Safari Autofill Settings Greyed Out

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.

If that doesn't work, try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. Please post back on whether or not this worked. Also try the Safe Mode. Please post back on whether or not this worked.

Isolating an issue by using another user account

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Safe Mode Startup – El Capitan. also Sierra

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Etrecheck – System Information

Check Safari/Preferences/Passwords to see if AutoFill user names and passwords is checked.

Since updating to Mojave two contextual menu items for Spotlight searches seem to be broken in my Safari app on the iMac.

When using Safari, I highlight some text, then right click and see the contextual menu option "Spotlight" when I am looking at a website or "Search in Spotlight" when I am looking at a PDF opened inside the Safari app.

Clicking on either produces no response.

Why?