I've been having troubles with safari shutting down randomly. I went to appple.com/safari to try and reinstall safari. But it won't let me do this because it says this update requires mac os x 10.5.8. or newer. The thing is I have 10.6.1. What should I do now?
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Trying to fix safari
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1. Safari Menu > Reset Safari... (check whatever is giving you trouble)
2. Safari Menu > Empty Cache... (Maybe counterintuitive, but it will clear things out and let you start over. The first time you then visit a site, it will probably be slow. See if the second time is faster.)
3. com.apple.safari.plist
This file is in your Home folder > Library > Preferences
Drag it to your Desktop, then go into Safari. Safari will make a new plist file
Again, you're starting fresh. But, if that makes things worse (unlikely) you can drag that file back into Preferences and overwrite the newer "default" file.
4. Log in from a different User Account. Try Safari.
If it's better, Trash your old account. You might want to try out other things before you do that, just for reassurance.
5. Reinstall 10.6 then update.
Last Resort!
Good luck!
1. Safari Menu > Reset Safari... (check whatever is giving you trouble)
2. Safari Menu > Empty Cache... (Maybe counterintuitive, but it will clear things out and let you start over. The first time you then visit a site, it will probably be slow. See if the second time is faster.)
3. com.apple.safari.plist
This file is in your Home folder > Library > Preferences
Drag it to your Desktop, then go into Safari. Safari will make a new plist file
Again, you're starting fresh. But, if that makes things worse (unlikely) you can drag that file back into Preferences and overwrite the newer "default" file.
4. Log in from a different User Account. Try Safari.
If it's better, Trash your old account. You might want to try out other things before you do that, just for reassurance.
5. Reinstall 10.6 then update.
Last Resort!
Good luck!