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When I open a new tab in Safari sometimes my screen goes crazy, anyone one else?

Asked by johnny0313x (1855points) March 23rd, 2010

I am running the latest version of Safari on snow Leopard. Sometimes(usually when I first open Safari or have not used it for awhile) when I open a new tab the screen will get crazy like all video garbage then fix itself after 2–3 seconds. This only happens with Safari. Does this mean my video card is going bad? I don’t think so since it is only Safari that I have ever seen anything like this happen with.

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jerv's avatar

Safari uses the same engine as Chrome except a generation behind.
The Webkit engine tends to be a little odd anyways, and the older versions doubly so.
Put them together and you arrive at the answer: blame Safari.

Personally, the only feature in Safari that I like is easily obtained with Foxtab , and I have had enough bad luck with Webkit browsers in general to avoid them. Look on the plus side though; at least Safari actually loads on your machine! That’s better than I ever managed.

jrpowell's avatar

If I was you I would try moving /Users/yourusername/Library/Safari to a different folder. I would suggest moving it to the Desktop. You will lose some settings. If that doesn’t work you can always move the folder back. Safari will create all that stuff again if you move that folder. Just do it while Safari is closed.

johnny0313x's avatar

Okay I will try that when I get home from work. To be honest I am a chrome user but magically the other day chrome decided to give the kill page message for 90% of the pages I go on so I will have to try and reinstall it or something. Meanwhile I am using Safari. Also when I play instant play netflix movies…they won’t play in Chrome. Either way I will work on this safari problem because that is the most annoying..it makes it look like the monitor is going to explode or something lol

timtrueman's avatar

This is with Top Sites showing in new tabs? Update to the latest version of Safari and Mac OS X (10.6.2 I believe). Apple fixed it a while ago (at least for me).

johnny0313x's avatar

Yes top sites, I figured they were the cause of it. I am all updated with the OS and Safari…it actually started when I updated lol

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