Can't type anything on Safari's address bar after El Capitan update

Yep, same problem to my iMay. I updated Safari a week ago and this morning – without changing a thing since I finished working yesterday evening – I couldn’t type nothing in the bar above. Reboot or else doesn’t helped … sometimes text is doubled as described before. Very annoying!

The Safari version I have is 9.0.3, and my OS is 10.10.5

I copied a safari 9.02 version from a backup to Applications and 9.02 works correct. 9.03 is buggy. Same issues like you had. Hope for a fix. But use 9.02 in the meantime.

hope that helps - Even using 9.02 is not working anymore - sorry no solution. Using Chrome now.

Anthony

It seems a regression of the last update (9.0.3 (11601.4.4))

To make it working do the following:

Safari --> Preferences --> Search tab --> uncheck ALL checkboxes

Close and restart Safari.

It worked for me.

Then I enabled again the first checkbox (closed and restart Safari) in order to have the search engine within the address bar.

Hope it helps.

Same problem here, after upgrade to safari 9.0.3 (on 10.10.5). Opening Safari 9.0.1 did not help! No extensions.

Switching to Firefox or Chrome, in wait for an 9.0.4😟

The same is happening on my computer and on 2 other computers at the office as well. No autofill when you start Safari and after you went to one page, the address bar is bugged and you cannot go to anything else anymore.

Some information that might be useful:

• No problems in other browsers
• Same problem on different computer-accounts
• I upgraded to 10.11.3 a week ago. This morning the problem occured for the first time on my machine and on two other machines at the office as well. Yesterday the 3 machines worked fine. This morning when they where tuned on, they had the issue. So what happened this night?
• Bug occures on different versions of OS X (10.10 and 10.11) and so on different versions of Safari (8.0.8, 9.0.3)
• I deleted cache, turned of extensions, deleted history, cache, plist and the whole safari-folder in Library. Still the same issue.

Update. More computers infected at the office. We have a Mac-only environment and I start to hear more people complaining about the issue.

The search tab, unchecking worked for me! Thnx🙂

That seems to do the trick! Thanks!

I have the same problem. I just updated El Captain. Before Safari worked. In the meantime....I use firefox...but you should solve the problem soonish.

Same problem here....

As of this morning all of our computers can't use Safari!

Hi All,

Have just started to experience the issue that when i click in the address bar safarai closes with an application error.

I am running version 9.0.2 and have never experienced this issue before now. I can access my bookmarked address that are in the menu bar but as soon as i click in the bar, safari crashes.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Gary

Disable "Include Safari Suggestions" then quit Safari. That has just worked for me.

Thanks – unchecking the search boxes solved the problem for now :-)

I have the exact same issue - anyone have any idea how to fix it, I've had tome to chrome for the time being - Please help, I'm the most entity person and just need to be able to type and go!

In the Safari preferences, go to the "Search" tab and uncheck "Include Safari suggestions". Worked for me.

Fixed for me too - cheers! (how annoying)