Can't type in address bar

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Can't type in address bar

Suddenly tonight, I can't type more than one character in the address bar in Safari without causing the application to hang. I'm running under Vista Home Premium, SP2, and I uninstalled and then reinstalled the latest version of Safari to see if that was the problem. I consistently find that I can start Safari and browse to links in my favorites bar (or whatever Safari calls it) but if I attempt to enter a URL in the address bar the application hangs after the first character and the only way out is to kill the app in the Task Manager. It used to work. Any ideas as to what might cause this behavior?

PC, Windows XP Pro

Posted on Jun 26, 2009 7:25 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 26, 2009 7:28 PM in response to tripap

HI and Welcome to Apple Discussions...

In the Safari Menu, click Edit/Reset Safari. Check all the buttons and click Reset. Takes a few minutes. Restart your computer and try using the address bar.

Carolyn 🙂

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Answer 2

tripap Author

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Jun 27, 2009 6:46 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thanks for your response, but I've tried exactly that, with no improvement in the situation. It's really odd, because I have Safari installed on other computers, and they don't display the same problem. I need to check to be sure that the version is the same on all machines, and if it is, I've got an issue with a particular computer that is really puzzling. I've already tried uninstalling Safari and then installing the latest version, and the result was the same. I can't imagine what could cause Safari, in particular, to choke up when I start to type something in the address bar. None of the other browsers have any such issues.

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Answer 3

Jun 27, 2009 8:50 PM in response to tripap

Ok..

Click Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup.

Select all the boxes under: Files to Delete and click the OK button. When it's finished, restart your computer.

See if that helps.

🙂

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Answer 4

tripap Author

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Jul 2, 2009 1:31 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

I did a lot of cleanup with no improvement, so then I uninstalled Safari 4.0 and installed Safari 3.1, which I still had available. It works just fine. So there is some incompatibility between the latest version (Safari 4.0) and this computer that is still a mystery. I have two other computers, one running XP SP3 and the other running Vista Ultimate SP2 that work fine with Safari 4.0. I wish there were some way to see just what's happened to cause Safari to become nonresponsive, but I've found nothing that I could understand. When the hang-ups happen events are recorded in my Event log (see below).

- System

- Provider

[ Name] Application Hang

- EventID 1002

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 2

Task 101

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2009-06-28T01:52:24.000Z

EventRecordID 17355

Channel Application

Computer chopin

Security

- EventData

Safari.exe
4.530.17.0
1954
01c9f790cbdbe3ad
59
55006E006B006E006F0077006E0000000000

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Binary data:

In Words

0000: 006E0055 006E006B 0077006F 0000006E
0008: 0000

In Bytes

0000: 55 00 6E 00 6B 00 6E 00 U.n.k.n.
0008: 6F 00 77 00 6E 00 00 00 o.w.n...
0010: 00 00 ..

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