safari cannot open local html file

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safari cannot open local html file

Hi everybody,

I am running Mavericks (10.9.3) on a Mac Mini. Beginning recently, my Safari 7.0.3 (9537.75.14) cannot open local html files. When I try to open a local html file, it redirects me to "top sites". I updated the system (from 10.9.2 to 10.9.3) and it did not help. This appears to be a fairly recent symptom and I tried googling around without much luck.

Anyone experienced the same thing before or can offer some advice?

Thank you!

Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)

Posted on May 21, 2014 9:59 AM

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cooldog Author

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May 21, 2014 10:45 AM in response to cooldog

As I look further, it seems that any non "http://" stops working, including "mailto:", "file://", "ftp://".

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Jun 25, 2014 5:46 AM in response to cooldog

i am having the same issue with my macbook air

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jonjmp

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Jul 17, 2014 6:13 AM in response to Community User

I have this problem on an iMac. It just started a few days ago. I just looked in my Safari Preferences/Extensions and saw an extension there called "Searchme" ( from http://www.spigot.com). I don't know how it got there, but I turned it off and all is now well 😉

Hope this works for you!

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joseelt

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Jul 17, 2014 1:58 PM in response to jonjmp

I had the same situation as jonjmp. It was very helpful, thank you!

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PDXIII

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Feb 18, 2015 4:23 AM in response to jonjmp

Thank you for figuring this out! Had the same problem. Wonder how that extension came into my Safari?!

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Aug 15, 2016 12:10 AM in response to cooldog

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I have an perfect answer.

For Mac:

Goto Text Edit > Preferences. Then under 'New Document', select 'Plain text'. And under 'Open and save', Check both 'Display html file as html code' and 'Display RTF file as RTF code'. Uncheck 'Add ".txt" ' option.

Then save your html code in TextEdit in .html format.

This should work for Chrome and Safari.

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