Strange Safari behaviour for only one user ?
Hi folks, My step daughter has an iMac 17 inch 2GHz using Tiger. Each of her 2 children have their own log in (with the same parental controls set up) On Thursday her son started having a problem with Safari. He can open Safari and select anything in bookmarks OK. However once he opens Google, enters something in the search box and clicks Search, the spinning beach ball appears, runs for about 30 seconds to a minute and then Safari quits. I tried opening the Apple website and that was fine, but once I entered something in the search box and hit enter Safari quit !! Strange thing is that mum and daughter can log in and Safari is fine. I have compared the Safari set up for both children and it is identical. So I decided to delete the son as a user and up comes the spinning beach ball for that !! Have to then force quit system preferences. Any ideas please from anyone ?? Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Strange Safari behaviour for only one user ?
On 02/10/2010, at 4:18 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Hi folks, My step daughter has an iMac 17 inch 2GHz using Tiger. Each of her 2 children have their own log in (with the same parental controls set up) On Thursday her son started having a problem with Safari. He can open Safari and select anything in bookmarks OK. However once he opens Google, enters something in the search box and clicks Search, the spinning beach ball appears, runs for about 30 seconds to a minute and then Safari quits. I tried opening the Apple website and that was fine, but once I entered something in the search box and hit enter Safari quit !! Strange thing is that mum and daughter can log in and Safari is fine. I have compared the Safari set up for both children and it is identical. So I decided to delete the son as a user and up comes the spinning beach ball for that !! Have to then force quit system preferences. Any ideas please from anyone ?? Regards, Stephen Chape Hi Stephen, I presume Parental Controls is set to 'Not allow' the son to install any plugins /add-ons. 1. Have you Reset Safari in the Son's User Account? Choose Reset Safari from the Safari menu and click Reset. 2. Have you Repaired Permissions on the Son's Account? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Strange Safari behaviour for only one user ?
Thank you Ronni, I had thought of repairing permissions as I left their home today. Will try on next visit. However I did not think of Rest Safari On 02/10/2010, at 8:19 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 02/10/2010, at 4:18 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Hi folks, My step daughter has an iMac 17 inch 2GHz using Tiger. Each of her 2 children have their own log in (with the same parental controls set up) On Thursday her son started having a problem with Safari. He can open Safari and select anything in bookmarks OK. However once he opens Google, enters something in the search box and clicks Search, the spinning beach ball appears, runs for about 30 seconds to a minute and then Safari quits. I tried opening the Apple website and that was fine, but once I entered something in the search box and hit enter Safari quit !! Strange thing is that mum and daughter can log in and Safari is fine. I have compared the Safari set up for both children and it is identical. So I decided to delete the son as a user and up comes the spinning beach ball for that !! Have to then force quit system preferences. Any ideas please from anyone ?? Regards, Stephen Chape Hi Stephen, I presume Parental Controls is set to 'Not allow' the son to install any plugins /add-ons. 1. Have you Reset Safari in the Son's User Account? Choose Reset Safari from the Safari menu and click Reset. 2. Have you Repaired Permissions on the Son's Account? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Strange Safari behaviour for only one user ?
Hi again Stephen, When you Reset Safari... from the Safari menu bar, check all the options. You could also test the plist files. If your issue is specific to a single function of Safari, remove the related plist file (found in: MacintoshHD Users username Library Safari). Drag the plist file to your Desktop and restart Safari. If the issue is solved, trash the file from your Desktop. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 02/10/2010, at 9:56 PM, Stephen Chape ch...@westnet.com.au wrote: Thank you Ronni, I had thought of repairing permissions as I left their home today. Will try on next visit. However I did not think of Rest Safari On 02/10/2010, at 8:19 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 02/10/2010, at 4:18 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Hi folks, My step daughter has an iMac 17 inch 2GHz using Tiger. Each of her 2 children have their own log in (with the same parental controls set up) On Thursday her son started having a problem with Safari. He can open Safari and select anything in bookmarks OK. However once he opens Google, enters something in the search box and clicks Search, the spinning beach ball appears, runs for about 30 seconds to a minute and then Safari quits. I tried opening the Apple website and that was fine, but once I entered something in the search box and hit enter Safari quit !! Strange thing is that mum and daughter can log in and Safari is fine. I have compared the Safari set up for both children and it is identical. So I decided to delete the son as a user and up comes the spinning beach ball for that !! Have to then force quit system preferences. Any ideas please from anyone ?? Regards, Stephen Chape Hi Stephen, I presume Parental Controls is set to 'Not allow' the son to install any plugins /add-ons. 1. Have you Reset Safari in the Son's User Account? Choose Reset Safari from the Safari menu and click Reset. 2. Have you Repaired Permissions on the Son's Account? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Strange Safari behaviour for only one user ?
Thank you Ronda, I am building a list of possible actions for my next visit to her home. I don't want her to think Macs are awkward as I have only converted her from Windows in the last 12 months !! On 03/10/2010, at 6:43 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi again Stephen, When you Reset Safari... from the Safari menu bar, check all the options. You could also test the plist files. If your issue is specific to a single function of Safari, remove the related plist file (found in: MacintoshHD Users username Library Safari). Drag the plist file to your Desktop and restart Safari. If the issue is solved, trash the file from your Desktop. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 02/10/2010, at 9:56 PM, Stephen Chape ch...@westnet.com.au wrote: Thank you Ronni, I had thought of repairing permissions as I left their home today. Will try on next visit. However I did not think of Rest Safari On 02/10/2010, at 8:19 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 02/10/2010, at 4:18 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Hi folks, My step daughter has an iMac 17 inch 2GHz using Tiger. Each of her 2 children have their own log in (with the same parental controls set up) On Thursday her son started having a problem with Safari. He can open Safari and select anything in bookmarks OK. However once he opens Google, enters something in the search box and clicks Search, the spinning beach ball appears, runs for about 30 seconds to a minute and then Safari quits. I tried opening the Apple website and that was fine, but once I entered something in the search box and hit enter Safari quit !! Strange thing is that mum and daughter can log in and Safari is fine. I have compared the Safari set up for both children and it is identical. So I decided to delete the son as a user and up comes the spinning beach ball for that !! Have to then force quit system preferences. Any ideas please from anyone ?? Regards, Stephen Chape Hi Stephen, I presume Parental Controls is set to 'Not allow' the son to install any plugins /add-ons. 1. Have you Reset Safari in the Son's User Account? Choose Reset Safari from the Safari menu and click Reset. 2. Have you Repaired Permissions on the Son's Account? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Strange Safari behaviour for only one user ?
You're welcome Stephen, There is nothing wrong with the Safari Application, there is nothing wrong with the other two users on the Mac. There is only a problem in the Son's Safari / or Account. I did mention previously, that because of Parental Controls he is probably not allowed to install anything. Is this the case, or would he have been able to install any plugins / add-ons? Let us know how you get on anyway please. Cheers, Ronni (who is still celebrating The Pies Premiership ... the Chandon Cuvee Riche is slipping down beautifully ;-) On 03/10/2010, at 8:40 AM, Stephen Chape wrote: Thank you Ronda, I am building a list of possible actions for my next visit to her home. I don't want her to think Macs are awkward as I have only converted her from Windows in the last 12 months !! On 03/10/2010, at 6:43 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi again Stephen, When you Reset Safari... from the Safari menu bar, check all the options. You could also test the plist files. If your issue is specific to a single function of Safari, remove the related plist file (found in: MacintoshHD Users username Library Safari). Drag the plist file to your Desktop and restart Safari. If the issue is solved, trash the file from your Desktop. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 02/10/2010, at 9:56 PM, Stephen Chape ch...@westnet.com.au wrote: Thank you Ronni, I had thought of repairing permissions as I left their home today. Will try on next visit. However I did not think of Rest Safari On 02/10/2010, at 8:19 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 02/10/2010, at 4:18 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Hi folks, My step daughter has an iMac 17 inch 2GHz using Tiger. Each of her 2 children have their own log in (with the same parental controls set up) On Thursday her son started having a problem with Safari. He can open Safari and select anything in bookmarks OK. However once he opens Google, enters something in the search box and clicks Search, the spinning beach ball appears, runs for about 30 seconds to a minute and then Safari quits. I tried opening the Apple website and that was fine, but once I entered something in the search box and hit enter Safari quit !! Strange thing is that mum and daughter can log in and Safari is fine. I have compared the Safari set up for both children and it is identical. So I decided to delete the son as a user and up comes the spinning beach ball for that !! Have to then force quit system preferences. Any ideas please from anyone ?? Regards, Stephen Chape Hi Stephen, I presume Parental Controls is set to 'Not allow' the son to install any plugins /add-ons. 1. Have you Reset Safari in the Son's User Account? Choose Reset Safari from the Safari menu and click Reset. 2. Have you Repaired Permissions on the Son's Account? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
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