How to downgrade Safari?

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How to downgrade Safari?

Hello everyone! This is my first post on here so I will make this as easy as I can for you guys. Also I am not really an Apple person, I am a IT Technician spend most of my time on windows machines. I know my way round apple OS but this defeats me.

Mac IOS X 10.11.3 (El Capitan)

Safari Version 9.0.3

Hardware (not sure if you really need to know at all so ill keep the list short)

Intel Core 2 Duo

8GB RAM

256mb Graphics Card

Okay so basically this is a office Mac that the development team use for web design. Today we updated the IOS software and so far haven't had any problems. Well not really any problems anyway but the problem is it's upgraded Safari to 9.0.3 and the web development team need this to be 9.0.2 because they are designing specific pages and designs. I know there is not really a way to downgrade apple products without a ball ache however I really need this to be done.

Here is some additional information.

I DON'T have a backup to try and restore Safari to an earlier period.

I CAN'T reinstall another IOS and restore from backup, they need this machine to be working all of the time.

I need this to happen, I don't really mind how or what I have to do. If I do have to reinstall the IOS again and roll back Safari then so be it.

Thanks for the information to whoever leaves any for me.

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Mar 8, 2016 8:07 AM

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Answer 1

dialabrain

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Mar 8, 2016 8:44 AM in response to LiamBarnett

FWIW, iOS is the mobile OS for iPhones and iPads.

Without a backup there is no way to revert to Safari 9.0.2. You would have to have the previous version, OS X 10.11.2 or before which you can't download.

What makes you think 9.0.3 is any different graphically than 9.0.2 was?

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LiamBarnett Author

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Mar 8, 2016 9:02 AM in response to dialabrain

Thanks I did wonder so thanks for clearing that up for me, look like a fool now!

Anyway back onto the subject at hand. I probably do have a backup somewhere of the previous OS that was installed however they have done mountains of work since then and I just can't risk losing any file from that Mac as it has customers designs on it and all sorts. Doing a backup now also won't do anything for me either I guess as I have upgraded now.

It isn't really much "different" however the development team were Ironing out bugs in Safari 9.0.2 and now it's upgraded one of the bugs hasn't been fixed on 9.0.2 but works fine on 9.0.3 what is good however some people are going to be running 9.0.2 still and we can't fix the issue unless we revert back to 9.0.2 and are 100% it is fine. Honestly if I didn't have to go through with this I wouldn't but these guys need it done!

Also why can't you roll back Safari. why make it so impossible and so impossible to roll back the OS let alone the bloody browser just IMO it is just crap.

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dialabrain

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Mar 8, 2016 9:15 AM in response to LiamBarnett

LiamBarnett wrote:

Also why can't you roll back Safari. why make it so impossible and so impossible to roll back the OS let alone the bloody browser just IMO it is just crap.

It's actually fairly easy when you have a backup.

I guess my point was, why fix anything for Safari 9.0.2 since anyone running OS X 10.11 is going to be running Safari 9.0.3 or later.

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Old Toad

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Mar 8, 2016 11:20 AM in response to LiamBarnett

Go to the Apple Download site and download the OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 Update package. Next download the demo version of Pacifist, launch it and open the combo updater package. Lastly extract the Safari app to wherever you want it. It will be V 9.0.2.

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dialabrain

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Mar 8, 2016 12:02 PM in response to Old Toad

My bad. I assumed only the 10.11.3 upgrade would be available.

I still think it makes no sense but that's just me.

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dialabrain

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Mar 8, 2016 3:41 PM in response to Old Toad

Old Toad wrote:

Go to the Apple Download site and download the OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 Update package. Next download the demo version of Pacifist, launch it and open the combo updater package. Lastly extract the Safari app to wherever you want it. It will be V 9.0.2.

After I posted I tried extracting Safari from the combo updater. It may very well work with the paid version of Pacifist but not the demo version. It only extracted an incomplete file of just over 4MBs and no icon.

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Old Toad

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Mar 8, 2016 4:07 PM in response to dialabrain

Mine didn't have an icon either and was only 4.3 MB.

Did you try to launch it?

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Answer 8

dialabrain

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Mar 8, 2016 4:09 PM in response to Old Toad

No, I'm happy with 9.0.3 and didn't relish having to reinstall anything in case.

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LiamBarnett Author

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Mar 10, 2016 4:42 AM in response to Old Toad

No I haven't got round to trying this yet I have been super busy! I will try this solution and see if it works for me. Although 4.3mb doesn't sound like very much for a browser? Will see what happens when I try and run it. Thanks for the responses you guys.

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