Having trouble with certain Safari functions

Thanks, Klaus-

Interestingly, I'm able to reply to your post in Safari. The editing window showed up fine.

I have Java and Javascript enabled in the Safari preferences window. Is there more I would need to do?

My computer is a Macbook Pro 2GB edition from late 2009, I believe.

I'm running MAC OSX 10.7.2 and Safari 5.1.1.

I should also add that certain other "buttons" on web pages don't seem to work. I wish I could be more helpful explaining it.

I appreciate your help. I'm a bit of a lost cause on these topics!

Thank you, Linc. I am away from my laptop for the next few hours but I will follow your instruction and post the results later this evening.

Klaus, I wondered that about Garmin but according to their site they are fully updated.

Linc, I logged in as a guest and all of the buttons seemed to work fine - I didn't have an opportunity to try the Garmin but I can check that later tonight as well. Does the fact that things work in the guest account narrow down the potential problems?

Thanks again, both.

Thank you, Linc Davis. And thanks for such concise directions. Following your instructions produced the following. I replaced some identifying information with ***. I hope that doesn't mess you up. I'm not sure if you expected these steps to fix the problem or if you were hoping to see the output. For what it's worth, the problem seems to persist:

Last login: Thu Nov 3 17:02:22 on console

*****-**********-MacBook-Pro:~ Kevin$

*****-**********-MacBook-Pro:~ Kevin$ kextstat -kl | awk ' !/apple/ { print $6 $7 } '

*****-**********-MacBook-Pro:~ Kevin$ sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk ' !/0x|apple|com\.vix|edu\.|org\./ { print $3 } '

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss

or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your

typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:

com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper

*****-**********-MacBook-Pro:~ Kevin$ launchctl list | sed 1d | awk ' !/0x|apple|edu\.|org\./ { print $3 } '

com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.helperTool

com.google.keystone.user.agent

*****-**********-MacBook-Pro:~ Kevin$ ls -1A {,/}Library/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Sta}* 2> /dev/null

/Library/Components:

/Library/Extensions:

/Library/Frameworks:

AEProfiling.framework

AERegistration.framework

Adobe AIR.framework

AudioMixEngine.framework

NyxAudioAnalysis.framework

PluginManager.framework

TSLicense.framework

cisco-vpnclient.framework

/Library/Input Methods:

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins:

Flash Player.plugin

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.webplugin

GarminGpsControl.plugin

Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

Mathematica.plugin

Quartz Composer.webplugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

SharePointWebKitPlugin.webplugin

Silverlight.plugin

flashplayer.xpt

iPhotoPhotocast.plugin

nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt

/Library/LaunchAgents:

/Library/LaunchDaemons:

com.apple.remotepairtool.plist

com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

/Library/PreferencePanes:

Flash Player.prefPane

Flip4Mac WMV.prefPane

/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools:

com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper

/Library/QuickLook:

GBQLGenerator.qlgenerator

iWork.qlgenerator

/Library/QuickTime:

AppleIntermediateCodec.component

AppleMPEG2Codec.component

Flip4Mac WMV Advanced.component

Flip4Mac WMV Export.component

Flip4Mac WMV Import.component

/Library/ScriptingAdditions:

/Library/StartupItems:

Library/Address Book Plug-Ins:

SkypeABDialer.bundle

SkypeABSMS.bundle

Library/Input Methods:

.localized

Library/Internet Plug-Ins:

Move-Media-Player.plugin

Library/LaunchAgents:

com.google.keystone.agent.plist

com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.helperTool.plist

Library/PreferencePanes:

Thanks again, Lincdavis. I appreciate your time. Unfortunately the problems persists in safe mode as well.

I don't know if this means anything to you, but as it turns out: The "tags" in this forum work fine - for example, I can click on B above and get bold font. Or I can add a 😁

But in other places those buttons don't work and the other minor problems persist.

Linc Davis wrote:

Please boot in safe mode, log in as yourself, launch Safari, and test again. Same problem now?

Safe mode is slower than normal, and some things won’t work at all, possibly including wireless networking. If possible, connect to the Internet using an Ethernet cable. If you can’t test in safe mode, then perform a safe login: log out of your account without rebooting, enter your credentials at the login screen, then hold down the shift key and click the “Log in” button. Keep holding the key until the menu bar appears.

After testing, reboot or log out/log in as usual (i.e., not in safe mode.)

Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode

Thanks again for your patience helping me solve this, Linc. A weird outcome this time: I did the first steps - Removing the com.apple.safari and metadata/safari items. No luck...

Then I went to locat safari/bookmarks.plist and found it doesn't exist in libraries. Searching with spotlight, it doesn't seem to exist at all.

So I tried to find the next three and none of them (including Library/Safari) seem to exist either?!

No idea how that happened. If it means anything, I transferred all of these settings from an old IBook G4 - but that was 1.5 years ago.

Indeed I was going into the wrong library folder - the proper folder contained all the files and corrected my problem(s)! Thanks for your patience, Linc. I owe you a beer, a wine, a coke, an OJ...something.

Much appreciated. If you care to explain what was wrong, I'd be curious to hear.

Best-

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