ML: Safari quits itself some time after closing window

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ML: Safari quits itself some time after closing window

Hi everyone,

Unlike the crashes many other users have been experiencing my problem seems more subtle yet no less annoying. I observed that if I close my current Safari browser window (but not quitting it) then after some time the indicator light under the Safari icon would turn off. If I immediately check the Force Quit Applications list I would still see Safari on it, but if I wait a little longer Safari would indeed disappear from the list.

In short Safari seems to quit itself after I close the browser window. It's not like a crash since there's no unexpected closing of the browser window when I'm browsing websites. Neither do I get a crash report. Safari simply decides it should quit after I close my current browser window.

This is strange because closing a Safari window should not cause the application to quit completely unless I manually do so. I tried resetting Safari but I don't think it's making a difference either. Does anyone have a clue what's going on here 😕

Regards,

James

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, 15", 2012 model

Posted on Aug 6, 2012 4:26 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 6, 2012 6:17 AM in response to JamesMok

Try deleting the Cache.db...

Quit Safari then open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder

Type this exactly as you see it here: ~/LIbrary/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db

Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.

Relaunch Safari to test.

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JamesMok Author

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Aug 6, 2012 8:37 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thanks for your prompt reply. I tried deleting the cache file but unfortunately it didn't seem to solve the glitch for me... I start to wonder if this has something to do with Mountain Lion because when I was on Lion/ Snow Leopard this never happened.

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Answer 3

fane_j

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Sep 26, 2012 6:31 AM in response to JamesMok

Try googling "automatic termination".

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Answer 4

maxxi11

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Sep 28, 2012 9:41 AM in response to JamesMok

got similar probem, Safari 6.0 crashed everytime i tried to close a Tab. solution proposed by Carolyn Samit solved the problem!

thank you a lot Carolyn

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Answer 5

howwow

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Sep 30, 2012 7:47 AM in response to JamesMok

Hi all

I (started to) notice this "abnormality" too! At first I thought it was just me...

I would launch Safari and go into my Facebook for a while, sometimes I would leave the window or shrink/minimise the window to the Dock, other times I just close the window but leave Safari on.

After few hours I come back to discover Safari has quit, I would have to re-launch again, I thought I had previously quit the browser. But later on I'm quite sure I did, because the History was not cleared (I always clear History and Cache before I quit Safari for good)

Yes, I did not experience this before, it does not crash out or something, just "quietly quit" in the background.

Cheers

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Answer 6

Bazemore

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Oct 2, 2012 1:05 AM in response to howwow

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3672427?start=30&tstart=0

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