Safari redirects to my Applications folder?

[The Beatles]

Hi everyone,

I can't see to access http://www.finance.yahoo.com anymore. Every time i try, i would get a Safari error window saying that too many redirects occurred.


What I have tried:
Emptied cash
Deleted Prefs
Deleted the whole Safari folder in my user library


Now that I've deleted the whole Safari folder in the library i get this message. Please pay special attention to the URL field. Its actually directing me to the safari application itself.


Things to note:
Im actually using Safari for all other pages just fine. Im typing this right now with Safari.

This doesn't occur when i use FireFox.

 

[GGJstudios]

Since you deleted the Safari folder in your user Library (which you shouldn't have), reinstall Safari.

 

[The Beatles]

if i just type in the URL

http://www.finance.yahoo.com

I get the same error message but the URL shows up as it should. Which is http://www.finance.yahoo.com. But I still get the Safari error shown above (minus the funky URL anomaly).




I just went to download safari and the apple safari page only has safari as a 5.1 SNOW LEOPARD download. How are Lion users suppose to download?

 

[GGJstudios]

Safari rebuilt the user folder. I'll give your suggestion a shot though. Thanks.

Deleting the .plist is helpful in some cases, but deleting the whole folder is unnecessary.

 

[The Beatles]

Deleting the .plist is helpful in some cases, but deleting the whole folder is unnecessary.

Thanks, so how do you recommend redownloading safari? All i see is a Snow Leopard install for Safari.

http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

 

[GGJstudios]

Thanks, so how do you recommend redownloading safari? All i see is a Snow Leopard install for Safari.

http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

It's not restricted to SL. That's the link.

 

[The Beatles]

It's not restricted to SL. That's the link.

Thats weird. It says here that its Snow Leapord. I tried installing it and the installer said that it needs 10.6 to install safari

 

[GGJstudios]

Thats weird. It says here that its Snow Leapord. I tried installing it and the installer said that it needs 10.6 to install safari

Which OS version are you running?

 

[The Beatles]

In post #3 I stated Lion. Here is a recap of what has happened.


http://www.finance.yahoo.com gives me a Safari error. The error states

"Too many redirects occurred trying to open "http://finance.yahoo.com/". This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page."


My system specs:

OSX Lion
iMace 27"


Going to the http://www.apple.com/safari/download/ i get the webpage displayed in post #7 above. Please note, it says Safari for Snow Leopard.

 

[GGJstudios]

In post #3 I stated Lion.

Sorry, I didn't notice your edit to that post. I believe Lion has its own recovery process, but I can't help you with that, since I've elected not to switch to Lion.

 

[The Beatles]

Sorry, I didn't notice your edit to that post. I believe Lion has its own recovery process, but I can't help you with that, since I've elected not to switch to Lion.

Holding out are you? Yeah your right, i did edit that post. Alright then, thanks for your time GGJstudios.

 

[GGJstudios]

Holding out are you?

Yes, I don't upgrade unless I have a specific need to do so. So far, I haven't seen anything in Lion that I want or need.

Yeah your right, i did edit that post. Alright then, thanks for your time GGJstudios.

This may help get you started: OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery Disk Assistant

 

[The Beatles]

So Safari is running fine on all sites but the finance.yahoo.com home page. If anyone has an idea of what could be the problem please let me know. Every other web page works fine. You can see the error message i get by viewing the original post.

Best,

the beatles.

 

[The Beatles]

Everything is back to normal. I didn't have to reinstall, i didn't do anything other than what i listed above. And the above didn't change anything.

It just all the sudden started working again, after two days. VERY STRANGE.