HELP!When I close a Safari page, ALL open pages close on me!!

[RichardFinlay]

Hi there everyone! I sincerely hope someone can help me with this.

I just installed Tiger on my Mac. I have dashboard and spotlight but perhaps I did something wrong because when the computer is starting up it says "Mac OSX", not Tiger -- is this normal?

But my real problem is this. Since I installed the new Tiger software, whenever I have a few web pages open at the same time and then I close down one of them -- they all subsequently shut down on me. I get a pop-up box that says CLOSE, REPORT, REOPEN. Then you have to open Safari again. You then have to look through your history to see where you were and what you were doing if you can't remember.

So in effect I think by clicking on the RED 'X' CLOSE DOWN button, it makes my computer hiccup and then it closes down all of my Safari pages and gives me the error message.

Some guy told me to find "com.apple.safari.plist" (or something like that)and throw it into the trash bin. I tried that a few times and it still didn't work.

Never had this problem before. Hope you can help. Much appreciated!!

[camgangrel21]

sound as if you need to back up all your data and do a clean reinstall of the OS. It sounds as if your mac has some how got locked up when you did your upgrade some times this will happen. I would say to get a USB or a Firewire hard dive and back up that way. But can use CDs or DVDs.

[eric2006]

.. or you could try to re-install safari. Just use Pacifist to go into the mac os x install packages and find safari. Might want to try that before a complete re-install.

[RichardFinlay]

how exactly do i re-install safari? i'm no computer genius. but i'll take a guess. i stick in a blank DVD. open toast. drag and drop safari from Applications into toast. burn dvd and make sure it's on the dvd when completed. take safari off my computer by dragging from Applications into the Trash. restart computer. put in dvd with safari on it and go from there, re-installing it?

[camgangrel21]

thank you eric2006 I had not thought of that. That should do it. If it's just safari. But it sounds as if this mybe system wide. From what the poster is saying. I would put my money that something has massed up his underling system. all lest in the network part.

[camgangrel21]

Originally Posted by RichardFinlay

how exactly do i re-install safari? i'm no computer genius. but i'll take a guess. i stick in a blank DVD. open toast. drag and drop safari from Applications into toast. burn dvd and make sure it's on the dvd when completed. take safari off my computer by dragging from Applications into the Trash. restart computer. put in dvd with safari on it and go from there, re-installing it?

No put in you install disk and then take and goto the packchs folder and then to the Sarari.pkg file run that and it will reinstall the app.
But like I say in my first post this is looking as if something deep down in the OS in the networing part is massed up some how. So the OS has been hosed. more then liky it was something did not do. I have my mac just one about 2 weeks ago weak up and it could not see the network. The only thing that worked was doing the aricnve reinstall.

[powermac]

Before you reinstall, try to delete Safari Plist file, while safari is closed. Then open safari and try it.

[ra3ndy]

Or before you try any of that, eliminate the simple problems by selecting "Reset Safari" from the "Safari" menu. That'll remove all Safari related files and replace them with default settings. If that doesn't work, then try reinstalling Safari.