Category: Safari

Updating to Safari caused mac to freeze

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It was interesting when I updated my computer to the newest current version of Safari 5.1.1. It seemed to cause my mac to freeze. I didn’t see the Finder, and there was no sign that the computer was responding even after waiting for 15 minutes. I tried to bring up the Force Quit Application dialog box but was unable. I held down the power key for 10 seconds and the computer turned off. When I started the computer up, everything seemed fine.

I had no other applications running when I did the update. Strange for  Safari to cause the system to crash. I wonder why?

Ok. Looks like I made a mistake above. Just to double-check I ran software update again. Guess what? It said that Safari was 5.1.2. So the first time I asked Software Update to install the update, it froze and didn’t complete. The second time I asked it to update, it applied the update and restarted the computer. This is the first time I remember having a problem with Software Update. Well really a problem with the Safari installer from that. I wonder why?

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Unable to access websites in Safari?

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Interesting that this is a trojan. I haven’t run across this. I like how Linc also explains how to avoid this in the future.

You installed the QHost trojan:

Trojan:BASH/QHost.WB – F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

As for what you should do, first of all, do not install any Safari modifications such as “Glims,” which not only won’t solve your problem, but will create other problems, right away or in the future when Safari is updated.

Check the modification date of the hosts file. If you have a Time Machine or other backup of the file older than that, restore from it. Otherwise, you’ll need to edit the file. Post if you need help doing that.

To avoid problems like this, perhaps much worse problems, you need to develop a lot more security awareness. Don’t indiscriminately install software you download from random websites. If a website tells you to install a “plugin” or “codec” from that same site, don’t do it. Software with a corporate brand, such as Adobe Flash, must be downloaded directly from the developer’s site. No intermediary is acceptable. Make sure you read the URL in the address bar. If it’s something like this:

blahblah.adobe.com/

then you’re on Adobe’s site. If it’s any of the following, you’re on a fake Adobe site:

blahblahadobe.com/

adobe.blahblah.com/

adobe.com.blahblah/

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Safari menubar not responsive: Apple Support Communities

 

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Safari menubar not responsive: Apple Support Communities. Great detective work by Linc. You can learn more about SIMBL here.

Delete the following items:

/Library/Application Support/SIMBL

/Library/LaunchAgents/net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist

/Library/ScriptingAdditions/SIMBL.osax

Log out and log back in. Test Safari.
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I can’t add bookmarks on Safari 5.1: Apple Support Communities

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I can’t add bookmarks on Safari 5.1: Apple Support Communities. Nice solution. I wonder why Apple preferences get corrupted so often? I have to suspect it is all the Microsoft and Adobe software that is crashing our machines!

Quit Safari.

Go to ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari.

Move the cache.db file from the Safari folder to the Trash.

Relaunch Safari. Try adding a Bookmark.

If that didn’t help, could be the preferences are corrupted ..

Go to ~/Library/Preferences. Move the com.apple.Safari.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Desktop.

Quit then relaunch Safari to test. If that helped, move the .plist file to the Trash.

~ (Tilde) represents the Home folder.

For LIon:   To find the Home folder in OS X Lion, open the Finder, hold the Option key, and choose Go > Library

 

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