Error --> com.apple.Safari.History quit unexpectedly.

We have hammered at Apple for many hours. Finally, ONE senior tech. admitted to this being an issue of their doing, not your or my machine or profile or ..., and asserted to escalate to engineering.

That likely the paradigm to get the complaining customers to go away. As a stockholder, that does not work for me.

I will escalate to sr. mgmt.

Have your seatbelt on?

Apple admits to having reports about this issue. Engineers do not have a fix nor a time when they might. They urge you keep you Mac up to date. That is how they typically communicate updates/fixes.

Good thing their last communicated update (Safari 10.0.2) caused this issue.

Remarkable ....

Not surprising. Apple's focus is on iOS devices.

An article by Mark Gurman in Bloomberg outlines some of the organizational failings at Apple's MAC group. Which from my perspective, are a cause for a buggier OS, failings in hardware performance and lack GUI aesthetic.

I will be disappointed if I'm compelled to migrate back to a Windows or a Linux platform because they end up providing a better user experience.

As users we need to make sure Apple remembers we're an important 10% of their market.

I've tried alfred 2 just to see if it behaves the same, but no issue appeared. So I guess this xmas , safari's history will be quiting unexpectedly.

This pop - up is showing as safari history is not quitted properly , if you don't want the report to be send to Apple click on don't send , if this pop - up never goes , restart the machine & see what happens , still it persists click on go to go folder type ~/Library find a folder safari , right click on the the plists & move to trash , restart your system from apple logo & empty the trash that are shown in the screen shot .

Please cross check the answer with apple support at your place , as I had a conversation & discussed with the apple care support advisor in our country .

There are no articles regarding this .

Sorry.

Been there with support. 4 hours of it. No joy.

As of LATE LAST NIGHT, senior support asserts that the engineering staff is aware of the issue and they have no fix or workaround. "They are investigating." And there is no way to predict how that will go and when any findings will be made.

So there.

I urge you do sent the report to Apple every time you get that error message.

With many users sending multiple reports, repeatedly, perhaps there is a critical mass that escalates the matter sufficiently.

They know what caused the issue, thus, doing a deep dive into that should not present much of a mystery. Just needs the proper focus AND priority.

Mark's article.

Apple appears to do little more than pay ordinary [balderdash] lip service to the Mac user.

The negative impact on that 10%, as an absolute number, does not appear to rise to any relevant level of concern. However, that perspective is remarkably limited. The Mac user also buys the iPhones et al.

In our businesses and families, as a result of this and other similar failures, as well as woefully limited improvements in the product line, we have been moving on from iPhones to other devices, with excellent user experiences.

But for the occasional instant combustion and explosion....

I have the same problem and it's driving me nuts. I already tried resetting Safari to default (manually deleting all Safari related files) and uninstalling different software i recently installed, Nothing works. I was about to clean install the OS but it seems it would be pointless.

Add one more to the list. Is there any way to go back to the previous version of Safari? ... would it even work. This is very frustrating as I use Spotlight all of the time. Aaarrrrrgghhh! 😠 (screw 'Angry', try "****** Off!")

You too, huh. I'm not surprised by Apple's dynamic inaction -- there's quite a bit of noise under the hood these days -- to actually pay attention to customers would be out of the ordinary in the Cook Era.

Should anyone from Apple actually monitor this board, hear this: I bought the M001 when it was new, and stayed the course before and after Jobs first exited the company (triggering a round of greed and mismanagement in the 1990s). As a media professional with many, many Apple products as hardware and software platforms, well... let me say the last couple of years (since the death of Steve Jobs) have been _miserable_. The crap being pushed as software improvements or hardware fixes is not only consistently buggy junk in search of profits, but worse it trashes _confidence_ in what you have to sell. And I have stopped buying, and will NEVER again be suckered into some crappy watch or other nonsense your marketing tools dream up -- 'products' masquerading as innovation.

Pay more attention to your core customers Apple or die a miserable death like Blackberry!!!

A contributor posted what follows. WDYT?

10.0.2 Safari Update Causes Spotlight Crash

After 10.0.2 Safari update Spotlight crashes trying to initialize its sandbox. The underlying issue happens because the install script fails to cleanup the /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari directory.

Dyld Error Message:

Symbol not found: _initializeSandbox

Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SafariShared.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices /com.apple.Safari.History.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.Safari.History

Expected in: /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/SafariShared.framework/Versions/A/Safar iShared

If anyone else is having this problem, here are the steps to at least temporarily fix:

1) Restart into restore mode ( Command-R )

2) Open Terminal window

3) Careful!!! rm -rf /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/

4) You shouldn't have to change protection mode but if you get an "operation not allowed", type:

csrutil disable

rm -rf /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/

csrutil enable

I've reported this issue about 3 dozen times to Apple with ZERO feedback. Hopefully it will get fixed.

Also, manually running the comprehensive update causes the same problem.

Dec 20, 2016 5:14 PM in response to babelincoln

Clarification on step 3:

In Terminal

1) Type: ls /Volumes/

2) Find which mounted volume is your main hard drive (mine is MacintoshHD)

3) Type: cd /Volumes/<your Mac HD>/System/Library/

4) Type: ls StagedFrameworks

5) The only directory in StagedFrameworks should be Safari

6) Type: rm -rf StagedFrameworks

7) Type: reboot

So true...

I now have Spotlight working without getting the crash dialog by disabling Safari Bookmarks and History as well as Bing Search results in Spotlight preferences.

Spoke too soon... Still happens if I try to start Excel using Spotlight (or any other application). Opening documents seems to work ok.