Mavericks Safari 7 is badly broken - Help!

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Neal Jackson Author

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Mavericks Safari 7 is badly broken - Help!

Since updating to Mavericks the version of Safari installed, 7.0 (9537.71), is behaving absolutely terribly.

Preferences menu will not load unless selected several times.

Page loading is crawling.

Some pages where I manually type the url will not load at all.

Back/Forward buttons do not work.

Open link in new tab doesn't work.

Open link in new window doesn't work.

Extensions downloaded do not appear in the Extensions pref page (though the components are in the requisite folder).

Numerous crashes and non-response glitches.

This very, very buggy version of Safari has made this update of OS X the worst I've ever experienced.

Is there a way of doing a clean install of Safari 7 or the entire Mavericks update from Mountain Lion 10.8.5?

Thanks for any help/suggestions/advice.

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 3:24 AM

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Answer 1

luke70

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Oct 23, 2013 3:45 AM in response to Neal Jackson

I thought the same. Then I restarted. Everything smooth and quick again now 🙂

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Neal Jackson Author

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Oct 23, 2013 4:04 AM in response to luke70

I've re-started several times and still Safari is badly broken. I hate that there are no separate installers for Safari or Mavericks

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Oct 23, 2013 4:42 AM in response to Neal Jackson

Do you have Glims Safari extention installed, if so download the uninstaller, quit safari, uninstall and relaunch safari, I had the same list of issues and uninstalling Glims fixed it for me.

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jknn

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Oct 23, 2013 5:28 AM in response to Neal Jackson

I have a lot of problems as well, why is there no "reinstall" function?

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khagse

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Oct 23, 2013 5:29 AM in response to Neal Jackson

http://www.machangout.com/node/9 Download link to get rid of Glims. Made my day.

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jknn

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Oct 23, 2013 5:31 AM in response to khagse

Did not help.

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khagse

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Oct 23, 2013 5:39 AM in response to jknn

do you know if Glims was installed at any time on your machine?

What happens if you start in Safe Mode (shut down, power on, after sound press shift. boot will take long. after log-in, start safari and check behaviour)

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silverk_

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Oct 23, 2013 6:38 AM in response to khagse

uninstalling Glims helped me. Thank You!

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Oct 23, 2013 7:34 AM in response to Neal Jackson

I figured out my same problem! I had Glims installed. If you do also, try this.

You can download an uninstaller here:

http://www.machangout.com/node/9

After you mount it, and click the uninstaller, it says it won't work because it's an unidentified developer. So you have to right click and do Open, and then it will give you the option to open.

After I uninstalled it, Safari 7.0 works fine!

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bjtb

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Oct 23, 2013 9:18 AM in response to khagse

same here.. kickin' Glims saved me from insanety

🙂

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ssweales

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Oct 23, 2013 9:54 AM in response to Neal Jackson

I have been on the phone all day to Apple, and they have run a data capture on machine to try and determine what is happening. They are puzzled at the moment. :-(

I am having the same problems - can't open tabs, close tabs, close dialogs - really terrible experience, in fact it is unusable. I have tried everything including a complete re-install of Mavericks to no avail. Everything else seems fine, just Safaro is completed hashed up!

Support will will getting back to me in a few days, but for now I just can't use Safari! =(

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ssweales

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Oct 23, 2013 9:58 AM in response to toadstonemusic

Just tried the Glims removal - worked a treat!! :-)

Will let the Apple Support contact know too.

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jrnavid

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Oct 23, 2013 10:51 AM in response to Neal Jackson

My Safari 7.0 isnt even opening. Its crashes right away on opening. The window doesnt even open. It send me straight to the error page and never opens.

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Oct 23, 2013 12:04 PM in response to Neal Jackson

I just used Glims removal and STILL can not open tabs or close dialogs. Safari is just hanging still. Anyone else still experiencing issues after using Glims?

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khagse

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Oct 23, 2013 12:18 PM in response to blackhawk_01

did you try to boot in safe mode? shut down. start and press shift. boot sequenze takes time. log in. start safar and check if same result. post result here.

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