Since updating to OS X 10.13.4, Safari forgets the window size I set. When I open the app, the window extends all the way to the bottom of the screen. Any suggestions?
Mac mini (Late 2014), macOS High Sierra (10.13)
A Safe Mode boot deletes system caches that can help after updating macOS.
To start up in safe mode:
To leave safe mode, restart your Mac without pressing any keys during startup.
Then try Safari.
Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac - Apple Support
A Safe Mode boot deletes system caches that can help after updating macOS.
To start up in safe mode:
To leave safe mode, restart your Mac without pressing any keys during startup.
Then try Safari.
Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac - Apple Support
Might be a corrupt .plist.
Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.
Quit the application.
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 âShow Library Folderâ. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
This may require a reset of some other Preferences.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
I have been experimenting â the 23 pixels was a clue. It's the height of the Tab Bar unless I am mistaken... Try hiding Tab Bar from the View menu and see if that stops the growing window issue. Does for me,
Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. Also try the Safe Mode.
Isolating an issue by using another user account
Safe Mode Startup â El Capitan. also Sierra
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I created a second Admin account and logged in as that. Problem doesn't occur.
Booting into Safe Mode in my account: Problem persists.
Here's the Etrecheck report:
EtreCheck version: 4.2.1 (4C020)
Report generated: 2018-04-15 07:18:36
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Runtime: 2:34
Performance: Excellent
Problem: Other problem
Description:
Safari window increases in size
Major Issues: None
Minor Issues:
These issues do not need immediate attention but they may indicate future problems.
Time Machine auto backup disabled - Time Machine auto backups are disabled.
Apps with heavy CPU usage - There have been numerous cases of apps with heavy CPU usage.
Hardware Information:
Mac mini (Late 2014)
Mac mini Model: Macmini7,1
1 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5 (i5-4278U) CPU: 2-core
8 RAM Not upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0 - 4 GB DDR3 1600 ok
BANK 1/DIMM0 - 4 GB DDR3 1600 ok
Video Information:
Intel Iris - VRAM: 1536 MB
ASUS VS228 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
HP S2031 1600 x 900 @ 60 Hz
Drives:
disk0 - SanDisk SD7SB7S010T1122 1.02 TB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)
Internal SATA 6 Gigabit Serial ATA
disk0s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB
disk0s2 () 1.02 TB
disk1s1 - Macintosh HD (APFS) 1.02 TB (473.74 GB used)
disk1s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] 1.02 TB (130 MB used)
disk1s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] 1.02 TB (3.64 GB used)
disk1s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] 1.02 TB (2.15 GB used)
disk2 - Western Digital My Passport 259F 1.00 TB (Unknown)
External USB 5 Gbit/s
disk2s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB
disk2s2 - T*********e (Journaled HFS+) 999.83 GB
disk3 - PNY USB 3.0 FD 31.00 GB (Unknown)
External USB 5 Gbit/s
disk3s1 - B**B (Case-Sensitive Journaled HFS+) 31.00 GB
Mounted Volumes:
disk1s1 - Macintosh HD 1.02 TB (544.13 GB free)
APFS
Mount point: /
disk1s4 - VM [APFS VM] 1.02 TB (544.13 GB free)
APFS
Mount point: /private/var/vm
disk2s2 - T*********e 999.83 GB (43.51 GB free)
Journaled HFS+
Mount point: /Volumes/TimeMachine
disk3s1 - B**B 31.00 GB (30.84 GB free)
Case-Sensitive Journaled HFS+
Mount point: /Volumes/BIAB
Network:
Interface en0: Ethernet
One IPv4 address
2 IPv6 addresses
Interface en8: iPhone
One IPv4 address
Interface en1: Wi-Fi
802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
One IPv4 address
2 IPv6 addresses
iCloud Quota: 3.77 GB available
System Software:
macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 (17E199)
Time since boot: Less than an hour
System Load: 4.92 (1 min ago) 8.98 (5 min ago) 4.98 (15 min ago)
Security:
System Status
Gatekeeper Mac App Store and identified developers
System Integrity Protection Enabled
Kernel Extensions:
/System/Library/Extensions
[Not Loaded] IKStompIO1Driver.kext (1.0.0)
[Not Loaded] daspi.kext (1.5)
System Launch Agents:
[Not Loaded] 7 Apple tasks
[Loaded] 183 Apple tasks
[Running] 102 Apple tasks
[Other] One Apple task
System Launch Daemons:
[Not Loaded] 35 Apple tasks
[Loaded] 186 Apple tasks
[Running] 113 Apple tasks
Launch Daemons:
[Not Loaded] com.rogueamoeba.aceagent.plist (Rogue Amoeba Software, LLC - installed 2018-04-03)
[Not Loaded] com.tclementdev.timemachineeditor.scheduler.plist (Thomas CLEMENT - installed 2017-09-20)
User Launch Agents:
[Not Loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2017-10-06)
User Login Items:
Flux Application (Michael Herf
(/Applications/Flux.app)
Internet Plug-ins:
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: 3.3.8.1 (installed 2016-10-21)
QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (installed 2018-03-30)
iPhotoPhotocast: 7.0 (installed 2013-04-16)
JavaAppletPlugin: Java 8 Update 144 build 01 (installed 2017-08-16)
Safari Extensions:
BackTrack.safariextz - SideTree.com - Apps for Mac and Web - http://SideTree.com/extensions.html#BackTrack (installed 2018-03-19)
uBlock Origin.safariextz - Raymond Hill/Ellis Tsung - https://www.github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari (installed 2018-04-03)
Downie Safari Extension - Mac App Store - (installed 2018-04-11)
Translate.safariextz - SideTree.com - Apps for Mac - http://SideTree.com/extensions.html#Translate (installed 2018-03-19)
Tampermonkey.safariextz - Jan Biniok - http://tampermonkey.net (installed 2018-03-19)
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flip4Mac WMV (installed 2016-10-21)
Java (installed 2017-08-16)
Perian (installed 2013-12-10)
Time Machine:
Skip System Files:
Mobile backups: No
Auto backup: No
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 1.02 TB - Disk used: 479.87 GB
Destinations:
T*********e [Local] (Last used)
Total size: 999.83 GB
Total number of backups: 68
Oldest backup: 2017-04-29 01:03:12
Last backup: 2018-04-15 01:05:26
Top Processes by CPU:
Process (count) Source % of CPU
WindowServer Apple 3
iconservicesagent (2) Apple 1
coreaudiod Apple 1
kernel_task Apple 1
launchd Apple 1
Top Processes by Memory:
Process (count) Source RAM usage
kernel_task Apple 772 MB
Finder Apple 351 MB
iconservicesagent (2) Apple 136 MB
media-indexer Apple 135 MB
helpd Apple 133 MB
Top Processes by Network Use:
Process Source Input Output
helpd Apple 782 KB 5 KB
mDNSResponder Apple 419 KB 112 KB
apsd Apple 14 KB 21 KB
usbmuxd Apple 6 KB 10 KB
cloudd Apple 7 KB 2 KB
Top Processes by Energy Use:
Process (count) Source Energy usage (0-100)
WindowServer Apple 2
coreaudiod Apple 2
trustd (3) Apple 1
syncdefaultsd 1
iconservicesagent (2) Apple 0
Virtual Memory Information:
Available RAM 4.71 GB
Free RAM 240 MB
Used RAM 3.29 GB
Cached files 4.48 GB
Swap Used 0 B
Diagnostics Information (past 7 days):
2018-04-15 07:06:36 Last Shutdown Cause: 3 - Hard shutdown (once)
2018-04-12 06:34:51 nsurlstoraged Crash (once)
2018-04-11 13:49:10 quicklookd32.app Crash (once)
last threaded generator: com.apple.myriadquicklookgenerator
2018-04-11 07:05:27 QuickLookUIService Crash (once)
2018-04-11 04:42:49 installd CPU (once)
2018-04-09 05:10:56 InfiniteSpaceIII.app CPU (once)
End of report
As a test, go to System Preferences/Users & Groups and remove Flux from your login items. Log out of your account and then back in. Test.
Open system preferences > dock and check the box of minimise windows into the application icon .
See this article macOS Sierra: Dock System Preferences
This helped for a while, but Safari eventually went back to opening larger windows.
The behavior at the moment goes like this: close the current window, and create a new one. The new window is the same width as the previous one, but slightly taller. If I do the same thing again, the next window will be taller still until it is equal to the screen height.
I wish I knew a way of fixing this that didn't involve throwing away the .plist, because I hate resetting all the other settings.
No change.
I doubt that it means anything, but the increase in size is 23 vertical pixels each time. Horizontal stays the same.
That's done it. Thanks!
I have pinned tabs, so the tab bar shows anyway, but switching it off the once somehow seems to have fixed the problem.
Trashing the .plist file seems to have fixed the issue. Many, many thanks for that. You have no idea how much the growing Safari window was irritating me... đ
Odd that the same issue occurs on both my Macs, so I expect it is something I have installed on both that corrupted the .plist file in the first place... Fingers crossed it won't do the same again.
Thanks again for your help â
Safari forgets window size and position
