All websites garbled in Safari
Hello everyone,
I searched the topics in this forum about my problem, and I have already learned a lot. The responses were incredibly helpful providing advice--so thank you. Unfortunately, none of the existing suggestions worked for me, so I hope someone can shed new light on this problem.
Safari is garbling every website that I load. Chunks of each website do get rendered properly, but then there are long strings of code that show up on screen. Here is a screenshot example, when I pull up the BBC news site:
http://pages.nyu.edu/~mcd321/screenshot.jpg
Normally, the website should look like:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
(From what I can tell, the garbled text is just an output of the website title and then all of the comment tags starting with <!-- )
My problem seems to be identical to the one discussed in this forum already at <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2037658&
I read that whole thread and followed all of the suggestions, but none of them resolved my problem. I am running Safari 2.0.4(419.3) on OSX 10.4.7 on an iBook G4. I have run Software Updater and am up to date. I searched for Helvetica Fractions and Times Phonetic, but as far as I can tell, they are not on my computer. Using Font Book, I resolved duplicates, validated all fonts, and disabled classic fonts. Using Disk Utility, I repaired disk permissions. Safari was still garbling, so then I emptied all fonts from ~\Library\Fonts and \Library\Fonts. I removed all but the 8 essential fonts from \System\Library\Fonts. I used Font Finagler to clean my font cache. Then I restarted the system. And it's still producing the same garble.
Any other ideas? Thanks for reading this whole post--I would appreciate any information or ideas that anyone has.
iBook G4, 14" Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Hello, I want to add that I have the exact same problem. Just started two days ago. I use Internet Explorer now until I can get a fix.
Went to the Apple store and no one in the store had ever seen or heard of this problem. (I brough the laptop along for clarity). I was informed to save all user data on a sep. drive, and reinstall OSX. I haven't done that yet.
Also, I noticed that certain emails in the iMail account I use come in with the same garbled appearance. It seems like all the HTML and flash code or something.
Can anyone help?
Thanks, Lisa
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