All my browsers quit upon launch; keychain issue?

Question

Strange problem, possibly a corrupted keychain issue; any browser I open in my main user; quits and goes poof. But I can open a browser in another user. I rebuilt my directory; repaired my disk; repaired perms...same prob. In one user it says login keychain missing but I can open browsers, but my login keychain exists where I can't open browsers... OK, it's very fricked up. Do I need to do a complete archive and install? Any other options? Thanks
ps Just discovered, I can open a page in main user; from a saved html icon; but not when I enter addresses in the url input field. Weird. Then it goes poof. Maybe its a problem with the url input field? A workaround seems to close it and use command L in firefox.
Already tried resetting my ACL from startup disk.
Message was edited by: raspberryaddiction
Message was edited by: raspberryaddiction

Answer 1

thanks; so in effect; are you saying that theoretically; the conflict ultimately is in one of the .plist files? If so, I could do some educated guesswork and remove suspected ones, one by one...?
BTW; here is the code error message I get when a browser quits:
Process: Safari [10332]
Path: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Identifier: com.apple.Safari
Version: 3.0.4 (5523.15)
Build Info: WebBrowser-55231500~3
Code Type: PPC (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [87]
Date/Time: 2008-03-13 11:05:52.909 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C31)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS at 0x0000000038ff37d4
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90725200 strcmp + 192
1 ...ple.ApplicationServices.ATS 0x9600fdd4 _eATSFontGetGlyphIDsForGlyphNames + 4588
2 ...ple.ApplicationServices.ATS 0x9600ebc0 ATSFontGetGlyphIDsForGlyphNames + 96
3 libCGATS.A.dylib 0x960cfadc atsfont_get_glyphs_for_glyphnames + 44
4 libCGATS.A.dylib 0x960d1e54 getglyphs_for_glyphnames + 56
5 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92d65590 CGFontGetGlyphForGlyphName + 28
6 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92d6551c getchartop + 28
7 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92d64eb0 CGFontGetAutohintTransform + 488
8 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92d71cd8 CGFontCreateGlyphBitmaps32 + 436
9 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92d6483c createmissingbitmaps + 448
10 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92d63b04 CGGlyphLockLockGlyphBitmaps + 360
11 libRIP.A.dylib 0x9626713c ripc_DrawGlyphs + 1132
12 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x930d4ed4 draw_glyphs + 504
13 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92d61354 CGContextShowGlyphsWithAdvances + 540
14 com.apple.WebCore 0x9245b500 WebCore::Font::drawGlyphs(WebCore::GraphicsContext*, WebCore::FontData const*, ...............
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