[Ham-Mac] safari

[Tom Rees]

Like most of the response posts, I have found Safari, while not 
perfect, to be a significantly better browser overall than IE or 
Netscape.
Yours is obviously hosed (technical term meaning not working like it 
should).
So start with the simple stuff before you go crazy with a bunch of 
system utilities you don't understand . You throw away the various 
support files that Safari reads at runtime, but not all at once. That 
way you stand a decent chance of not losing your bookmarks or your 
cookies or your prefs if you don't need to.
The basic Safari support files, in my order of preference for tossing 
them out are:

1.) In your Home directory, go into the Library folder, then into the 
Preferences folder. You want to trash the Safari plist (preferences) 
file called com.apple.Safari.plist
2.) In your Home directory, go into the Library folder, and trash the 
Safari folder that is right there.
3.) In your Home directory, go into the Library folder, then into the 
Caches folder, and trash the Safari folder you find there.
4.) In your Home directory, go into the Library folder, and trash the 
Cookies folder that is right there.

The standard method is to trash #1 and then try to run the app.
If it doesn't help, trash #1 again (typically, but not always, it will 
have been rewritten when you try to run the app) and also trash #2. Try 
again. And so on. If you trash everything you can think of and it 
doesn't help, trash them all including the Safari app itself from the 
Applications folder and reinstall the Safari app. If it still doesn't 
work, you've probably got a real system problem that Safari has 
discovered for you. Lucky you! Find a OS X weenie, drag him/her to your 
machine and tell him/her they can't leave until they fix Safari. 
Promise them good beer when they get it going.

Really, safari is a good app and a good browser. Not perfect but very 
good. It's worth getting it up and going.

But hey, that's just me.

Trees - KB7XL
Principal System Anal, Multimedia Tech Group




On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 03:45 PM, harris ruben wrote:

>> In 13 years of browsing the net, I have never had anything as good 
>> and reliable to use as Safari.
>
>
> OK. I tried it again. Clicked on it in the dock, watched a spinning 
> pizza pie for a minute or two, then I had to force quit. Same home 
> page on Safari and IE, so it's not a page loading issue.
>
> Back to IE.
>
> NwERN
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