Safari in Yosemitte

[farina]

Safari worked consistent;ly until Yosemite. Now every couple hours it won't load anything unless I restart the iMac. All other browsers (Firefox, Chrome) work fine throughout. This happens if I log in as the other user I created just as it does in my main user.

 

[Slydude]

We need more information. Which iMac is it and how much memory is involved? Perhaps the logs can give us more information.

 

[farina]

The console log shows the same message each time

10/22/14 3:07:00.551 PM networkd[159]: -[NETProxyLookup pacLookupCompleteroxies:error:] PAC evaluation error: Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=2 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 2.)" UserInfo=0x7fc353e2cff0 {kCFGetAddrInfoFailureKey=8}

It's a 2012 iMac 2.9 GHz, 16 Gigabytes, plenty of free space. 1.08 TB of 1.11TB Free

 

[chas_m]

Sadly , all I can contribute to this is that I use Safari all day, every day in Tosemite and have.not seen this issue at all. Is your software firewall on by chance? If so, turn it off.

 

[Raz0rEdge]

This is not a prevalent problem for me since I've switched to using Safari after the Yosemite upgrade and use it all day without issues..

Do you have a proxy thats needed to access the Internet? If not, check your network settings to ensure that you don't have something in there..

 

[MacInWin]

Ditto here. I use Safari all day and have no problems at all. It must be something unique to your setup. Can it be the proxy is disconnecting, forcing the reset?

 

[vansmith]

That's a great idea MacInWin but that would affect all browsers unless they are set in the browser itself (I'm away from my Mac - does Safari have its own proxy settings or does it, as I suspect, use OS Xs?).

 

[MacInWin]

He didn't say he was using the proxy with all the other browsers, so it COULD be the problem if he's using the proxy only with Safari, but frankly, it's a stretch anyway. I use a proxy for some purposes and even if it disconnects, Safari still works.

 

[vansmith]

Again though, that would only be unique to Safari if the proxy was set for it alone. If you're using system wide settings, it should affect all browsers. That said, it could just be Safari crapping out and, as you mentioned, this only matters if proxies are in use.

OP, what's the error message?

 

[agodfrin]

I have had the exact same problem since I upgraded to Yosemite. The latest upgrade (10.10.1) makes no difference: Safari stops loading any page for no good reason. Chrome and Firefox keep on working just fine. Checking back after a while - here is Safari working again. Why ? No clue.

The apparent solution is therefore to (again) ditch Safari and come back to Chrome. Besides the fact that I like to understand what happens, this is, alas, not enough, and the problem may lie elsewhere.

It happened to me again yesterday: I was working all morning using Safari. Then I step out for 1/2 hour to grab lunch. I come back, and - you guessed it - Safari is locked. Out comes Chrome which works just fine.

But then I noticed several things:
1) Calendar has a spinning wheel and eventually declares it is unable to reach any of the iCloud calendars (as well as my corporate calendar).
2) Same for contacts: it spins a while then declares it is unable to reach the iCloud contacts
3) App Store (I had an update pending) just hangs. Eventually it stops saying it can't connect to the app store
4) Mail: emails stop displaying any images. Presumably the image URLs in the <img> tags just 404.

But Chrome and Firefox work just fine.

My conclusion is that something blocks some network interactions, but only for Apple apps. The symptoms are different for different apps. Safari becomes a useless brick. Calendar and Contacts keep on working, but they no longer synchronize, ...

Others applications don't care: Chrome, Firefox keep working their merry way.

Maybe some network-related daemon crashed ? You would expect to find some clue in the system logs. Forget it: it is virtually impossible to find anything conclusive from those logs. My log has gazillions of messages hinting about myriads of obscure infos, warnings or failures. Good luck finding anything sifting through that mess. Log entries are not even properly tagged as fatal/error/warning/info like any proper logging system does.

At the end I had to reboot my MacBook (I hate that: it is so **** slow) and everything is back again.

That is until the next occasion it happens again. I could not care less having Safari dying. But losing calendar and contacts synchronization is a pain and so is losing images from Mail.

Albert

 

[cradom]

From what you just wrote the common denominator is Apple.
Cloud, cloud and Mail web content (that's what it's called in Activity Monitor). Maybe the problem is with Apple or some daemon which connects with Apple (web-content?).
Restarting may restart the daemon or some other service. Far as I know, Firefox and Chrome don't use web-content.