Launching Safari Via Dock's Icon

I am a newbie to an iMac, but an experienced user of Power Macs, and find it very frustrating that as of yet I am not able to simply double click on the Safari icon on my iMac's Dock in order to get on the Internet. Every time I attempt to do so, a message crops up about Safari not being connected to the Internet and with the Diagnostics option a troubleshooting solution.
Instead, thus far my only method to connect is thru selecting Network under System Preferences, which seems a roundabout way of doing things. My previous usage of Internet Explorer with Power Macs enabled me to merely click on the desktop icon to get connected.
Is it because I am using a USB Dial-Up Modem that entrance to the Internet is not streamlined or is there some setting choice or some other obstacle preventing a breezy start-up?

Hi,
Is it because I am using a USB Dial-Up Modem that entrance to the Internet is not streamlined
The sounds like the cause. Have you configured the modem (via System Preferences > Network) such that it will auto-connect when OS X attempts to connect to the internet?
Unfortunately, there's no way to configure internet access on a per-application basis, so you either auto-connect for everything that wants access or manually connect when you only want a certain application (such as Safari) to access the 'net.
You could probably create an AppleScript that will start the dial-up connection and then launch Safari to make things a bit more seamless for you. If that interests you, ask how to do this in the [AppleScript forum|http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=724].

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Hi guys,
I'm attempting to write an applescript which launches a small Safari window and loads the URL of the national Radio station ([BBC Radio 1|http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/radio1]).
So far, I have:
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make new document
set URL of document 2 to "http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/radio1"
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This works ok, but I'd like to further customise the script by:
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Message was edited by: snkhan

Saj wrote: 1. Remove the bookmarks and URL fields;
I can't think of a way to remove the bookmarks and url fields without it affecting all of Safari's windows.
Here's the way I would write the script...
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Hi,
I accidentally removed the "@" icon from the far right side of the Dock (it launches safari). Can anyone tell me how I can get it back?
Thanks,
Josef

Josef Sullivan wrote:
I accidentally removed the "@" icon from the far right side of the Dock (it launches safari). Can anyone tell me how I can get it back?
*Hi Joseph, Welcome (Back)* to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
Hmmnnn, I did not know you could launch Safari that way. The "@" usually is a URL that has been dragged to that location.
The standard way to get an App onto the Dock is to go to the Apps folder and drag the app to where you want it in the left portion of the dock. It will then stay there until you right (Control) click on it and ask that it be removed from the Dock.
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Hi ~Bee. You came in while I was typing.
Message was edited by: Jpfresno

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I can't launch Safari. When I right click on the icon, the "Application not responding" is grey and no matter what method I use to Force quit, I get no response.

Do a backup.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart the computer, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
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Hey there KeelyBoley,
If you are still not able to quit Safari, or shutdown/restart your Mac, I would force quit the application with any of these instructions that work for you:
OS X: How to quit an unresponsive application using Force Quit
Choose Quit by right-clicking or control-clicking on an app's icon in the Dock.
If your app does not close using the steps above, use any of these steps to force the app to quit:
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Press Command-Option-Esc, then select the unresponsive app from the Force Quit window that appears, and click Force Quit.
If Safari continues to become unresponsive such as in this case, a 3rd party plug-in may be the culprit, and this article will help you troubleshoot that:
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or
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On its own, mac goes online and launches safari. WHY?.

i have a powermac G5, but am using an ATT dial-up. i know.
when we wake up the mac,
more often than not, it immediately starts dialing out, going online and then launching safari.
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First off, you might have better luck posting in the correct forum. This is the forum for eMac support. Having stated this, I'll take a stab at your problem. I think it has to do with the way you have configured your Internet access. See this page (specifically question 4) for more information:
Frequently Asked Questions for PPP Modem Connections
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1. Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
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4. Click the PPP tab.
5. Click PPP Options.
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7. Click OK.
8. Click Apply Now ("Save" prior to Mac OS X 10.1).
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Back up all data if you haven’t already done so. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to the state it’s in now.
Quit Safari if it’s running. Then select  ▹ Force Quit... from the menu bar. A small window will open with a list of running applications. Safari may appear in that list, even though you quit it. If so, select it and press return. Close the window.
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Caches/com.apple.Safari
Caches/com.apple.WebKit.PluginProcess
Caches/Metadata/Safari
Preferences/com.apple.WebKit.PluginHost.plist
Preferences/com.apple.WebKit.PluginProcess.plist
Saved Application State/com.apple.Safari.savedState
Leave the Library folder open. Try Safari again. If it works now, stop here. Close the Library folder.
Step 2
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
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Quit Terminal. Launch Safari and test.
Step 3
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Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies
Preferences/com.apple.Safari.LSSharedFileList.plist
Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
Preferences/com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist
Preferences/com.apple.WebFoundation.plist
PubSub/Database
Safari
(Note: you are not moving the Safari application. You’re moving a folder named “Safari.”)
Try again. This time Safari should perform normally, but your settings and bookmarks will be lost.
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Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
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Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
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