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>
