Safari closes immediately after application launch
Safari closes immediately after application launch
I've read through as many fixes for this as I can find, including removing the entire Safari folder within the ~/Library folder, starting up in Safe Mode, and creating a 2nd admin account (Safari works fine on that one, if that's a clue for anything); MacOS shows no updates available. Safari still crashes within a second of its windows appearing.
I'm mostly stumped by how Safari knows what windows I had open the last time it crashed if I've removed all the Preference, Cache, etc. files from the Library. Every time I open it, it presents the exact same pair of windows (the main browser window with several tabs open and the Preferences window showing the Manage Website Data... button).
Running First Aid on the drive has yet to reveal any issues. When I open the Get Info Finder window for the Safari app, it does show something I've never seen before: 4 lines in the Sharing & Permissions section:
everyone - Custom
system - Read & Write
wheel - Read only
everyone - Read only
I don't think there should be two "everyone"s. And trying to delete the one that's deletable (wheel) produces a pop-up that says I don't have privileges to do so (even though I'm Admin).
Doing a file search on my Mac reveals several other Safari-related folders and files, but I'm not sure which I should start trying to remove. Most are related to "Frameworks" and "LaunchAgents."
iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 12.6