Re: Safari crashes frequently in UnlockPixels()

In article <sdfisher-7C6827.21585125082008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steven Fisher <sdfisher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <jollyroger-1142B4.13484325082008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is a crash in the QuickTime web browser plug-in module. Have you
updated QuickTime or any web browser plug-in modules (including Perian,
Flip4Mac (aka Windows Media Components for QuickTime), Flash, or others)
lately?

It looks like it, doesn't it! But the page has no QuickTime movies.

And it doesn't have to. QuickTime is a general media API. Lots of media
isn't movies.

So I would still suggest the same things I suggested in my previous
message - have you tried them yet?

Still, it's a good thing to check out. As far as I'm aware, I have no
third party codecs. This is a relatively fresh install of Leopard, maybe
a month old.

Here's what I've got in /Library/QuickTime:
AppleIntermediateCodec.component
AppleMPEG2Codec.component

I think these are both part of iLife.

/System/Library/QuickTime has a bunch more, but none that look third
party. No Perian/Flip4Mac that I know of, and only whatever Flash is
included in Mac OS X. I have not yet begun to mess with this system. :)

Flip4Mac would be at:

/Library/PreferencePanes/Flip4Mac WMV
/Library/QuickTime/Flip4Mac WMV Advanced

Perian would be at:

/Library/PreferencePanes/Perian
/Library/QuickTime/Perian

Does the crash happen in a new Mac OS X user account? If not, you might
try locating and deleting any QuickTime-related preferences files in
your ~/Library/Preferences/ folder.

It does happen with a new user account.

Then the problem is probably outside your user account.

Try removing these files, then logging out and back in. Does that change
things?

/Library/Caches/com.apple.Components2.LocalCache.QuickTimeComponents
/Library/Caches/com.apple.QuickTime.StreamingBandwidth
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.QuickTime.plist

We can spend a lot of time diagnosing things to figure out where,
specifically, the problem lies. But it may be more expedient to try
installing the very latest Mac OS X combo updater from Apple. Combo
updaters replace all files that have changed since the initial release.
If one or more of those files happen to be ones that are causing
problems on your system, installing the combo update has a good chance
of solving your problem in a quick manner.

The specific crash case I have at this point is switching between tabs
in iGoogle (what they renamed MyGoogle to). Tabs are, in this order: the
Google Reader widget, a two column news widget with Top Stories and CBC
Top Stories News, and two column tab containing only GMail. All tabs are
using the Google Classic theme, and as far as I know have no rich media
on them at all.

I think I'll try installing the third party codecs, since I don't
remember having this much trouble before I reformatted.

How did you install the operating system after reformatting? It's
possible some system files were not restored properly, which could lead
to other problems down the line.

But since
there's a browser involved, this could easily be something Google's done
recently that Safari is vulnerable to.

That's certainly a possibility; but then I would think others here might
be chiming in by now.

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