If mark several forums read & Safari crashes, site forgets

[Norm Nager]

On occasion Safari 2.0.1 crashes while navigating within the MacOSXHints forums. It's frustrating when you go through a couple or several forums and opted before leaving each to have the website mark all the numerous threads in each as "read" only to re-launch Safari, and find the MacOSXHints website has "forgotten".

This problem goes back through older versions of Safari.

Is there any way the webmaster now or designers of the website can prevent the loss of website memory on the previous session?

Respectfully, Norm

[hayne]

I'm not sure, but I think the state of the forums (read or not, etc) is stored in a cookie that Safari puts on your hard disk. And I think it only stores that cookie when it quits,otherwise it is help in memory. So if Safari crashes, the info is lost.

[Norm Nager]

Safari also stores cookies on my hard disk for other websites that somehow maintain memory beyond crashes on which of their forums I check for mark all threads read.

[voldenuit]

Unless you are using the cvs-version that occasionally dies, the most recent release version of Tiger has never crashed on me, let alone while navigating vbulletin.

Perhaps cleaning out cache files and checking plists for consistency etc. might help.
Are there reproducable ways to make Safari crash ?
If so, filing a radar-bug would be a good idea.

Unless one of the tech people running the site here answers the precise point about vbulletin, looking around on the vbulletin forum might help. It probably depends on storing the info in a cookie (that won't get written back to disk because of the crash) or in-session associated with your user-id, sitting crash-proof on the remote server.

[Norm Nager]

No cvs version. No cache. And I have used the Reset Safari button when I had problems at this website. I may have no crashes for several days with probably thousands of visits to sites where I'm doing research. One hunch is that some--not all--of the crashes may result from PithHelmet finding a banner or the like that causes a hiccup. And at some late night hours, MacOSXHints may be under some degree of maintenance and lead to more trouble than I experience in other forums. That said, I'll re-iterate that I'm not having loss of memory on my settings at other websites' forums.

Thanks very much for your concern, Hayne and Voldenuit.

Respectfully, Norm