7/1/13 Microsoft Update KB6270838 causes Firefox to crash. Only works in safe mode. Fix inside.

How to fix:
Uninstall Microsoft Update KB6270838 by going to Control Panel
Click Windows Update
Click View Update History
Click Installed Updates
Navigate to the area called Microsoft Windows and find the update KB6270838
Doubleclick and select Uninstall.
restart and everything will work again.

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I recently updated to 10.9.1 and at first, everything seemed find, but slowly I discovered that some apps crash the moment they are launched.
The list of crashing apps includes (but is not limited to) CodeKit, GeekTool Helper, AppCleaner, ControllerMate and Bartender.
What makes things odd, AppCleaner I managed to get working by removing it, then snagging a new copy. ControllerMate and Bartender both only crashed once or trice, thus work almost all the time.
CodeKit and GeekTool however crash every single time. I once got CodeKit to work again for a single evening by getting rid of all its files and using a new copy, but the next day it was back to instantly crashing. Deleting all its files never ever worked again since.
The symptom of the crash is always the same: There is no error message; instead the app’s window freezes, and the mouse on hover gives me the spinning wheel of death. Activity Monitor shows the crashed app is using about 100.2% CPU power and the only way to get rid of it is to force-close it.
Not all the crashes are so kind as to provide me a crash log, but every now and then one does, and this is what I got in all of them:
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00007f8332c00000
VM Regions Near 0x7f8332c00000:
MALLOC_TINY 00007f8332800000-00007f8332c00000 [ 4096K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV
-->
MALLOC_SMALL 00007f8333000000-00007f8335000000 [ 32.0M] rw-/rwx SM=PRV
What I tried so far:
— Uninstall/remove all related files of the applications in question
>> For AppCleaner this worked (only crashed a single time since).
>> For CodeKit this worked only a single time, but the next day crashes returned, and this method never helped ever again.
— Logging into a Guest account.
>> CodeKit and GeekTool seemed to work at first, back then crashed the same way.
— Safe boot!
>> Here all programs appear to work fine. I messed around for a few minutes but could not get them to crash.
So according to the internet, I assume this may be caused by an obsolete kext that is not 10.9.1 compatible or a third-party app that does not get loaded when in safe mode.
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thanks a bunch man!
just repairing disk permissions didnt fix it (already tried that before).
the re-installing idea i read on the forum before where people had similar problems after an 10.8.6 update, but they had different exceptions being thrown and safe mode I believe didnt work for them either.
but upon your suggestion, I gave it a shot either way. I dont have a recovery hd, but I got around that by creating an install usb with 10.9.1, booted into that one and reinstalled in-place.
and voila! no instant-crashes, no exceptions thrown, no butt-kicking and no table-flipping! I kept things running for a few hours yesterday, and all apps are still working properly today. :3
I find it a bit weird the second installation got things working whereas the full update screwed things up, but oh well, if 10.9.2 comes around and all app-**** breaks loose again, at least I now know how to handle it.
so once again, thanks a whole lot man <3 just saved my butt!

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