Lightroom Classic quits when editing images from a Ricoh Theta SC2 camera

"Problem is with Safari - it just won't register or sign-in correctly."

Right, I just looked into that. Seems there's been a longstanding bug using Safari with its default settings to log into the feedback forum:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/this-forum-does-not-work-in-safari?topic-reply-list[settings][filter_by]=all&topic-reply-list[settings][reply_id]=20574989#reply_20574989

Pretty bad on Adobe's part.

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Thanks for the response John. Unfortunately I can't seem to post anything on this forum despite registering to the site. I have registered and can see my Photoshop Family profile. I can sign in to the site, but when I try and post it still has the 'Sign In to Post' button. I click on it, go through the signin process and come back to the same point. I have absolutely no idea what is going on on this site...  

I suggest you post a bug report in the official Adobe feedback forum, where Adobe wants all bug reports and feature suggestions: 
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/categories/photoshop_family_photoshop_lightroom

Be sure to include the first ten lines of the menu command Help > System Info.  Provide all the details, rather than linking back to this thread -- experience shows that Adobe developers tend not to follow the links. I recommend you upload a sample image to Dropbox or similar and include the sharing link, and also provide a detailed description of the steps you took before it crashes. Even better would be a screen recording.

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