Why is Safari not opening on my Mac but Chrome is?

denny2756 wrote:

Thanks. I tried. No luck.

unplug all non-essential  peripherals when testing

Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS

To trouble shoot further you can:

 —A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.

Login and test. Reboot  as normal and test.  Caches get rebuilt automatically.

This test will tell you if third party interference; most extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode. 

—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support

 This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 

***if you have a wireless keyboard with rechargeable batteries connect the charging cable before booting to Safe Mode.  

       This will make it act as a wired keyboard and will result in a successful Safe Boot mode.

denny2756 wrote:

I am having problems in that safari will not open on my mac but chrome will why?

Am I able to correct this?

Good question...

Try holding the Shift key down when you launch the Safari.app and see if you get any further.