![]() ![]() Will keep fingers crossed for this solution / work around to be heavily tried but seems to be an issue with software and font sizes by the looks of things. I have also de-selected the safari suggestions but I don't think it is that as I had further freezes after deselecting that. Ironically it was while checking out a new iMac that I noticed the fonts were bigger and I found an option to increase the font size - something I have since been unable to locate on my iMac and have therefore putnit down to hardware differences.Īll I could find was this option in safari so thought I would select it and give it a go - which has caused me no end of trouble it turns out.Īnyway after the fifth hard turn off and restart I have de-selected the option and run safari for a bit without any issues. This has been going on now for the past few weeks - sometimes I have a break and go a few days without anything happening even while using safari - but after reading this post and seeing someone flag the issue of selecting 'don't use fonts less then 12ppt' that got my attention as I think I can trace my issues back to the day I selected that a few weeks ago. ![]() Just been through a spate of iMac restarts in the last 30 minutes driving me nuts - clearly all related to safari as not much else open and every time it was while using safari. This started in earnest (in 2015 there were earlier signs of a bug in Safari that never got properly addressed) with the February update. Although it can manifest itself in some slightly different ways on various different Macs, all the evidence points to a major mismatch of Safari with Javascript. I must say that in all my years of Internet computing I've never come across a situation with a browser quite as bad as this one. I mean, that's fine as far as it goes, but with such a widespread issue as this one with Safari at present, those developers at Apple need to be woken up to the position a great many of us are finding ourselves in now. Simply discussing the problem in this or another Community forum isn't going to make it come to their attention. You can also find other ways of contacting Apple, including a free phoneback service, at the bottom of the webpage at, including the Contact Us link. Have you complained to Apple themselves about it? Unless you've already done so, leave details about your machine and its Safari troubles at. It states that one of the modifications to Safari is an 'updated version of WebKit, with enhanced support for images and CSS' - which therefore involves webpage layout and must surely involve Javascript! The trouble is that I don't think the change they've made to Safari in this respect is entirely bug-free. In fact, it's very interesting what the 9.1 update to Safari states (I usually do my updates manually and so can read what Apple says they're modifying before I allow the download). When Safari 'bombs out' and you then subsequently look in the System Log you invariably find that a 'webpage error' (or words to that effect) has occurred. Some of these changes may well include new restrictions on font types and sizes. I'm personally convinced that Javascript developers have made fundamental changes in recent months that have been designed, at the expense of laptops and desktop machines, to cater more for iOS-run devices. To leave Safe Mode, just restart the Mac in the normal way without pressing any keys.Īs I've said so often in a number of these forums, I'm of the view that most of Safari's current woes are caused by a mismatch of it with Javascript, the software used by websites that determines the layout of webpages when used with a browser. OSX should finally bring you out to the Desktop again.Ħ. The process could take a few minutes, so be patient and don't use the mouse or keyboard or whatever in that time.ĥ. ![]() Let OSX then do its thing in the background. The screen should then remain essentially blank. ![]() Release the key when you see the Apple logo in the middle of the screen.Ĥ. Place your finger over the Shift key (not on it) and as soon as you hear the 'tah-dah' sound, depress the Shift key and hold it down.ģ. Restart the Mac by clicking Apple icon > Restart.Ģ. Safe Mode normally takes less than 5 mins to run. In Safe Mode only the essential elements of OSX are automatically loaded and run, and OSX then checks everything out and corrects any anomalies it finds. Have you tried putting your Mac temporarily into Safe Mode? There's a possibility that it could improve your current situation. ![]()
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