HELP! CRASHING PROBLEMS IN MULTIPLE PROGRAMS!

[Nefesh]

Hello,

After recently getting an iBook G4, I discovered Adium, and fell deeply in love with it. Great program.

Four weeks later, it's been crashing like mad- if I IM or am IMed in it, it crashes, every time.

Same for iChat, and AIM crashes on occasion, but more frequently than one would think. Also, my Halo demo, which I downloaded a mere 2 days ago, freezes when it attempts to get a server list.

I tried to get Coliquoy to talk to Adium guys over IRC, but it CRASHES IN STARTUP

Somehow these problems seem related. HELP!

Much thanks.

[Tipo 61]

First off, there is no need to use ALL CAPS in the topic. Second, if multiple applications are crashing, this seems like a system problem, not an Adium problem.

Have you been having kernel panics recently? Is it only internet-based apps that are crashing?

Also, what version of Mac OS X are you running?

[Nefesh]

Aheh sorry about the caps there.

As for "kernel panics", I, while being somewhat computer-knowledgable, know nothing of kernels. Could you pretty please break it down for a lesser mortal?

And yes, it seems as though internet-based apps are the only things crashing.

I'm currently running version 10.4.3.

[bgannin]

Sounds like a corruption or problem with WebKit, the system-level framework that powers Safari and other apps (such as Adium, Colloquy, etc.)

[Nefesh]

Sounds like a corruption or problem with WebKit, the system-level framework that powers Safari and other apps (such as Adium, Colloquy, etc.)

Okay...how should I go about taking care of this?

[bgannin]

I believe the 10.4.4 update includes an updated version of Safari/WebKit. You could install this update and see if it works. If not, you could delete the framework itself from /System/Frameworks/WebKit.framework and then run the update again, which would install the full file most likely... but I could be wrong. Safety first [back up everything!]

[Nefesh]

Much, much, much thanks- everything works!