Mac OS 10.7.3: Safari 5.1.4 Display Anomaly

Voigtlander Ultron 35mm f/1.7 Aspherical MF Wide Angle - Black

03/23/2012 06:39:48 PM · #1

The pages and menues linked to in the blue navigational bar below the DPChallenge header

"My Home, Challenges, Community, League, Photos" etc.

have entirely vanished from the bar.
Instead, the Safari status bar at bottom of page reports: "Building Menu" without doing what it promises..

I emptied the bowser cache, restarted, changed the user agent (under the Developer menu) and crossed my fingers without effect.
Software and OS are up-to-date; disk is error-free; permissions repaired.

Does anyone else experience this or a similar issue?
Any ideas, fixes, suggestions?

(Firefox and Google Chrome (also current) do not suffer this issue and behave properly).

Message edited by author 2012-03-23 18:41:50.

Paul

Leica SL

03/23/2012 06:42:43 PM · #2

What do you have ticked in the Security tab of 'preferences'?

03/23/2012 06:58:33 PM · #3

.. All except 'Block Pop-Up Windows'.

Voigtlander Ultron 35mm f/1.7 Aspherical MF Wide Angle - Black

03/24/2012 03:40:54 AM · #4

Paul

Leica SL

03/24/2012 03:45:58 AM · #5

I know you cleared your cache but have you tried cmd refresh to force a reload of the page?

Voigtlander Ultron 35mm f/1.7 Aspherical MF Wide Angle - Black

03/24/2012 04:12:39 AM · #6

Refresh, yes, to no effect.
Cmd-Refresh (Cmd +the Refresh symbol in the URL bar?) does not reload the page or alter anything in the Status bar.

(Thanks for the replies, btw)

Paul

Leica SL

03/24/2012 04:57:00 AM · #7

OK - try shift + refresh symbol on the URL bar...

03/24/2012 08:05:14 AM · #8

Just to check on your Safari build. Is it the same as mine? Version 5.1.4 (7534.54.16)

I am using same OS and Safari version. Not having that symptom. But, there was a very recent (last few days) updatet to Safari.

I did experience some problems with spell check and grammar check and auto complete doing wierd things (slowdown). Had to shut those off. And, had to reset Safari AND a shut down of computer (more than a restart) with 15 minutes of shut down time before restarting.

You might have a bad build of Safari.

03/24/2012 02:27:58 PM · #9

Originally posted by hahn23:

Thanks, Richard.
The build is the same as yours: 7534.54.16.
I reset again, shut down and re-started, to no effect.
I reinstalled Safari, too: no change.

03/24/2012 03:34:50 PM · #10

I should make clear that Safari displays other sites and pages accurately.

The issue appears to be confined to DPChallenge.

03/24/2012 03:57:48 PM · #11

In the same way that your web browser has a cache of recent web pages, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) may be doing some caching on your behalf.

In some (rare) cases, even though you are using shift-refresh to get new data from a webpage, the pages still seem to be old. This may be because your Internet Service Provider also has a cache and their cache may not be set up quite right, and they are not downloading the latest web pages.

When you encounter this problem you will have to communicatie with your ISP to fix this problem.

Or you could switch to OpenDNS or GoogleDNS.

03/24/2012 04:08:33 PM · #12

Originally posted by hahn23:

...switch to OpenDNS or GoogleDNS.

Ah, yes, but I already use OpenDNS.

scalvert

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

03/24/2012 04:54:01 PM · #13

Create another account on your Mac and login from there. If it works, then you know the problem is within your account prefs rather than the ISP or system configuration.

03/24/2012 05:04:24 PM · #14

Originally posted by scalvert:

Create another account on your Mac and login from there. If it works, then you know the problem is within your account prefs rather than the ISP or system configuration.

I deleted various Safari preference files and relaunched Safari, to no effect.

Logged out of my Admin account into another account I had set up for troubleshooting (such as this, I suppose) and this resolved the issue within that account.

Restarted, and behold, all is well on all accounts!

And now I owe you a Tuborg. :)

Message edited by author 2012-03-24 17:05:09.

03/24/2012 05:06:02 PM · #15

Thank you, all.

03/25/2012 02:09:37 PM · #16

And now the issue is back!

03/26/2012 09:17:18 PM · #17

and now....

Safari 5.1.5 update improves 32-bit stability

Sounds like this addresses your problem, I hope!

03/26/2012 11:12:10 PM · #18

Originally posted by hahn23:

and now....

Safari 5.1.5 update improves 32-bit stability

Sounds like this addresses your problem, I hope!

Yes, I installed this version earlier today, and it resolved the issue. :)