safari crashes whenever I try to open it

[Caroline]

Hey Guys,

i have been having a new problem with my 1.42 GHz G4 ibook running 10.4.8. A couple of months ago I had a major problem that resulted in me having to reformat my hard drive a couple of times. I'm not sure what that was about but I thought my problems were behind me. Recently I have had to install NeoOffice on my mac. Everything has worked well for over a week or so. All of the sudden when I got up this morning Safari crashed on me. This isn't unusual, safari and Mail crash on me all of time. The strange thing is that I cannot open safari at all now. It seems to open, but the homepage address never makes it up, and then it just crashes, followed by the typical os X crash report.

Any ideas what to do? Luckily I was able to download Firefox from my other mac and transfer it to my ibook. But I want safari and all of my bookmarks.

Ok, and I have to admit one other "incident". I accidentally spilled some sugar on the ibook over thanksgiving! Some of the sugar got stuck under the keys of the keyboard. But most of it was blown out.

Thanks!

[Carm]

XXXX= whatever your user name(account name) is.

Delete the (com.apple.Safari.plist) and try Safari again.
Location: XXXX/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

[mikebw]

You might also check to see that you have the appropriate/latest version of Safari.

[Caroline]

Well, I tried the plist, and although it did change something, the size of the window actually, the darn thing crashed again. Here is the beginning of the report. Maybe someone can make some sense of this.

Thanks!!!

Report Version: 4

Command: Safari
Path: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Parent: WindowServer [90]

Version: 2.0.4 (419.3)
Build Version: 1
Project Name: WebBrowser
Source Version: 4190300

PID: 487
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xbf7fffc0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907c6a98 CFStringCreateWithBytes + 16
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907e693c __CFBinaryPlistCreateObject + 808
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907e6e08 __CFBinaryPlistCreateObject + 2036
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907e6bc4

[DaviDC.]

Use Firefox.

[BigGuynRusty]

Bad RAM.
Serious, you kinda quickly run by that you are having constant crashes with a freshly installed system, on a unix box that points to Bad RAM, this little tidbit helps also.:
"Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xbf7fffc0 "
Safari relies on parts of the System to run, it is "modular", it seems that the parts it needs are loaded into a bad section of RAM.

BGnR
Big Problem Pointer.:
"This isn't unusual, safari and Mail crash on me all of time."

[OWC Jamie]

If the same thing(s) happen with another user (you set up a "guest" user, right?)
then possibly ram, especially if this is happening with other apps, too.
You could let a ram test run over-nite.
If the laptop gets bumped a lot, you might remove ram and put it back. (no power, battery removed) Every now and then I fix users woes just by removing and reinserting ram.
Usually frozen cursor/desktops though. Sometimes scrambled looking video. (shared video ram)