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Safari won't launch
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Jan 7, 2003, 06:33 PM
 
When I open Safari, it consistently bounces for a while and then quits. I've repaired permissions on my startup drive, restarted, redownloaded, the whole works. Has anyone else had this problem?

'Unexpectedly quit' is beginning to become something of a misnomer.
(Last edited by MusicMan; Jan 7, 2003 at 10:51 PM. )
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Jan 7, 2003, 08:15 PM
 
it's a jag only app. are you running 10.1.5 or something older?
     
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Jan 7, 2003, 08:56 PM
 
I'm running a recent clean install of 10.2.3.
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Jan 7, 2003, 10:44 PM
 
I am having a similar problems only it is when I go to certain sites... It just shuts down. Maccentral and Shock are two sites it wont go to. I think Amazon was another. Must have something to do with java. I know it shows an error in the status bar at the maccentral site so it must just shut down when it finds errors. Its driving me nuts.

I have deleted prefs, fixed permissions etc etc.
I am running 10.2.3 on a MDD 867
     
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Jan 7, 2003, 11:45 PM
 
Maccentral works fine for me! Is there a particular URL in there that doesnt work? Have you sent in a bug report?
     
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Jan 7, 2003, 11:50 PM
 
I have sent several bug reports—and kind of given up on Safari for now. At least until I can get some kind of direction on what to do
     
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Jan 19, 2003, 08:38 PM
 
The EXACT same thing just started happening to me today. It will bounce about 3 time, the rainbow beachball will spin, and then the dialog will come up, "Safari has unexpectedly quit". I redownloaded and reinstalled too, same thing. I'm gonna trash some preferences and see what happens...

Good luck (and wish me some too!)
     
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Jan 19, 2003, 08:52 PM
 
Okay, I just got it. I trashed the history plist and tried to launch again, that didn't work, so I trashed my download plist, and it launched successfully.

Everything is back to normal, but I don't know why it happened in the first place.

Oh well, hope this works for you, too.
     
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Jan 19, 2003, 11:07 PM
 
Hey TimeOnMyHands,

How do you "trash your download plist"?

Safari now won't launch for me either. On the latest version of Jaguar here, but Safari "unexpectedly quits".

Help!!!! :o)
     
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Jan 19, 2003, 11:20 PM
 
Here is how I fixed it:

went to the Safari file in Library.

deleted the download plist.

and now its working fine again.
     
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Jan 20, 2003, 06:46 PM
 
Yep, that's how I did it, too. Glad it worked for you, too!
     
   
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