Safari (MacOS 10.11.6) just started acting strange when I attempt to launch News from the Google homepage. All other apps (YouTube, Mail, Calendar, etc) launch fine. When I click on News I get Not Found Error 404 and the URL displays as news.google.com/news/headlines?hl=en. If I delete the headlines?hl=en it works fine. I have cleared cache, flushed DNS and everything else I can think of. Minor problem but it shouldn't be doing this.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Hi,
Might be a cookie issue.
From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab then click: Manage Website Data then click Remove All > Done. You may need to do this twice to remove all the cookies.
Then go back to your Safari menu bar, click History > Clear History then quit and relaunch Safari then try Google News.
I tried this Carolyn. I have been a Mac user for over 25 years so this is why this problem was so odd. I couldn't figure it out. So I did remove all Website Data, cleared history, I used Clean My Mac to flush DNS, delete cache and cookies and used Washing Machine to remove cookies and clear cache. After a restart as well it worked for a while and then reverted. I just launched Safari and see that Google has done a redesign and the layout in Safari is now similar to that in Chrome. So maybe that was the problem. Seems OK now.
Safari won't open Google News
