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Can't click or type in safari address bar

Hello - I am unable to click or type into the Safari Address bar.

I took it to the Genius Bar & he said it might be malware. He ran AdwareMedic and did not find any malware. He then said to reinstall Yosemite OS 10.10.2...which I did, and am still unable to either click into (& therefore) type anything in the Safari address bar. This is particularly frustrating as I have to set Google as my home page (& always go back to the home page to search for anything / go to a specific website).

Hope someone has another fix.

Thanks!

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), 2.7Ghz i7

Posted on Feb 5, 2015 10:17 PM

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Gary Mumford

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Posted on Jan 27, 2016 2:50 AM

This worked for me. The problem only happened this morning for me. I tried rebooting, creating new user, deleting prefs and safe mode. but nothing worked util this solution... Thank you 🙂

Article here: http://9to5mac.com/2016/01/27/safari-on-ios-and-mac-crashing-today-for-many-user s-bug-related-to-safari-suggestions/

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dinky2

Level 1

26 points

Jan 27, 2016 5:54 AM in response to harpua23

Log out and log in your account. That worked for me

Jan 27, 2016 6:05 AM in response to harpua23

I found it was Google's home page which was somehow locking the address bar. I took Google out of my preferences as being my home page and all is now well...

PING11

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32 points

Jan 27, 2016 6:20 AM in response to Derek Erb

many thanks for that it worked for me.

Adrian

Jan 27, 2016 6:43 AM in response to Derek Erb

Derek's fix is the one that works! No malware or anything else people are suggesting. No need to login as guest/safemode, delete cache, history etc etc. It's a clearly a glitch in the MacOS search/spotlight part of Safari. Weird it's happened to many people on the same day. Hopefully there will be an update to fix the safari issue properly soon. 🙂

Jan 27, 2016 6:54 AM in response to f23creative

Yes. Worked for me as well. Thanks Derek.

Jan 27, 2016 6:55 AM in response to AndrewGlen

Thanks, Andrew.

It was as simple as unchecking that option in View.

Cheers! 🙂

Bill Soan

Level 2

196 points

Jan 27, 2016 6:58 AM in response to harpua23

Hi, I had the exact same problem after updating to 10.11.3 but Derek Erb's

suggestion answered the problem for me as well. Great, thanks Derek.

Safari - Preferences - Search tab
Turn off Include Safari Suggestions
Close and re-open Safari

Jan 27, 2016 7:36 AM in response to Derek Erb

Out of the blue, same issue about typing in the search box and your fix fixed it for me. Thank you.

Question is - why are we all getting it now?

Steve1812

Jan 27, 2016 8:16 AM in response to harpua23

Must be a bug, I had the same problem.

Jan 27, 2016 8:28 AM in response to harpua23

I agree... just this morning when I wasn't doing anything different than I do every morning, I couldn't type in a URL. Disabling the safari suggestions worked for me as well, but my question, what does that do when it is disabled?

Jan 27, 2016 8:31 AM in response to Gary Mumford

me too! What did Apple do last night that so many of us ran into this issue today?

Jan 27, 2016 9:57 AM in response to harpua23

Just go off a chat with Apple Support and they provided the following which resolved my issue.

To resolve this let’s Click Safari in the top left of the Mac and then > Preferences > Search, turn off search engine suggestions, safari suggestions, quick website search, and Preload Top Hit, then Quit and re-open Safari.

Thanks,

Jan 27, 2016 11:16 AM in response to harpua23

Worked for me! thanks

Feb 4, 2017 3:20 AM in response to harpua23

Go to System Preferences and check to make sure speak selected key when pressed is Not checked in Speech.

Can't click or type in safari address bar