OS 10.3 - Safari has unexpectedly quit / JavaScript

polaire6 · polaire6 #1 (**permalink**)

10-06-2008, 12:31 PM

OS 10.3.9

I've been a victim of the dreaded safari crashes, which happened everytime I went to a site and used a link to other pages on that site. The error message always read:

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000008

followed by 16 pages of weird stuff. Well, after a lot of troubleshooting, deleting safari prefs (didn't work), repairing permissions (nope, that neither) I found a temporary solution was to disable JavaScript in the Security prefs.

Can anyone explain? I'm fairly mac-literate but not a techie by a long straw. What's all that bad access, kern failure stuff? Has anyone any better & more lasting suggestions than disbling javascript? Or should I upgrade the OS to Tiger and switch to Firefox (can't get the new Firefox for 10.3.9).

Would welcome advice! Thanks.

dtravis7 · dtravis7 #2 (**permalink**)

10-06-2008, 12:56 PM

What version of OSX are you running? It sounds like it maybe Panther 10.3. A close friend had those same issues and switched to Tiger and the problem went away. Safari in 10.3.9 is way outdated and has issues with some Java sites. I tried an older Mac with 10.3.9 on the sites that were giving my friend issues and it crashed on my older system also.

Also can you give a few of the URL's that are crashing Safari on your system?

polaire6 · polaire6 #3 (**permalink**)

10-06-2008, 04:02 PM

Thanks dtravis, I guess you're right about the Panther - time to ditch it. Here are a couple of URLs that I've tried to get today and which crashed Safari.

Camden Foil

Map of Sibdon Carwood on AboutBritain.com

Thanks for the advice!

dtravis7 · dtravis7 #4 (**permalink**)

10-06-2008, 07:59 PM

Both of those are fine here in Safari under Leopard 10.5.5. I will try them on my old iMac with 10.3.9.

EDIT: They crash here under 10.3.9 in Safari. They are fine on a Tiger or Leopard machine.

polaire6 · polaire6 #5 (**permalink**)

10-07-2008, 06:11 AM

That's good enough for me. I've just ordered the upgrade to Tiger. Thanks for running the control experiment; hopefully this thread will snag the attention of other crashers - there's a lot of Panther-Safari grief out there.

dtravis7 · dtravis7 #6 (**permalink**)

10-07-2008, 06:15 AM

The reason I was pretty sure is my friend tried everything including a fresh install of 10.3 and upgraded to 10.3.9 and his sites crashed Safari no matter what he did.

polaire6 · polaire6 #7 (**permalink**)

10-10-2008, 05:48 PM

Tiger installed, problem solved. Thanks again!

dtravis7 #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 04, 2005 Location: Modesto, Ca. Posts: 25,814 Mac Specs: iMac C2D Late 2007 20" with 10.8.3, Macbook Santa Rosa 4GB Ram OSX 10.8.3	10-06-2008, 12:56 PM What version of OSX are you running? It sounds like it maybe Panther 10.3. A close friend had those same issues and switched to Tiger and the problem went away. Safari in 10.3.9 is way outdated and has issues with some Java sites. I tried an older Mac with 10.3.9 on the sites that were giving my friend issues and it crashed on my older system also. Also can you give a few of the URL's that are crashing Safari on your system? ...Dennis Mac-Forums Community Guidelines
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dtravis7 #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 04, 2005 Location: Modesto, Ca. Posts: 25,814 Mac Specs: iMac C2D Late 2007 20" with 10.8.3, Macbook Santa Rosa 4GB Ram OSX 10.8.3	10-06-2008, 07:59 PM Both of those are fine here in Safari under Leopard 10.5.5. I will try them on my old iMac with 10.3.9. EDIT: They crash here under 10.3.9 in Safari. They are fine on a Tiger or Leopard machine. ...Dennis Mac-Forums Community Guidelines Last edited by dtravis7; 10-06-2008 at 08:34 PM.
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dtravis7 #6 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 04, 2005 Location: Modesto, Ca. Posts: 25,814 Mac Specs: iMac C2D Late 2007 20" with 10.8.3, Macbook Santa Rosa 4GB Ram OSX 10.8.3	10-07-2008, 06:15 AM The reason I was pretty sure is my friend tried everything including a fresh install of 10.3 and upgraded to 10.3.9 and his sites crashed Safari no matter what he did. ...Dennis Mac-Forums Community Guidelines
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polaire6 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 06, 2008 Location: London Posts: 6 Mac Specs: iBook G4	10-06-2008, 12:31 PM OS 10.3.9 I've been a victim of the dreaded safari crashes, which happened everytime I went to a site and used a link to other pages on that site. The error message always read: Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000008 followed by 16 pages of weird stuff. Well, after a lot of troubleshooting, deleting safari prefs (didn't work), repairing permissions (nope, that neither) I found a temporary solution was to disable JavaScript in the Security prefs. Can anyone explain? I'm fairly mac-literate but not a techie by a long straw. What's all that bad access, kern failure stuff? Has anyone any better & more lasting suggestions than disbling javascript? Or should I upgrade the OS to Tiger and switch to Firefox (can't get the new Firefox for 10.3.9). Would welcome advice! Thanks.
	QUOTE Thanks

polaire6 #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 06, 2008 Location: London Posts: 6 Mac Specs: iBook G4	10-07-2008, 06:11 AM That's good enough for me. I've just ordered the upgrade to Tiger. Thanks for running the control experiment; hopefully this thread will snag the attention of other crashers - there's a lot of Panther-Safari grief out there.
	QUOTE Thanks

polaire6 #7 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 06, 2008 Location: London Posts: 6 Mac Specs: iBook G4	10-10-2008, 05:48 PM Tiger installed, problem solved. Thanks again!
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