Q: Safari freezes on startup Yosemite
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Oct 17, 2014 9:47 AMby Carolyn Samit,HelpfulHi ..
A Safe Mode boot deletes some system caches that can help after an OS X upgrade.
Top left corner of your screen click the Apple > Shut Down
After your Mac shuts down, wait 10 seconds, then press the power button.
Immediately after you hear the startup tone, hold down the Shift key. You should press the Shift key as soon as possible after you hear the startup tone, but not before.
Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple logo and progress indicator.
Then click the Apple top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click: Restart
Then try Safari.
If that doesn't help, it could be a third party plug-in that's causing Safari to crash.
Follow the instructions here.
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Oct 17, 2014 2:58 PMby mcoluccio88,So I just tried this and it worked for me: (typing this on Safari now!!!)
Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.
Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
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Oct 17, 2014 3:21 PMby flee671,Hi Carolyn,
Thank you! This solved my issue! Although on Yosemite it seems like there's no more startup sound. So what I did was once the screen turned on I pressed the Shift key and released it once the Apple logo showed up. It took a long time to start up (as it says on the Apple safe mode boot page) so I knew that work. Once it's up I restarted and everything's working great now. Been using Safari for a few hours now and no freezes. Thank you so much!
Or if this didn't work for others perhaps manually deleting cache.db as mcoluccio88 did would:
Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.
Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
Hope either of these methods would work for others. Thank you hive mind!
Frank
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Oct 17, 2014 8:23 PMby Linc Davis,Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then take one of the actions that you're having trouble with. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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Oct 18, 2014 1:32 PMby aarild,I think the OP may had his problem solved, but for me Safari still does not work after trying Carolyn Samit's suggestions.
A bit of the log that must have coincided with Safari going down is:
18.10.2014 22.25.34,414 sharingd[218]: 22:25:34.414 : Starting Handoff advertising
18.10.2014 22.25.43,224 sharingd[218]: 22:25:43.223 : Starting Handoff advertising
18.10.2014 22.25.52,548 sharingd[218]: 22:25:52.548 : Starting Handoff advertising
18.10.2014 22.26.00,264 Console[506]: Failed to connect (_consoleX) outlet from (NSApplication) to (ConsoleX): missing setter or instance variable
18.10.2014 22.26.00,340 sharingd[218]: 22:26:00.340 : Starting Handoff advertising
18.10.2014 22.26.00,355 SIMBL Agent[289]: warning: failed to get scripting definition from /Applications/Utilities/Console.app; it may not be scriptable.
18.10.2014 22.26.00,356 SIMBL Agent[289]: AppleEvents: Send port for process has no send right, port=( port:28935/0x7107 rcv:1,send:0,d:0 limit:5) (findOrCreate()/AEMachUtils.cp #526) com.apple.main-thread
18.10.2014 22.26.00,481 CalendarAgent[239]: Stream 0x7fb49371f1a0 is sending an event before being opened
18.10.2014 22.26.00,873 Console[506]: Performance: Please update this scripting addition to supply a value for ThreadSafe for each event handler: "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/SIMBL.osax"
18.10.2014 22.26.00,874 SIMBL Agent[289]: AppleEvents: Send port for process has no send right, port=( port:28935/0x7107 rcv:1,send:0,d:0 limit:5) (findOrCreate()/AEMachUtils.cp #526) com.apple.main-thread
18.10.2014 22.26.00,944 WindowServer[132]: CGXSetCIFilterValues: Invalid filter 0
18.10.2014 22.26.00,944 WindowServer[132]: CGXSetWindowFilter: Invalid filter 0
18.10.2014 22.26.02,341 sharingd[218]: 22:26:02.341 : Stopping Handoff advertising
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Oct 19, 2014 2:55 PMby ffrancois,I was facing problems with apple+F for a while and since Yosemite update safari was crashing or wasn't able to show the windows/tabs.
I was able to use safari normally after a restart without extensions (shift pressed during start) → and finally found that the old Glims extension was installed on my machine. I removed glims and everything is now working well.
