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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Oct 29, 2013 5:43 PM in response to Neal Jackson

This version of safari is a trainwreak. On 3 different comptuers, all using mavs, safari is broken. It stop loading sites, it will not load things with CSS like github and twitter properly (i get just raw sites with no css markup), I fire up chrome and FF and the same exact sites load perfectly much faster than in safari. Did I mention that it seems twice as slow on sites that it does actually load?


It's pretty much unusable for me, I've been forced to finally move over to chrome.


FIrst Apple screwed up maps in ios, now they killed Safari in OSX, I'm really suprised they can let software like this out.


Oh, and they ruined the bookmarks buton- *** is that supposed to be doing now- I can't even edit the bookmarks anymore in that view.

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