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Yosemite iMac freezing when using Chrome or Safari to stream video
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<blockquote data-quote="mjteigen" data-source="post: 1643199" data-attributes="member: 345182"><p>I have OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 and a mid-2010 iMac with an 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3 and 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 of RAM.</p><p></p><p>About once a week my whole system freezes when I use either the Chrome or Safari web browser to stream video (Netflix and JWplayer seem to cause it...I dunno about Youtube). Firefox seems to work better, but I'm still in the process of testing that.</p><p></p><p>The system freeze is catastrophic: applications seem to be running normally to some extent in some kind of background, but my system won't accept input from the mouse (the cursor is frozen in place) or keyboard, including the force quit command. The only thing I can do is hold down the power button for a cold boot.</p><p></p><p>At first I blamed Silverlight (unfortunately I have an older mac and I can't just use html5 to play Netflix), but then the freeze happened while using JWplayer to watch a video on a streaming website. I recently bought and installed "Clean My Mac 2" which I've used a few times. Also, I recently updated "Self Control" to the new version which works under Yosemite. I can't think of any other system alterations.</p><p></p><p>Any ideas about causes or courses of action are certainly welcome. Thanks for your time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mjteigen, post: 1643199, member: 345182"] I have OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 and a mid-2010 iMac with an 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3 and 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 of RAM. About once a week my whole system freezes when I use either the Chrome or Safari web browser to stream video (Netflix and JWplayer seem to cause it...I dunno about Youtube). Firefox seems to work better, but I'm still in the process of testing that. The system freeze is catastrophic: applications seem to be running normally to some extent in some kind of background, but my system won't accept input from the mouse (the cursor is frozen in place) or keyboard, including the force quit command. The only thing I can do is hold down the power button for a cold boot. At first I blamed Silverlight (unfortunately I have an older mac and I can't just use html5 to play Netflix), but then the freeze happened while using JWplayer to watch a video on a streaming website. I recently bought and installed "Clean My Mac 2" which I've used a few times. Also, I recently updated "Self Control" to the new version which works under Yosemite. I can't think of any other system alterations. Any ideas about causes or courses of action are certainly welcome. Thanks for your time. [/QUOTE]
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