Missing Address Bar

Turn off Extensions if any, and launch Safari.

Safari > Preferences > Extensions

Start up in Safe Mode.

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212

From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Security tab.

Deselect: Allow al other plug ins

Quit and relaunch Safari to test.

If that made a difference, instructions for troubleshooting plugins here.

Right click on the Toolbar and deselect "Hide Toolbar", if it is selected.

Anti virus software installed? MacKeeper?

At least it's just your user account and not a system wide issue. That's part is good.

There's a way to show what plugins, enhancers, etc., are installed that may be causing the address bar issue.

Click here > Etresoft: EtreCheck

Then click Download. Then go to your Downoads folder and double click double click the Etrecheck.app

Copy and paste the results from the EtreCheck window in your Reply. No personal data is shared.

From the Safari menu bar, select

Safari ▹ About Safari

What is the version number?

I'm going to assume that you know how to use Safari and that this is a real malfunction, not user error. I'm also assuming that all the facts are as you've stated. If those assumptions are wrong, what follows will be a big waste of time.

Read this whole message before doing anything.

Back up all data.

Quit Safari if it’s running. Then select

 ▹ Force Quit…

from the menu bar. A small window will open with a list of running applications. Safari may appear in that list, even though you quit it. If so, select it and press return. Close the window.

Step 1

In the Finder, press the key combination shift-command-A to open the Applications folder. Select the Safari icon in that folder and press the key combination command-I to open the Info window. There’s a checkbox in the Info window labeled Open in 32-bit mode. Uncheck it, if checked. Close the Info window and the Applications folder.

If Adobe Flash Player is installed, select

 ▹ System Preferences ▹ Flash Player ▹ Advanced

and click Delete All. Close the preference pane.

Hold down the option key and select

Go ▹ Library

from the Finder menu bar. Delete the following items from the Library folder (some may not exist):

• Caches/com.apple.Safari
• Caches/com.apple.WebKit.PluginProcess
• Caches/com.apple.WebProcess
• Caches/Metadata/Safari
• Preferences/com.apple.WebKit.PluginHost.plist
• Preferences/com.apple.WebKit.PluginProcess.plist
• Saved Application State/com.apple.Safari.savedState

Leave the Library folder open. Try Safari again. If it works now, stop here. Close the Library folder. If you still have problems, continue.

Step 2

Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:

open $TMPDIR../C

Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).

Quit Safari again. Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.

Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). A folder should open. Delete the following items from the folder, if they exist:

• com.apple.Safari
• com.apple.WebProcess+com.apple.Safari

Quit Terminal. Close the folder. Launch Safari and test.

Step 3

If Safari still doesn’t work right, quit, go back to the Finder and move the following items from the open Library folder to the Desktop (some may not exist):

• Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies
• Internet Plug-Ins
• Preferences/com.apple.Safari.LSSharedFileList.plist
• Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
• Preferences/com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist
• Preferences/com.apple.WebFoundation.plist
• PubSub/Database
• Safari

(Note: you are not moving the Safari application. You’re moving a folder named “Safari.”)

Try again. This time Safari should perform normally, but your settings and bookmarks will be lost. The default set of bookmarks will be restored. Delete them all.

If the issue is still not resolved, quit Safari again and put all the items you moved to the Desktop back where they were, overwriting the newer ones that may have been created in their place. You don’t need to replace the files you deleted in step 1. Stop here and post again.

If Safari is now working normally (apart from the lost settings), look inside the “Safari” folder on the Desktop for a file named “Bookmarks.plist”. Select

File ▹ Import Bookmarks

from the Safari menu bar. Import from that file. Recreate the rest of your Safari settings. You can then delete the items you moved to the Desktop.

Note: This step will remove your Safari Extensions, if any, and their settings. If you choose to restore them, do so one at a time, testing after each step to make sure you haven’t restored the problem.

If you don’t like the results of step 3, you can undo it completely by quitting Safari and restoring the items you moved or deleted in that step from your backup, overwriting any that were created in their place.

Dashlane.plugin

Picasa.plugin

Check ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins and /Library/Internet Plug-Ins

Move the Dashlane.plug in to the trash. Quit and relaunch Safari to test.

If the address bar is still missing, move the Picasa.plugin to trash, quit and relaunch Safari to test again.