Safari freezes when typing in address bar

Hi

Typing in the URL window triggers prompts, matching what you are typing. If Safari freezes, then a corrupted file may be at play. This can include Safari's cache, history, metadata and/or bookmarks files.

Try this: first, go to your Finder: There, go to your User Account>Library>Caches. Move to the trash the com.apple.Safari file and the Bookmarks folder in Caches>Metadata>Safari folder. Next, same library, go to the Safari folder, moving to the trash the History.plist file. Now restart Safari and try the URL window.

You're welcome. Glad to help.

Now to watch which site my son went to too cause the problem.

Now if only there existed a reset button for children. 😉

Mahalo for the and Aloha from Big Island.

Many thanks for your helpful suggestions; MAC discussions are dominated by helpful and polite people thankfully. I will remember that important tip re resolved versus unresolved threads.

If I may, for the benefit of any one stumbling across this with a similar problem, here is how eventually I resolved it. I spent abut 40 minutes with Apple Care on this and we tried a lot of things - emptying caches, reinstalling Safari, repairing permissions, verifying disk. Nothing seemed to work. Ultimately, it was faster and easier to erase the account (ensuring any important files were safe) and just recreate it. Of course, this is not a great option for everyone, in my case, as there was little that needed saving on the second account, it was faster. I am still curious as to the origin of the problem.

Cheers

I tried your suggestions as I have the exact same problem with my child's account but that has not fixed the problem. Any other ideas?

*Hi Stan, Welcome (Back)* to Apple's Users Help Users Forums. 🙂

This is an old solved thread. You will get better service as you deserve by posting a new thread.


Good Luck, JP 🙂