Haha, I just came here to laugh at Safari.

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Haha, I just came here to laugh at Safari.

My question, if I had one, is this: how come a major built-in component of my expensive, pretentious Mac computer just stops working altogether? Safari started acting strange weeks ago so I scaled back my already meager usage of it (hint: it *****), and I just went to use it again randomly, just trying to test an HTML email I'm working on for my job.

Now Safari is completely unusable. I tried to log into one of my Gmail accounts—no dice. Everything on the screen becomes unresponsive—the links are unclickable, the buttons as well. Hahaha!!!

This is ******* precious. So, someone is getting paid to put out broken software? Just give it up already, guys. You're losing it.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Sep 6, 2016 11:20 PM

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Eric Root

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Sep 7, 2016 6:28 AM in response to kunda311

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…. 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/Cache.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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