Safari Seems Less Stable in macOS 10.12.2

2017-01-10 • SEND FEEDBACK |
Related: Apple, Apple Core Rot, Apple macOS, Apple Safari web browser

See my Mac wish list.

Safari has been crashing more lately, and I suspect macOS 10.12.2 is involved, though it might just be that macOS Sierra is the turd it has felt like from the start.

Today, I just wanted to print one page from a web site—it’s not asking a whole lot.

Process:               Safari [30427]
Path:                  /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Identifier:            com.apple.Safari
Version:               10.0.2 (12602.3.12.0.1)
Build Info:            WebBrowser-7602003012000001~2
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Safari [30427]
User ID:               501
Date/Time:             2017-01-10 08:43:53.862 -0800
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.12.2 (16C68)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        3A1B3248-8914-452A-A38E-AF944F6FE8CA
Sleep/Wake UUID:       652ED10F-8234-48DA-A5DA-00E009C4C044
Time Awake Since Boot: 26000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       3300 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Crashed Thread:        33
Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000018
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Termination Signal:    Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process:   exc handler [0]
Thread 33 Crashed:
0   libobjc.A.dylib               	0x00007fffbcc32b5d objc_msgSend + 29
1   com.apple.AppKit              	0x00007fffa5bb3aed -[NSView(NSLayerKitGlue) _drawViewBackingLayer:inContext:drawingHandler:] + 1717
2   com.apple.AppKit              	0x00007fffa5bb3432 -[NSView(NSLayerKitGlue) drawLayer:inContext:] + 80
3   com.apple.QuartzCore          	0x00007fffadc76314 CABackingStoreUpdate_ + 3740
4   com.apple.QuartzCore          	0x00007fffadd93464 ___ZN2CA5Layer8display_Ev_block_invoke + 75
5   com.apple.QuartzCore          	0x00007fffadd930c5 CA::Layer::display_() + 1803
6   com.apple.AppKit              	0x00007fffa5bb22ca _NSBackingLayerDisplay + 577
7   com.apple.AppKit              	0x00007fffa5ba5531 -[_NSViewBackingLayer display] + 885
8   com.apple.QuartzCore          	0x00007fffadd86f6e CA::Layer::display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 572
9   com.apple.QuartzCore          	0x00007fffadd87099 CA::Layer::layout_and_display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 35
10  com.apple.QuartzCore          	0x00007fffadd7c878 CA::Context::commit_transaction(CA::Transaction*) + 280
11  com.apple.QuartzCore          	0x00007fffadc73631 CA::Transaction::commit() + 475
12  com.apple.QuartzCore          	0x00007fffadc73aab CA::Transaction::release_thread(void*) + 589
13  libsystem_pthread.dylib       	0x00007fffbd73b50f _pthread_tsd_cleanup + 544
14  libsystem_pthread.dylib       	0x00007fffbd73b249 _pthread_exit + 152
15  libsystem_pthread.dylib       	0x00007fffbd73bda8 pthread_exit + 30
16  com.apple.Foundation          	0x00007fffa99d2dd7 +[NSThread exit] + 11
17  com.apple.Foundation          	0x00007fffa9967c81 __NSThread__start__ + 1263
18  libsystem_pthread.dylib       	0x00007fffbd739aab _pthread_body + 180
19  libsystem_pthread.dylib       	0x00007fffbd7399f7 _pthread_start + 286
20  libsystem_pthread.dylib       	0x00007fffbd7391fd thread_start + 13