No Dice in Safari

[chrisdistaulo]

Hi there,

Today my mbp wanted to install some updates- i let it happen and when it finished, Safari wouldn't open up. It would bounce in the dock- nothing. It's been carrying on like this all day.. i took the shortcut out of the dock and placed it in again, restarted, shut down, tried to open Safari up in Finder, i ran Onyx to clean my computer up a bit and still; no dice. anyone out there have this problem before/currently? thanks.

 

[rianm7]

It sounds like either their was a problem updating Safari (if your updates were Safari updates of course). I would remove Safari, and install it again. If it still doesn't work, try removing Safari and the package receipt (I can't remember exactly where it is stored).

 

[dtravis7]

The Safari plist file is in users/username/Library/Preferences.

The file name is com.apple.safari.plist

 

[chrisdistaulo]

Thanks for the help... I'm trying to download Safari 3.1.2 off the apple site but it says I have to pay... heeeeeeelp.

 

[dtravis7]

Can you show us the URL where they want $$$ for Safari?

 

[chrisdistaulo]

bleh that was rather noob-y. anyway, i got it. i found the site where i can download Safari (free), i was using the real player browser on my mbp to try to download the dmg file but no luck, i didnt pop up. i then went to my imac and attempted to transfer Safari 3.1.2 for leopard via my external harddrive. everything transfered properly but then when i went to download on my mbp it said that it wasn't openable.

 

[chrisdistaulo]

....ok. so i downloaded firefox onto my mbp. from there, off of firefox i downloaded Safari. once i open up the dmg file it tries to install Safari, but when i choose my harddrive as the installation volume it says "You cannot install Safari on this volume. This update requires Mac OS X 10.5.2 or newer." even though im working off leopard... please help, firefox is terrible compared to Safari.

 

[rianm7]

have you updated to 10.5.2 on that volume?