Q: Extensions - Can't see INSTALL NOW button in Safari 9
The Install Now button is not visible in the Safari Extensions Gallery. So I cannot install any extensions.
I'm using Safari 9 and El Capitan.
I noticed in a previous discussion labelled: "Extensions - Can't see INSTALL NOW button" the same thing.
Am I having the same .plist problem? IF NOT please advise.
Thanks.
2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.4), null
Posted on Oct 2, 2015 9:00 AM
I fixed it!
I used a terminal command to check which files were being accessed when visiting the Extensions Gallery in my user folder. The only one that stood out was 'com.apple.security.plist', which upon investigation has to do with the keychain. After some experimentation didn't get me anywhere, I navigated to my user account's Keychains folder — Users/yourusername/Library/Keychains — folder in my home folder, went for the nuclear option of deleting everything in there and restarted. After that, I opened Safari and it popped up with the 'Your extensions have been migrated' message, which I took as a good sign (even though I already had extensions installed and running previously).
I've installed a couple of extensions and they work perfectly. Hope this works for you, David! Obviously, you should definitely back up the contents of that folder manually or with Time Machine before deleting it in case you lose anything important. Items can be dragged from one keychain to another, so the contents of it can be copied over to the newly created login keychain if necessary. iCloud Keychain sync some stuff but it misses a lot of stuff too.
Posted on Oct 10, 2015 4:42 PM
