Safari NOT Opening!

Hello all!

Haven't been active here on the general forum for awhile.
Well I recently go this problem where I click on Safari
and it bounces...still no opening so I go to the menu bar
and want to click on Safari to Force Quit because I have the beach
ball.And this forces me to go to Force Quit under the  Symbol.

Any Ideas whats wrong...?

Thanks!

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.4), 2.0Ghz,1Gb,80Gb Hd, IpodTouch 8Gb

Posted on Sep 16, 2008 6:36 PM

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Sep 19, 2008 3:24 PM in response to applerulz

If your Safari won't open, one or more of the following procedures should fix it:


1. Go to Home/Library/Safari/ folder and remove the following two files:

• history.plist
• lastsession.plist

(Safari may not load properly If these two files are corrupted.)

2. Go to Home/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/ and remove the contents of that folder.

(These are just webhistory files and are not required for Safari to run. However, similar to preference files, problems can arise if they have become corrupt.)

3. Locate the cookies.plist file that's located in the Home/Library/Cookies/ folder and remove it.

(Again, faults in stored cookies may interfere with Safari's launch.)

4. Check whether any of your third-party internet plug-ins may be interfering with the launch of Safari by carefully moving them to the desktop (do NOT delete them at this stage). You can find these in two places:

Home/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ folder, and Global plug-ins are located in the Macintosh HD/Library/Internet Plug-ins/ folder.

Restart Safari and place them back in the correct folders, one at a time, closing and re-opening Safari each time. If you discover that one of them was causing the problem with launching Safari, trash it and download and install a fresh copy.

Sep 22, 2008 2:46 PM in response to Klaus1

Well before I read this post(Thank You So much for replying guys!)
I took Safari and deleted the whole app+any other files/folders involved with it.
So now I have tried to download the latest version of it at Apples Download page
with FireFox.It downloads fine but when I click on Install I "Agree" to the terms of use etc etc.But it then says "You Cannot Install Safari On This Volume(My HD)because it requires 10.5.2 even though I HAVE 1.5.5

Thanks,

Josh

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