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Safari broken on Lion

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  • 07-08-2012 12:03am
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    Hugh_C
    Registered Users Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I have a pain in me ring with Safari (5.1.6) on Lion (10.7.4). For no apparent reason, Safari became somehow corrupt and when I try to launch it, it immediately crashes. I've tried trashing a few appropriate plist prefs (had to find Library first) and then when I had no joy there, I tried reinstalling Lion from the Recovery drive, thinking that it would overwrite Safari and other system files. Alas no joy, it still crashes.

    Do I have no oter alternative but to revert to Snow Leopard and do a clean install and then try again? This seems a long way round to fix what should have been a simple fix.

    ???


    Thanks for any advice ...

    Hugh
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    #2
    ZENER
    Registered Users Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Have you tried creating a new account on OS X and try Safari from there ?

    Ken


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    #3
    Hugh_C
    Registered Users Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭Hugh_C


    yep, forgot to say that. Similarly broken on Guest account and new account.


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    thecommander
    Registered Users Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭thecommander


    Do you use 1password? Had problems with it, I just removed the extention.


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    condra
    Registered Users Posts: 3,849 ✭✭✭condra


    Have you tried installing Safari 6?

    Safari 5 had lots of stability problems.


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