have been experiencing regular crashes on both FF and Safari. All other apps seem to be working fine, no crashes.  I took the following from the console log and the Library Safari crash log.   It is greek to me.  Is there enuff info here to point me in the direction I need to go???

Jan 30 16:32:47 Imac-sharing crashdump[380]: Safari crashed
Jan 30 16:32:49 Imac-sharing crashdump[380]: crash report written to: /Users/darylbrendaelliff/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Safari.crash.log

Last few entries of crash log which is a VERY Large file :



  0x9b0e6000 - 0x9b0f8fff com.apple.SyndicationUI 1.0.7 (55)   /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SyndicationUI.framework/Versions/A/SyndicationUI
0x9b318000 - 0x9b32ffff libCFilter.A.dylib    /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/Resources/libCFilter.A.dylib
0x9c1ce000 - 0x9c1eefff libmx.A.dylib    /usr/lib/libmx.A.dylib
0x9ff16000 - 0x9ff55fff com.apple.QuickTimeFireWireDV.component 7.5.5 (990.7)   /System/Library/QuickTime/QuickTimeFireWireDV.component/Contents/MacOS/QuickTimeFireWireDV
0x9ff5e000 - 0x9ff9ffff com.apple.CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate 12.0   /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.framework/Versions/A/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate
0x9ffc4000 - 0x9fff1fff com.apple.CoreMediaPrivate 11.0   /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaPrivate.framework/Versions/A/CoreMediaPrivate
0xeab00000 - 0xeab25fff libConverter.dylib    /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/libConverter.dylib


Daryl

[Xairbusdriver]

I'm not sure that a G4/PPC can make much use of many of the "Core Graphics" routines. It could be the apps simply stumbling over that.

Another thing could be cashes that are not clearing as they should, even in both browsers. Many interweb files, mainly videos are extremely large and may be over crowding your available RAM and drive transfer speed, thus ending up as corrupted input to the graphics portions of the apps.

Plus, I think both browsers have been accused with having memory leaks. That could also be a big problem with 768MB of RAM.

Safari 3.1.2 claims to be a Universal build, you might try that as well as the most current version of FF. Could be the cheapest, fastest 'solution.'

[daryl66]

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Jan 30 2009, 10:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Another thing could be cashes that are not clearing as they should, even in both browsers.

Did not think of the Caches.  I will start there. This is "Her" temp machine and who knows what they might hold.

Intend to run Cocktail first then clear them manually.

Will advise.


Thanks

Daryl

[sandbox]

hey daryl,

I get that as well at facebook or myspace using firefox sometimes. I solve it most of the time by just keeping the cache clean. Sometime I'll just Run Onyx and clean cache and temp files, that seems to do the trick.

[daryl66]

QUOTE(sandbox @ Feb 1 2009, 03:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

hey daryl,

I get that as well at facebook or myspace using firefox sometimes. I solve it most of the time by just keeping the cache clean. Sometime I'll just Run Onyx and clean cache and temp files, that seems to do the trick.

SB:   I cleared the caches and installed the latest Safari. I also increased the cache size on one of them (dont recall which one)  She only used it one day and seemed to be ok.  We are out traveling this week and the machine is resting at home so wont have any real test for over a week.

Thanks

Daryl

[sandbox]

Daryl, another thing......if I have trouble with a site I will sometimes open another browser to see how it handles it. If you don't like firefox there's always Camino....or...or... just for comparative analysis sake.

If nothing works and if my curiosity gets the best of me I'll use Amaya from the W3 and play with the code. I rarely have that much time anymore but sometimes some site just get my goat.