Safari crashing

January 1, 2006 3:33 PM

Something is causing my Safari 2.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.3 to crash after I've typed three or four characters into the "post comment" textarea on any MeFi site.

It doesn't happen with the "Post a thread" textarea, as evidenced by this post...
posted by Mwongozi to Bugs at 3:33 PM (10 comments total)

Additionally, I got this error when I tried to make this post:



(And I'm having to make this comment in Camino.)
posted by Mwongozi at 3:37 PM on January 1, 2006

No problems with Safari here (looks like we're at the same version, too).
posted by sbutler at 3:39 PM on January 1, 2006

I've got the same versions and don't see this problem, for what it's worth.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:10 PM on January 1, 2006

Going to the address in the error window give a 404. Going to spellcheckthis.com gets a "Coming Soon" message.
posted by ajpresto at 4:46 PM on January 1, 2006

causing my Safari 2.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.3 to crash after I've typed three or four characters into the "post comment" textarea on any MeFi site

Doesn't happen with my safari, and is completely unrelated to the new spellchecker I'm testing, if it's happening on any MeFi site.

Do you get a beachball or does it just die instantly?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:53 PM on January 1, 2006

It just disappears, then I get a "quit unexpectedly".

But since it's not happening for anyone else, I guess it's just my Mac sucking. Again. :/
posted by Mwongozi at 5:06 PM on January 1, 2006

are you using saft or anything odd?
posted by bonaldi at 5:18 PM on January 1, 2006

Do you have any odd directories in "/Library/Internet Plug-Ins"? I have:

AdobePDFViewer.plugin
DRM Plugin.bundle
Flash Player.plugin
Java Applet Plugin Enabler
Java Applet.plugin
JavaEmbeddingPlugin.bundle
JavaPluginCocoa.bundle
MRJPlugin.plugin
NP-PPC-Dir-Shockwave
PDF Browser Plugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.webplugin
RealPlayer Plugin
RealPlayer Plugin.xpt
Windows Media Plugin
flashplayer.xpt
nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt

That spellcheckthis.com message is really odd. If this were Windows, I'd say you have a virus or spyware.
posted by sbutler at 6:37 PM on January 1, 2006

No, the message was from loading a page that didn't have a proper link back (in the footer, the firefox download one), which I fixed. No spyware here.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 6:49 PM on January 1, 2006

why is a download firefox link being sent through a referral for some spellcheck site? It see it has the broken notebook code in it and guessing that has something to do with it.
posted by puke & cry at 10:21 AM on January 2, 2006