Safari shuts down when not in use

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Safari shuts down when not in use

Ever since Yosi, Safari shuts down after a period of time when the computer is not in use. It doesn't crash on me though. If I leave a safari window open on the desktop or in the dock it doesn't shut down. Or if I put the Mac to sleep safari will be active when I wake it.

However every time, I walk away from my Mac and return say after 30 min or so, I'll find that Safari has quit, i.e. no dot under it's dock icon and the application bounces once to launch.

Flash was installed, now isn't, no change, Any thoughts?

Posted on Jul 29, 2015 12:31 AM

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Answer 1

Eric Root

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Jul 29, 2015 7:28 AM in response to GATTMAN

Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items. Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Clear History and Web Site Data. The down side is it clears all cookies.Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library./Caches/com.apple.Safari/Caches.db and move it to the trash.

Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.

Safari Corruption See post by Linc Davis

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GATTMAN Author

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Jul 30, 2015 5:07 AM in response to Eric Root

Ok Eric I'll work through these suggestions and get back to you. Thanks mate🙂

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Eric Root

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Jul 30, 2015 6:16 AM in response to GATTMAN

You are welcome.

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GATTMAN Author

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Jul 30, 2015 2:41 PM in response to GATTMAN

Unfortunately no joy. None of your suggestions worked Eric. Safari still quits if there are no active windows running either on the desktop or in the doc😟 However again thanks for your post and suggestions

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GATTMAN Author

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Oct 10, 2015 6:52 PM in response to GATTMAN

Update. Even after installing El Capitan, Safari is still shutting down when not in use.

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GATTMAN Author

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Oct 25, 2015 1:30 AM in response to GATTMAN

The problem has resolved itself after updating to MacOZS 10.11.1

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GATTMAN Author

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Nov 5, 2015 9:25 PM in response to GATTMAN

Actually it wasn't Mac OS 10.11.1 that fixed the problem as it reoccured a few days ago. However I have no fixed it. It was Microsoft Auto Update for Office 2011 that was shutting down Safari. Once I set it to manually check for updates then did a restart the problem went away.

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GATTMAN Author

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Nov 10, 2016 12:04 AM in response to GATTMAN

Alas I am now running Sierra and safari still shuts down when not in use. frustrating to say the least.

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