I'm setting up a new-to-me MacBook, running on High Sierra. I went through the software update yesterday. I've been trying to set the preferences for Safari, but they keep reverting when I quit the app and reopen it. Things that consistently disappear are my homepage (reverts to Apple), search engine choice, toolbar customizations, and add-ons. Is there some plist file I need to delete. Do I need to reinstall Safari?
MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)
I requested the hosts to relocate your post to 10.13.
To reinstall Safari, you have to reinstall the OS.
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 ’Show Library Folder’. 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 requested the hosts to relocate your post to 10.13.
To reinstall Safari, you have to reinstall the OS.
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 ’Show Library Folder’. 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.
It turns out that it was a prefs file causing the problem, in this case the Safari Extensions plist one.
Apologies to posting to the Sierra group...
Safari preferences won't stick
