psafari 3.0.4 beta crashes iimmediately after opening it on XP pro

1) Uninstall Safari.
2) Delete folder *C:\Program Files\Safari*
3) Delete or rename profile folder: *C:\Documents and Settings\XXXXXX\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari*, where XXXXXX is your account name.
4) Delete or rename temporary profile folder: *C:\Documents and Settings\XXXXXX\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari* , where XXXXXX is your account name.
5) Install the new Safari 3.0.4.

I have the same problem like farsheed but it won't be solved by deleting all these directories.

Current version: AppVer: 3.523.12.9 ModName: webkit.dll

After reinstall safari it still crashes after startup. Is there any other way to keep safari running?

Same problem over here: Up until now no problems with 3.0.3 on my XP platform.
Now first did an upgrade (install over 3.0.3) - crash.
Following the advise here I moved those directories pointed out in this thread aside, uninstalled safari, ran some registry cleaning software to get rid of some leftovers, rebooted and reinstalled 3.0.4 again but it still crashes.

Funny thing is that it works flawlessly on my Vista system (business computer).

Hope someone out here has the real solution to this problem as I prefer Safari above any other browser.

I have the same problem. It's a clean install of Safari 3.0.4, and I can't even open it.

Report:
AppName: safari.exe AppVer: 3.523.12.9 ModName: webkit.dll
ModVer: 3.523.12.9 Offset: 0008a039

i had the same problem, and i did everytying i could think of, but nothing worked. so i decided to do a system restore to the point just before i installed it and i have the old safari back. it's better than nothing i guess.

I had the same problem - 3.0.4 crashed on startup for me.

I followed the steps outlined above, plus I used add/remove programs to uninstall "bonjour" then downloaded and ran the 3.0.4 installer and now it's running for me

I tried all that and it still didn't work. I uninstalled Safari, deleted those folders, uninstalled Bonjour and then I restarted and tried to install again and still got the error.

I've ran out of ideas 😟 Please report this crash bug to http://bugreport.apple.com with crash report attached. Hopefully Apple developers will find solution for this crash.

OK, so I really don't know what I did, but it's working now. I think something might be messed up with Bonjour because I didn't check it off now and it works. I had done that before, but that was before I had uninstalled Bonjour. It's all very confusing, but I guess it's working now.

I have tried the folder deletion workaround and can report that it doesn't work for me either.

I didn't have Bonjour installed, so tried installing Safari with it. Just the same - crashes each time.

I'm now rolling back to 3.0.3.

I know it's Beta but does Apple do any basic testing before they put these changes out?

David.

Just for info... got the same crash after I rolled back to 3.0.3. Followed the workaround of deleting the folders and uninstalling Bonjour. Now it works.

David.

Well .... I'm glad for you but it still crashes over here.

Here's what I did:

- Uninstalled Safari
- Uninstalled Bonjour
Moved Safari directories aside in "<user>/Local Settings/Application Data/Apple Computer" and "<user>/Application Data/Apple Computer"
- Rebooted system and removed "Safari" directory in "C:\Program Files"
- Reinstalled Safari 3.0.4
- Started Safari again (noticed that it indeed does not use the homepage I have set before so it indeed is not using my old safari configuration anymore but the default settings instead) -> after 5 second the "Safari Web Browser has encountered a problem ...." window pops up. All I can do now is push either "Send Error report" or "Don't Send", in both cases it will cause the browser to crash (leaving it running in the background however as I still see a Safari.exe listed in the Task Manager after wards.

Strange thing about this all is that as long as I don't push those two buttons in the pop-up window (Send or don't send an error report) Safari still remains responsive, in fact I'm typing this answer right now in my already "crashed" safari, having the popup window moved aside to the corner of the screen.

Seems not Safari itself is crashing but another process, causing the GUI to exit as soon as I exit the popup window.