Safari. Safari is unable to open

It won't necessarily answer your question but I assume this is a continuation of your previous thread. That being so, the storm you mentioned would have been most unlikely to have affected one aspect of your machine like that. From what I see, it is amazing how often Faceook is involved when things go wrong.

Have you tried disabling / uninstalling Facebook, checking Safari and if it works, re-installing Facebook.

And is your Safari version the latest for your particular machine / OS and not been open to an update recently.

If this is a continuation of another discussion, can you provide a link to the previous discussion so people know what has been tried?

Good afternoon Eric,

This is the one I found and was referring to.

Safari cannot open page.: Apple Support Communities

Try downloading Firefox and see if you can get on Facebook with that browser. That would allow you to stay on Facebook while you troubleshoot Safari.

Firefox

Thank you seventy one.

Yes; best to use Firefox. Don't go to Chrome.

What's your OS X version ?, and are you opening Safari from the main /Applications folder ?.

Does Software Update work & show nothing available ?.

Your first post suggested that secure sites do work : https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-29.0.1-SSL&os=osx&lang=en-US

Are you using any anti virus or 'security' software ?.

Does Safari or Firefox work normally in a new or Guest user account ?.

Mac OS X 10.6: Creating a new user account

Mac OS X 10.6: Creating a guest user account

Try these :

Mac OS X 10.6: Creating a new user account

Mac OS X 10.6: Creating a guest user account

but note that Sophos has been implicated in very similar sounding problems recently : I would test after uninstalling that & AVG.

If your Safari is 5.0.3 then you need this :

Safari 5.1.10 for Snow Leopard

Before you completely uninstall Sophos, see if turning both of these to off is the fix.

Also check to see if you are running the latest Sophos 9.0.11 and not version 8.x.x