Phantom Safari Plug-In?

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Phantom Safari Plug-In?

I installed a video application which apparently used a Safari Extension of some kind. The application didn't do what I wanted, so I used its own "remove" program to remove it. But now I get an error message whenever I start Safari:

"Safari 5.1 has not been tested with the plugin VideoboxSafariPlugin.bundle (null) (v1.4). As a precaution, it has not been loaded. Please contact the plugin developer for further information."

The problem is, there's no such plug-in, as far as I can tell. Loading the plugin list reveals nothing by that name, searching the hard drive reveals nothing by that name, either. I checked contents as well as file names. VideoboxSafariPlugin.bundle does not exist as far as I can tell.

I also looked for plug-ins with today's dated as a date modified. The only one is the Quicktime Plug-In. Maybe I need to reinstall Quicktime, assuming that the video software installer edited it for some reason?

Any thoughts? I really want to get rid of that error message and delete whatever's ailing Safari.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Sep 7, 2011 1:05 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 7, 2011 1:32 PM in response to KevinGarnett

First, check Safari / Preferences - Extensions. If it's there, delete it.

If you don't see it in the Extensions pane, try the paths you see here >

Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
/Library/Input Methods/
/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/ScriptingAdditions

~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
~/Library/Input Methods/
~/Library/InputManagers/
~/Library/ScriptingAdditions

Same plugin issue here > http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=473842

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Answer 2

Linc Davis

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Sep 7, 2011 2:42 PM in response to KevinGarnett

It's a SIMBL plugin. I highly recommend that you uninstall SIMBL and everything that depends on it. It's bad news.

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Answer 3

andyBall_uk

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Sep 7, 2011 3:14 PM in response to KevinGarnett

for just Simbl - there's an uninstaller included in the download at http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php

but maybe you installed this ?- http://www.tastyapps.com/faq.html?product=videobox & should use their uninstaller, for which you have to launch the app again 🙂 and use uninstall from the main Videobox menu.

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Answer 4

KevinGarnett Author

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Sep 7, 2011 3:20 PM in response to andyBall_uk

I've had Videobox installed for years, so I'm not sure why it suddenly started generating an error message just as I UNinstalled an apparently unrelated application (it was iSkySoft's Free Video Downloader that created the issue today), but that's what happened.

I found another thread here with the same problem:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2111061

And the directory they suggested there was where it was (why it didn't show up in a Spotlight search I really don't know).

File deleted, Safari happy.

Thanks everyone!

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