Safari crashes upon launching. Immediately.
Safari 9.1.2
Had been working without issues for years. I did not install any new extensions.
• Tried a restart
• Tried to launch Safari by holding SHIFT with the dock icon
• Can't keep Safari open long enough to open Preferences or any menu options
• There are no pages open.
• I have deleted the plist file
• I have deleted the cache/history
When this began on Friday, it wasn't quite an immediate crash. I had been getting error messages from a site about a 'flash movie loading slowly,' and 'advice' online suggested that i uninstall and reinstall Flash. Which i did. And, since then, the crashes are virtually instantaneous at the launch of the app.
Ridiculous that i can't just delete and reinstall Safari alone, and i'd rather not have to reinstall the entire OS.
Any other options?
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iMac 72, late 2012
3.4GHz i7
16GB RAM
El Capitan 10.11.6
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)