Safari Plug-ins freezing under Snow Leopard?

Folks,

I ran into a odd issue on Friday, which I was finally able to resolve today….  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.  Here’s the steps I took to try to resolve this issue…

  1. Open Disk Utility, and performed a repair permissions.  And this did solve part of the issue, now the entire web page would render (it did fix several plugin related permissions issues).
  2. Attempt to re-install flash player…  (http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer) — No change
  3. 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.
  4. 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….  I rebooted.

I believe the helper application that exchanges data between Safari 64bit & the 32 bit plugin’s became stuck in a “odd state”.  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