MacBook Air update breaks Safari

I just updated my MacBook Air this evening, and now Safari refuses to work. I've repaired permissions, dumped the preferences for Safari, tried restoring from Time Machine, restarted several times, and still Safari hangs up on opening and refuses to start. Firefox works, but not Safari. Anyone else having issues with this? Suggestions?

Karen,
Unfortunately... this is where it gets a little tricky. The fact that Safari works without an issue in another user would indicate that the problem was not with the update (itself) or the application. But rather something that was modified via the update which affects the Safari application. A plug-in, a toolbar, something along those lines.
I'm not a "wiz" when it comes to Safari troubleshooting of this nature but the first place to start would be with the application itself. If you go to the Safari.app in Finder and "Show Package Contents" it should be bring you into a new view that shows one folder (contents). Within that folder I have the following items: (this is off a clean installed, test OS environment)
- CodeResources
- Info.plist
- MacOS (folder)
- PkgInfo
- Resources (folder)
- SafairSyncClient
- version.plist
One thing you might also want to try would be to delete the following folders in your User/Library
- Safari (entire folder)
- Preferences (content of folder, leave folder)
- Caches (content of folder, leave folder)
- Internet Plug-Ins (content of folder, leave folder)
It's also possible that there's something with QuickTime that might be affecting Safari. It seems like a stretch, but the next step might be to remove and re-install all associations of that Application as well.
Make sure whenever removing an application you also remove its receipt so Software Updater is "up to date" on what's installed or not installed. That folder is located off the root level Library, not the User level.
Ultimately an Archive & Install might be the best solution, however the fact that the application works in another user would typically indicate that an Archive & Install would not resolve the issue but rather bring it right back. With that being said, an Archive & Install (without preserving user and settings) would then do the trick. But it would involve reimporting your entire user directory, which may take a while.

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