web inspector crashes in 5.1.4

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web inspector crashes in 5.1.4

In upgraded to Safari 5.1.4 last night. Now I have multiple crashes in web inspector. I want to look at the history.state object in the console, so I type history the the period and web inspector crashes.

I was debugging some javascript and part way through, web inspector crashes.

Web inspector did not do this with 5.1.3.

Being new to the Mac world. I have a MacBook Pro and would like to revert back to Safari 5.1.3 so I can complete my project. Does anyone know how I can revert to the previous version of Safari? I am unable to do my work.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Mar 14, 2012 2:22 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 14, 2012 2:52 PM in response to Tanny O'Haley

Hi Tanny ...

It's not possible to "revert" back to a previous Safari version 😟

Try something..

Go to ~/Library/Safari. Move the History.plist file to the Desktop.

Quit then relaunch Safari. Try the Web Inspector.

If that didn't help, move the History.plist file back to the Safari folder.

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Answer 2

Mar 14, 2012 5:55 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Hi Carolyn,

Sorry, that did not prevent web inspector from crashing. I quit Safari, then moved History.plist to my Desktop, restarted Safari and replicated the problem.

I'm willing to try just about anything.

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Answer 3

Mar 14, 2012 5:57 PM in response to Tanny O'Haley

Ok... try this.

Go to ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db

Move the Cache.db file to the Trash.

Quit then relaunch Safari to test.

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Answer 4

Mar 15, 2012 11:21 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Hi Carolyn,

Still didn't work. If I close down Safari, restart my computer, open Safari to the apple site, open web inspector and just try to type history.length web inspector crashes as soon as I hit the period.

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