Folks,
I ran into a odd issue on Friday, which I was finally able to resolve today…. Â With Safari v4.03 and Snow Leopard v10.6.1, I was having Safari lockups with any Flash content….
I ran the 10.6.1 updater, rebooted, and then discovered the issue. Â Here\’s the steps I took to try to resolve this issue…
- Open Disk Utility, and performed a repair permissions. Â And this did solve part of the issue, now the entire web page would render (it did fix several plugin related permissions issues).
- Attempt to re-install flash player… Â (http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer) — No change
- Manually cleared the Safari folder ( ~/Library/Safari ) of HistoryIndex.sk, LastSession.plist, History.plist,WebpageIcons.db, and TopSites.plist, in case any of them are corrupted — No Change.
- The last step I took, makes sense in hindsight, especially when you consider the information from Ars Technica\’s discussion on Safari 4 / Snow Leopard…. Â I rebooted.
I believe the helper application that exchanges data between Safari 64bit & the 32 bit plugin\’s became stuck in a \”odd state\”. Â It was still functional, but the data exchange wasn\’t operating properly…
Rebooting resolved the issue, and I suspect logging out, and logging back in may also have worked….
– Benjamin