Safari Crash on 2018 Intel MBP

[extrachrispy]

I searched, but was unable to find a thread depicting the problem I am having: Safari crashes 100% of the time within a few minutes of being launched, with a stack that always looks like this:

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000


Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 6 Abort trap: 6
Terminating Process:   Safari [17171]


Application Specific Information:
abort() called




Thread 0 Crashed::  Dispatch queue: create-voices-avspeech
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                0x7ff80aaa5d96 __pthread_kill + 10
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib               0x7ff80aadeebd pthread_kill + 262
2   libsystem_c.dylib                     0x7ff80aa04a79 abort + 126
3   libc++abi.dylib                       0x7ff80aa97922 abort_message + 241
4   libc++abi.dylib                       0x7ff80aa8a12a demangling_terminate_handler() + 266
5   libobjc.A.dylib                       0x7ff80a726b4a _objc_terminate() + 96
6   libc++abi.dylib                       0x7ff80aa96d7b std::__terminate(void (*)()) + 6
7   libc++abi.dylib                       0x7ff80aa96d36 std::terminate() + 54
8   libdispatch.dylib                     0x7ff80a93ddd0 _dispatch_client_callout + 28
9   libdispatch.dylib                     0x7ff80a94ad3c _dispatch_lane_barrier_sync_invoke_and_complete + 60
10  TextToSpeech                          0x7ff91e659e13 0x7ff91e639000 + 134675
11  TextToSpeech                          0x7ff91e659caf 0x7ff91e639000 + 134319
12  WebCore                               0x7ff90c1ea6b7 WebCore::PlatformSpeechSynthesizer::initializeVoiceList() + 119
13  WebCore                               0x7ff90de54838 WebCore::PlatformSpeechSynthesizer::voiceList() const + 24
14  WebKit                                0x7ff90f81eb3b WebKit::WebPageProxy::speechSynthesisVoiceList(WTF::CompletionHandler<void (WTF::Vector<WebKit::WebSpeechSynthesisVoice, 0ul, WTF::CrashOnOverflow, 16ul, WTF::FastMalloc>&&)>&&) + 33
15  WebKit                                0x7ff90fc82efa WebKit::WebPageProxy::didReceiveSyncMessage(IPC::Connection&, IPC::Decoder&, WTF::UniqueRef<IPC::Encoder>&) + 9216
16  WebKit                                0x7ff90fd3aaf4 IPC::MessageReceiverMap::dispatchSyncMessage(IPC::Connection&, IPC::Decoder&, WTF::UniqueRef<IPC::Encoder>&) + 268
17  WebKit                                0x7ff90f858e73 WebKit::WebProcessProxy::didReceiveSyncMessage(IPC::Connection&, IPC::Decoder&, WTF::UniqueRef<IPC::Encoder>&) + 41
18  WebKit                                0x7ff90fd36491 IPC::Connection::dispatchSyncMessage(IPC::Decoder&) + 177
19  WebKit                                0x7ff90fd367b7 IPC::Connection::dispatchMessage(std::__1::unique_ptr<IPC::Decoder, std::__1::default_delete<IPC::Decoder>>) + 489
20  WebKit                                0x7ff90fd3266c IPC::Connection::SyncMessageState::ConnectionAndIncomingMessage::dispatch() + 42
21  WebKit                                0x7ff90fd3801f WTF::Detail::CallableWrapper<IPC::Connection::SyncMessageState::processIncomingMessage(IPC::Connection&, std::__1::unique_ptr<IPC::Decoder, std::__1::default_delete<IPC::Decoder>>&)::$_5, void>::call() + 639
22  JavaScriptCore                        0x7ff827d1877e WTF::RunLoop::performWork() + 430
23  JavaScriptCore                        0x7ff827d1955a WTF::RunLoop::performWork(void*) + 26
24  CoreFoundation                        0x7ff80abbc087 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 17
25  CoreFoundation                        0x7ff80abbc029 __CFRunLoopDoSource0 + 157
26  CoreFoundation                        0x7ff80abbbdf4 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 215
27  CoreFoundation                        0x7ff80abbaa71 __CFRunLoopRun + 919
28  CoreFoundation                        0x7ff80abba112 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 557
29  HIToolbox                             0x7ff8155d9a09 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 292
30  HIToolbox                             0x7ff8155d9816 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 665
31  HIToolbox                             0x7ff8155d9561 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 66
32  AppKit                                0x7ff80e22a171 _DPSNextEvent + 880
33  AppKit                                0x7ff80eb3eaf0 -[NSApplication(NSEventRouting) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 1273
34  Safari                                0x7ff91a67490c -[BrowserApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 217
35  AppKit                                0x7ff80e21b585 -[NSApplication run] + 603
36  AppKit                                0x7ff80e1ef4f3 NSApplicationMain + 816
37  Safari                                0x7ff91aa50f84 SafariMain + 518
38  dyld                                  0x7ff80a753345 start + 1909

I've tried disabling all extensions, I've tried booting in safe mode, I've tried updating to Sonoma 14.7, and I've even tried an OS reinstall via CMD-R. None of them have cured the problem. I cannot find any hits for anyone else hitting this, and am at a loss. Does anyone have any ideas?

Additional info: Electron apps such as Slack also crash in voice synthesis, although the stack is not exactly the same. I do not have any VoiceOver or screen reader accessibility features enabled on this Mac.

 

[kitKAC]

If you create a new user account, does Safari crash in that?

 

[extrachrispy]

It does not.

 

[kitKAC]

So it's something in your Profile that's causing the problem. Have you tried starting Safari while holding down the SHIFT key?

 

[extrachrispy]

Still crashed.

I have a list of dylibs that get loaded, but figuring out how to get some of them to stop getting loaded is a problem, given that Safari does not stay up long enough for me to accomplish much.

 

[gebulin]

I encountered the same issue yesterday after upgrading Chrome to the latest version.

Digging one day, I found the solution:

How to fix Accessibility settings issue l… - Apple Community

discussions.apple.com

or the second method bellow:

Safari 17.5 Crashing: How To Fix [8 Possible Solutions]

Browsing issues are usually related to websites. But, in some cases, the browser itself is to blame. Here's how to fix Safari 17.5 crashes.

www.macobserver.com

On Finder, select Go > Go to Folder on the menu bar, and paste this path:

~/Library/Preferences
In this folder, delete the file called com.apple.SpeakSelection.plist. This should be enough to stop Safari — and other browsers — from misbehaving.

 

[extrachrispy]

Thank you!