My safari app will not quit. I can force quit and the app pops right back on. I have read everything I can find and I'm stuck as to what I've done wrong. Help, please.
I'm running Mohave 14.14.2 on an iMac from late 2015.
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
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Try Force Quit Safari from Activity monitor.
1. Click the Spotlight icon in the menubar.
2. Start entering Activity monitor in the search bar next to magnifying glass icon.
3. Click Activity Monitor
When Activity monitor window opens:
4. Enter safari in the search box at the top right corner. Select CPU if not already.
5. Select Safari under Processor Name.
6. Click Force Quit Safari X button.
7. Relaunch Safari holding the Shift key down.
Activity Monitor. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201464
This Malwarebytes program worked for me. I have spent the last day and a half trying to figure out why Safari would keep restarting after quitting and force-quitting and then after my computer went to sleep and I woke it back up, Safari would not respond to anything and I would have to hard restart my computer. The Malware bytes found 4 files that it put in quarantine and everything is back to working normal. Yay!
This Safari snafu started happening to me yesterday. Interestingly enough right after the wife used it. Downloaded the Malwarebytes program and it found 29(!) problems. Apparently the Safari restarting was one of them, because it fixed it. Thank you!
Eric THANK YOU SO MUCH. I did all the first steps you recommended and no joy. But I got the malwarebytes software and it found and corrected my problems.
I appreciate your efforts very much.
Malwarebytes worked here too been trying on and off for days trying to fix this plus a low memory warning when only Safari was open
If your Mac doesn't shut down, try Force Quit to close any apps that aren't responding. If that doesn't work, press and hold the power button until the Mac turns off.
Press and hold the power button to turn off your Mac only if it isn't responding. You'll lose unsaved changes to any documents that you have open.
Try control - clicking on the Dock icon and select Options. Then uncheck Keep in Dock. Reopen and quit Safari to see if the Dock icon will close.
I've tried this. It closes Safari, but the icon on the scrollbar is still highlighted. is this okay?
This didn't work for me.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Craig
You are welcome. Glad to help.
You are welcome.
You are welcome.
Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items. Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Clear History…. The down side is it clears all cookies. Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db and move it to the trash.
Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Quit/reopen Safari and test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.
Safari Corruption See post by Linc Davis
The Malwarebytes worked.
thank you very much,
Craig
safari app won't quit
