finder crash when clicking on any web link located inside the folder

I can confirm that I am having the same issues after updating to Safari 12 on macOS 10.12.6. On a webloc file, doing a Get Info or attempting a Quick Look causes the Finder to crash. As others have reported, this is system-wide, not user account specific. For now I will just live with the issue. Double clicking a webloc file still works and successfully opens the link in Safari. For now, I'll just save web pages as Webarchive files and paste URL's into the Comments field using Get Info. Hopefully someone will come up with a fix or Apple releases an update.

I have an identical problem, with the addition that "info" fails when going through the process of changing webloc icon pictures.

I've attempted to both pick up "info" from a webloc and also open a web site from a webloc item on the desktop from within finder......all at an Apple store using a mac sierra os machine.

Same results...."fail".

So, I would say the problems are related to Sierra software, maybe update bug(s).

No amount of fiddling is going to fix this issue, more likely a clever programmer can sort it out.

Have just realised this problem maybe related to a recent (Sept 2018) safari update, with Safari apparently having tight integration into Sierra os.

There's no way that I know of to rollback the Safari version to test this, so as I've previously mentioned we're all stuck with the problem until such time as the gurus at Apple discover and fix it.

Also just to clarify my previous post, when I checked at an Apple store I used one of the store machines, not mine. So as you can imagine the Apple techie was a bit shocked to see the finder crash, info not work etc.

I do wonder what the Apple testing team is doing with such an obvious bug lurking in an update release.

Hope I can be proved wrong on all this and it's really simpler to fix, but have to wait and see I suppose.

I can confirm that it's definitely Safari 12.0 update that is causing this problem. I informed Apple on the day the update was released.

Unbelievable! How does such a major bug get through any half-competent testing regime before being released to the world. Further evidence of Apple's appalling collapse in QA. Federighi is incompetent and should be fired.

I tend to agree that the software "Boss" should have been much more careful with QA, mind you I'll always remember the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster...with the philosophy of 'everything is fine, let's just go'. History always repeats itself.

Given the multitude of MS Windows failures over the years and switching to Mac, I'm disturbed to encounter this standard of performance particularly after three or four years of A1 quality assistance etc. If this continues, then my trusty Linux is without doubt the best alternative, perhaps dual boot with my Mac Mini.

Having said that, there are also many LInux experts eager to help in the event of problems.

We'll see how quickly the Apple behemoth fixes this issue !

I have the same issue for weeks (OS X Sierra, latest updates) Reeeally annoying!

Basically if you highlight a webloc in any form (list or split view), the finder just crashes.

apple please consider:

there are still folks using your products not just for jogging and lifestyle. ****ing-blingbling-sh**

"you can upgrade to high sierra"

well ... that's exactly NOT the point ... the idea is to be able to keep using i.e. Sierra

Why does one have to change OS, just to have the most normal thing (highlight a webloc in split or list view - without the finder crashing) work again? That used to work perfectly fine before. For me, High Sierra always felt buggy and never right & Mojave is too fresh to change to (and does not work on Mac Minis < 2012). Sierra worked just fine.

Feels like Apple is trying to force users to play guinea-pig for their new OS', by dismembering their own older OS' with bad updates.

Same problem here. With Sierra 10.12.6. Finder crashes ONLY when a url is clicked in column view.

Safari 12 is installed, but it is NOT my default browser.

Wondering if trashing Safari program itself could help? I really don't want to trash the associated Safari files – don't want to lose links, etc.

Unfortunately, no can do, newuseraccountbilly; well - not easily anyway. Safari is considered part of the OS and is protected under Apple's SIP (System Integrity Protection). You'll see if you Google "delete Safari from my Mac" that it's possible but quite tricky.

Yet again, we're at the mercy of a slow-to-respond, non-communicative, ever-more-arrogant Apple.

Thank you GlenP.

Yes, I then tried to trash Safari, but was blocked by the system.

It seems like this is within the scope of the jurisprudence established when Microsoft tried to insist their browser was necessary to functioning of the Windows system. The courts told MS to fix it. But that wasn't with the Trump courts and justice department. And now the Supremes have an anti-consumer majority.

Well, Well, Well,

I have been nosing around for some way to fix things here ,having many of the same problems which this thread is discussing; ie; Finder crashing, also Spotlight quiting mid-stream, etc. etc.

I figured I would try a restore OS or the Combo Update but will hope & wait for a Safari Update to get it all fixed.

I can't believe they would (purposely) leave Sierra in such a state just to make us upgrade to HS or Mojoby. Hmph!

This seems related, Maybe someone is smart enough to figure out our fix.

I have your problem and Spotlight also crashes when typing in web addresses. In the linked article it tells you a workaround until they fix this issue.

https://tidbits.com/2018/10/01/safari-12-crashes-spotlight-in-sierra-heres-the-f ix/

Does this happen to you also?

thanks Louis

Disabling spotlight searching browserhistory and weblocs is at least a workaround to not have spotlight crash almost instantly each time.

It would be nice tho, to be able to search weblocs and browserhistory again.

Let's hope Apple reads its discussion-forums ... must look quite small on that applewatch-screen i guess ...

I'm having the same issue, really annoying. The finder crash/refresh only happens while using column view in a finder window (doesn't do it in icon view or list view). I'm always working in column view mode, and constantly save weblog files in my workflow.

It definitely seems to be something to do with Safari 12 and the way webloc files are handled after upgrading to Sierra 10.12.6 on my Mac Pro.

I can't upgrade to Mojave because of some older apps I must use that are not compatible with Mohave. Hope apple fixes this soon; really irritating!