Invalid URL in Safari

Thanks Eric! You just saved me a lot of time. I was literally on hold with apple support when I ran across your solution on here, and immediately tried it and it worked in just a matter of seconds. Thanks again.

Eric, my daughter and I both have Mac OS X 10.6.8 and we keep having this problem over and over. Did you finally get help for this? If so please tell me.

Thanks

Kim

Eric, just stopping by to mention that I've had the same problem for the longest time, and was absolutely baffled by it. I even thought I had a virus or malware, and spent some bucks on anti-virus software. I spent a lot of time searching the internet for fixes and nothing worked, until I came across your post. I never would have come across the solution Apple customer support offered to you. Thanks to all of th hastle and fuss you had to endour, my own problem seems to be resolved. I chnaged the DNS addresses on my machine last evening and so far, so good.

Thanks!

Eric thank you, thank you, thank you. It worked perfectly!

I wanted to take some time to see if it was going to last and sure enough it has. It has been about 2 weeks and no invalid URL messages anymore. I can jump from site to site without errors. I do social media for a living and you wouldn't believe how much it slowed me down before. I would have to save everything I was doing and restart my computer at least 4 or 5 times a day.

You need to post this on YouTube. 🙂

Dewerd I am sure you will fine that everything is perfect with your computer now too. Eric you are the best!

Kim

With me it had become a chronic, hair-pulling, maddening problem. I'd have to reboot to get things straight again, but within fifteen minutes the problem would recur. With me it was usually Google and iGoogle and rarely other pages, but Google is my preferred search engine.

Never in a million years would I have thought of the solution presented to Eric. What a huge relief! It's been only a couple of days but everything seems to work fine still.

On a side note, this did not seem to have become a problem for me till I upgraded to 10.8. I wonder if that has somethign to do with it? It happened to my MacBook, too.

The YouTube video is a great idea.

A lot of people seem to be having this problem, Eric. You see queries about it all over the internet, and all sorts of responses suggesting fixes that don't fix anything. That's why I was so happy to come across your post.

And to date, everything is still working fine. Fingers crossed!

Wow thanks Eric! Your solution worked perfectly. This problem just popped up suddenly and has been extremely aggravating.

I also get these certificate issues especially from Facebook. I wonder if this fix will resolve that issue as well.

Is this a temporary fix? Even though your solution works, it seems weird that we have to do this just to visit popular websites.