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When I go to a website and click on a topic, Safari would always open on a new page with the original page left open. Now after viewing the new page, I can't go back to the main page! The back button doesn't work either, so I have to quit the page altogether. Apple... what on earth are you doing causing your loyal users so much frustration with Mavericks!
iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9)
No problems with Safari on v10.9 here ...
Might be an extension or plugin that's not compatible with Mavericks ..
From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test. If that helped, turn one extension on then quit and relaunch Safari to test until you find the incompatible extension then click uninstall.
If it's not an extensions issue, try troubleshooting third party plug-ins.
Back to Safari > Preferences. This time select the Security tab. Deselect: Allow all other plug-ins. Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that made a difference, instructions for troubleshooting plugins here.
Thank you, Carolyn. Went through the above procedures but unfortunately no joy. Safari 7 still not doing what it should. Would love it to work as well as Snow Leopard did. It did everything beautifully for me! Certainly regret making the 'upgrade' to Mavericks. Maybe the old saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" applies here. :-)) Have used Apple exclusively and enthusiasticly since the early 90's but have never had problems of this magnitude.
I don't believe I have any 3rd party plug ins that could be causing the problem. I have checked the troubleshooting page.
One other thing. Press the Widget button and the page now appears with a solid grey screen making it impossible to use the calculater with a desktop document. How do I get it to superimpose on the desktop as before? Probably a preference somewhere but couldn't locate it with a quick check.
Your help is appreciated.
don't believe I have any 3rd party plug ins that could be causing the problem. I have checked the troubleshooting page.
There's an easy way to find out.
As I mentioned previously, go to Safari > Preferences > Security
Deselect; Allow Plug-ins (it was Allow all other in the previous version)
Then quit and relaunch Safari to test.
Safari 7 is working pefectly fine for me on Mavericks. Maybe something to do with plugins as Carolyn has already suggested. Also try 'Reset Safari'
As said before, have done the Safari preferences changes to no avail. Have also reset Safari. No difference.
Anyone with ideas on the widget screen?
After reseting and dumping Safari 7's cache to no avail, I restarted the computer and zapped the pram (hold down command+option+p+r on restart) it seems to have fixed the page loading issue for me as well as improving overall machine speed after updating to Mavericks.
Safari use after updating to Mavericks
Again, nothing wrong at all with Apple's Safari 7 update, on my MBP running Mavericks, including browsing, creating widgets etc. Maybe a PRAM reset will work just like it did for the other poster.
Thanks Ravindra. Should have mentioned I have already reset PRAM and repaired permissions. The back button does work on some but not all all websites. For example, http://www.rense.com I would be interested to know if other Safari 7 users can access this site, go to a story, and then back to the main page using the back button (or arrow). I can't. Rense claims to be in the top 1% of all website visits, so it is not an obscure site.
Also, a bump for the grey screen background on the widgets. How do I get them to come on screen as a supered image, the same as my previous Safari?
The rense site seems to open every link in a new tab or window, depending on safari settings; so the back button isn't active, the new tab/window has to be closed manually (or at least switched from). That behaviour is the same in Safari 5.1.10 & Firefox, here.
Hi Andy. Appreciate your advice. However, on my spare 24" iMac I an running Safari 5.1.10. On this system, you click on any story on Rense and it opens as a new page leaving the site intact. You can then hit close and the main page is still open for futher browsing. Not so in Mavericks Safari 7!
So this is the problem... when you have read a particular article you are forced to close that story and leave the site when there are still hundreds of stories to view. You have to re-open the site every time. It's not the way it should work and not the way Snow Leopard's Safari worked.
I need to know how to keep the page open when you go to a link, the same as Safari 5.1.10 in Snow Leopard. Thanks.
You've edited your post, and I don't see how a newly opened page (window) would have a back button that did anything. Regardless, it works as expected (with a new tab or window for each link clicked, whioe the original remains in place), here in Safari 7.
Test in a new or Guest user account on your computer.
Let's start again and I'll try to keep the question simple.
Could someone from this forum please tell me if, when I visit a site and click on a link, the original page can remain open the way it does in Snow Leopard's Safari 5.1.10. It will not do this in Mavericks Safari 7.
Guest user has no effect. Thanks in anticipation.
>>...please tell me if, when I visit a site and click on a link, the original page can remain open the way it does in Snow Leopard's Safari 5.1.10...
With most sites, what you want isn't normal - if you visit say Apple.com & click any link, the page will change. not stay open. If your Safari 5.1.10 opens a new window or tab instead, there's likely an add-on or Safari extension there which is responsible.
For example - http://canisbos.com/linkthing can be setup to do that.
With most sites, what you want isn't normal -
Andy... with all due respect, that's not correct. What I want IS normal!
Lets take another news source like Mail Online, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
I go there, click on a news story, read the story in a new window and the back button takes me back to the main page. IT WORKS! That is the way most world news sites operate.
Point I'm trying to make is that Safari 7 won't do that on sites like Rense and others I have tried. It seems to work on some but not on others. And Snow Leopoard's Safari works fine on ALL stites.
A good example : it is not normal for most links at dailymail.co.uk to open in a new tab/window. I tested without any add-ons in a fresh Guest account, on both Firefox & Safari... click a story, opens in the same window/tab. Point I already made, is that if your Safari 5 does different, something's causing that - either a site setting/cookie (check as a guest user w/o sugning in) or an add-on/extension/plug-in.
Mavericks problems with Safari 7
