Q: The application "Safari" is not open anymore

leroydouglas wrote:

 

Try launching from the application folder next time and see if this makes a difference

I tried that; it made no difference.

leroydouglas wrote:

 

How are you quitting Safari?  Using the red button in the upper left, simply closes the window.

 

If you leave certain applications running without any open windows, OS X will quit the application when it goes to the background (this is energy conservation measure and referred to as automatic termination.)

 

Quit apps from the drop down menu>Quit

or

use command Q.  You can TAB between open apps (command tab) and Q will quit the app you are landed on.

I quit all apps with CMD+Q.

There is a bug here: trying to start Safari gets 'The application "Safari" is not open anymore'; Safari doesn't appear in the Application switcher; Safari doesn't appear in "Force Quit Applications"; yet Safari does appear in Activity Monitor as a running – not crashed – process, but with 0.0% CPU, and quitting this process restores Safari to normal operation. Something is broken, at least for some of us, some of the time.

Thanks,

Steve  = : ^ )

leroydouglas wrote:

 

You can try re-applying the combo update on top of your existing 10.11.6

Download OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 Combo Update to see if this sorts it.

 

Thanks. I note that I'm not the only person with this issue, and suggest the problem isn't with my installation.

leroydouglas wrote:

 

Bug Reporter https://bugreport.apple.com/

With your same Apple ID you can sign up for a free Developers Account and start a conversation with Apple engineers

Thanks again. I might get around to that ... or I might do some work. ;-)

Steve  = : ^ )

Yes, I know how to find the Safari app. I've tried launching it from there and from a Spotlight. I don't keep it in the dock normally.

When this issue is happening, it doesn't matter how I try to launch Safari; it doesn't launch and I get the message.

Thanks,

Steve  = : ^ )

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

 

You may not be the only person with this problem, but you're the first one I've heard.

Here's another thread: 'The application Safari isn't open anymore" huh?

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

 

 

You may think otherwise, but more often than not those weird issues do come down to a conflict with some other software - and usually it is something the user installed for some misguided sense of protection.

I'm not too sure what you're suggesting here, but I have no anti-virus software, no 'clean up' software or anything of that ilk, just the programmes and plug-ins I need to work on this computer.

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

 

If you want some progress in solving this, you may run Etrecheck and post its report. You may even be running stuff that you are not aware of.

After your last sentence, you're asking me to install some more software – that I haven't heard – of on my work computer? I might do that next time this issue occurs, or I might just perform the force-quit described above and get on with work.

Thanks,

Steve  = : ^ )

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

 

Ok, so now I know two persons :-)

Three: Safari does not open and I am getting the answer" Safari is not open anymore"

Four: I am getting a message that Safari app is not open anymore.  Help

And there are more.

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

There were suggestions on that thread, posted by two experienced members of the community, and unfortunately, as often is the case, the OP never came back to say whether the issue was fixed or not. Did you follow the advice given there?

 

On one of the threads I read the suggestion to try to start Safari with the Shift key down. This worked for someone on the thread, but not for me. The suggestion in the above thread to restart in Safe Mode is irrelevant because restarting in any old mode fixes the problem.

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

 

Regarding my asking you to install extra software: I can understand you may be wary of some piece of software you don't know. Etrecheck is a utility created by a respected member of this community, to help people know what is running in their macs, and also to get better help - by letting others know what is likely to cause problems.

It does not install anything on your mac. You just run the application, copy and paste its report. You delete it just by dragging to the trash, there are no files left behind.

Fair enough. Next time I see this problem I'll do just that and report back here. I won't, for the moment, reapply the 10.11.6 update in the hope that the problem will recur.

Thanks,

Steve  = : ^ )

Haha. Yes, I do want to fix the problem but it occurs infrequently and, in the interests of helping those others who've had this happen, it would be useful to find out what's actually going wrong, so if the problem occurs again, I'll run EtreCheck at the time and post here. My next step might be to reapply the 10.11.6 update and see if the problem recurs after that.

Steve  = : ^ )