Safari does not open some sites

Since last one year Safari has not been opening certain sites, so had to load Google Chrome as a back up.
Recently bought a new Macbook, and got an upgrade of OS X to Yosemite. Thought now the problem is going
to be over but disappointed that even the latest software has not cleared the issue. Have tried some of things that
are suggested in the forums, but so far no foolproof solution. So wondering whether have to resort again to Google chrome

It sounds to me that you are experiencing the "unexpectedly losing connection" error that doesn't allow web pages (even some of Apple's pages) to load. I'm experiencing the same thing and after clearing out my website data and turning off extensions and a host of other attempts to fix, I still get the same issue.
I've switched over to Chrome for now after using Safari from the very beginning until I see an update that fixes it.

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Safari not opening some site addresses - highlights only partially & then will not open.

Safari is not opening some site addresses - only partial address is highlighted, then stops. I am new to Mac.
Thanks,
KM

Go step by step and test.
1. Power cycle
     Power off the router. Unplug it from the wall. Wait a while.
     Plug it back to the wall. Power the router on. Wait until all the lights are lit properly.
     It will take a   while.
     Restart the computer.
     Start up in Safe Mode
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212
2 Empty Caches
    Safari > Preference > Advanced
    Checkmark the box for "Show Develop menu in menu bar".
    Develop menu will appear in the Safari menu bar.
    Click Develop and select "Empty Caches" from the dropdown.
3. Reset Safari.
    Click Safari in the menu bar.
    From the drop down select "Reset Safari".
      Click "Reset".
4. Safari > Preferences > Privacy > Cookies and all other website data:
     Press “Remove All Website Data” button
5. Turn off Extensions if any, and launch Safari.
    Safari > Preferences > Extensions

After mistakenly clicking a link, my safari does not open automatically and unexpected webs open up.

I am using MacBook Air with Yosemite OS. After mistakenly clicking a link, my safari does not open automatically and unexpected webs open up. Could you please give me suggestions on how to fix this problem? Thank you

That's a bit vague, but you may have installed the "VSearch" trojan. Remove it as follows.
Malware is always changing to get around the defenses against it. These instructions are valid as of now, as far as I know. They won't necessarily be valid in the future. Anyone finding this comment a few days or more after it was posted should look for more recent discussions or start a new one.
Back up all data before proceeding.
Step 1
From the Safari menu bar, select
          Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Extensions
Uninstall any extensions you don't know you need, including any that have the word "Spigot," "Trovi," or "Conduit" in the description. If in doubt, uninstall all extensions. Do the equivalent for the Firefox and Chrome browsers, if you use either of those.
Reset the home page and default search engine in all the browsers, if it was changed.
Step 2
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.vsearch.agent.plist
Right-click or control-click the line and select
          Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item named "com.vsearch.agent.plist" selected. Drag the selected item to the Trash. You may be prompted for your administrator login password.
Repeat with each of these lines:
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.daemon.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.helper.plist
Restart the computer and empty the Trash. Then delete the following items in the same way:
/Library/Application Support/VSearch
/System/Library/Frameworks/VSearch.framework
~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ConduitNPAPIPlugin.plugin
Some of these items may be absent, in which case you'll get a message that the file can't be found. Skip that item and go on to the next one.
The problem may have started when you downloaded and ran an application called "MPlayerX." That's the name of a legitimate free movie player, but the name is also used fraudulently to distribute VSearch. If there is an item with that name in the Applications folder, delete it, and if you wish, replace it with the genuine article from mplayerx.org.
This trojan is often found on illegal websites that traffic in pirated content such as movies. If you, or anyone else who uses the computer, visit such sites and follow prompts to install software, you can expect more of the same, and worse, to follow. Never install any software that you downloaded from a bittorrent, or that was downloaded by someone else from an unknown source.
In the Security & Privacy pane of System Preferences, select the General tab. The radio button marked Anywhere should not be selected. If it is, click the lock icon to unlock the settings, then select one of the other buttons. After that, don't ignore a warning that you are about to run or install an application from an unknown developer.
Then, still in System Preferences, open the App Store or Software Update pane and check the box marked
          Install system data files and security updates
if it's not already checked.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
          Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

Does not open some pictures at Picasa

Firefox does not open some pictures on picasa where IE opens them all.
This only happens at Picasa, with everyones albums. Only about 1/2 show up and the ones that do not cannot be opened.

It is possible that you clicked "Block Images" in the right click context menu while trying to save an image.
See:
* [[Images or animations do not show]]
*A way to see which images are blocked is to click the favicon ([[Site Identity Button]]) on the left end of the location bar.
*A click on the "More Information" button will open the Security tab of the "Page Info" window (also accessible via "Tools > Page Info").
*Go to the <i>Media</i> tab of the "Tools > Page Info" window.
*Select the first image link and scroll down though the list with the Down arrow key.
*If an image in the list is grayed and there is a check-mark in the box "<i>Block Images from...</i>" then remove that mark to unblock the images from that domain.

Firefox will not open some sites, no error is reported, it just sits forever with the status bar half way.

Firefox can not open some sites but no error is reported
== URL of affected sites ==
http://www.aol.com

yea, that has happenend to me as well.
Well this is what has happenend to me anyway.
I will go to the apple site and enter the discussions forum, and the blue bar in the url box will jsut hang for minutes sometimes. THen the page will finally open as well as the blue bar will show up all the way.
But then i will click on say , the safari forum, and the blue bar will open just alittle, though the page will not, and ill wait anoither 2 minue and it finally open.
is this what they call, "hung up", or "hanging?"
but mine doesnt time out, i get no error message. Just th spinning ball , and sometimes no spinning ball.
lol, whoes post is this?
sorry

Safari does not open me, that leaves unexpectedly closed. but it is always so. No matter if you reboot the laptop. I have MBP 13 "8GB ram, 2.4 GHz processor

hello.
safari does not open me, that leaves unexpectedly closed. but it is always so. No matter if you reboot the laptop. help please.
how do I remove Safari and reinstall it because when I go to delete the application from the finder, goes that you can not perform this action because OS X does not leave.
There leave something that leaves me open to give the safari:
Process:         Safari [704]
Path:            /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Identifier:      com.apple.Safari
Version:         7.0.2 (9537.74.9)
Build Info:      WebBrowser-7537074009000000~3
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [143]
Responsible:     Safari [704]
User ID:         501
Date/Time:       2014-03-24 21:42:17.094 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: 8151A932-FF73-155E-135A-1ECFBF824217
Sleep/Wake UUID: 8A361AC7-3227-463F-A0D8-A245BB1474E4
Crashed Thread: 14
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: EXC_I386_GPFLT
Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x000000011294a3b5 lookUpImpOrForward + 523
1   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x000000011294a198 lookUpImpOrNil + 20
2   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x000000011293f919 class_getMethodImplementation + 40
3   com.apple.AppKit                        0x0000000113ea589f _NSSubclassOverridesSelector + 38
4   com.apple.AppKit                        0x0000000113ea578f _NSLogOverriddenIdentifierForObject + 68
5   com.apple.AppKit                        0x0000000113eca5e4 -[NSView setUserInterfaceItemIdentifier:] + 54

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Safari does not open in home page.

Safari does not open with the "home page" set in preferences. Always opens with the last page viewed prior to quitting.

I have the same problem (10.7.2., Safari 5.1.2 on an iMac). In System>Preferences>General >Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps. (Uncheck). The box is unchecked. In Safari>Preferences>General I have the following settings:
New windows open with: Same page
New tabs open with: Same page
Homepage: http://www.nytimes.com/
Whenever I open Safari I get a blank page (and I have to click on the Home Page icon). This has never happened in my Power PC with Lion (now sadly in computer heaven) nor my MacBook with Snow Leopard. Closing windows individually or closing Safari itself doesn't matter. Re-opening Safari gets me a blank page. Any advice?

Safari is not opening some webpage showing the error: /usr/local/cache/files/block.html;400

Hi
safari is not opening some webpage showing the error: /usr/local/cache/files/block.html;400
Please help me.
thanks

Hey blissfull71,
If you are having issues loading certain webpages in Safar, you may find the information and troubleshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:
Safari 6/7 (Mavericks): If Safari can’t open a website
Cheers,
- Brenden

I have noticed that Safari does not support some HTML commands on apple operating systems. Can anyone help with this issue please?

I have noticed that Safari does not support some HTML commands on this operating platform. Can anybody throw any light on this issue please?

Examples.

Updated lion os to 10.7.5. Safari does not open. Any suggestions?

updated lion os to 10.7.5. Safari does not open. Any suggestions?

make sure you're opening Safari from the main Applications folder & use Software Update to make sure everything's up to date.
Please paste the crash report here - they often give an idea of what's wrong.

Safari does not open instantly. always previous windows there . difficult get rid.

safari does not open instantly. always previous windows there . difficult to get rid

With Safari open press Command + Option + Esc to force quit Safari.
That should close the previous windows.
And open System Preferences > General
Select: Close windows when quitting an application

Safari does not open pdf

Just began to notice that Safari does not open PDF files anymore. PDF's do not automatically download either. One solution I checked was to removed anything with PDF from internet plugins in LIBRARY, but I have none. I was directed to install Adobe Reader. I already have Acrobat Pro installed. Shouldn't preview be what is needed to view PDF? Sugestions?

What I ended up doing was to to follow these dirs:
ellecee55
Feb 15, 2013 3:19 PM (in response to phreaky_d)
Hi,
I also installed Adobe Reader because an ebook I downloaded wouldn't open without it.
I then chose Adobe Reader as my default. When I later uninstalled it using the Trash Me app-which usually clears everything out-I couldn't get Preview back as the default.
I went to the "Library/Internet plug-ins" path and trashed the two Adobe Reader plug ins that were there. I used Secure Empty Trash, and then shut down completely and did not check the box to reopen any windows. Then I restarted the Mac.
I not only shut down Safari, I closed all applications and shut down the Mac completely being sure to uncheck the "relaunch with windows open" button. When I turned the Mac back on, I opened Safari and went to an online PDF that I had been trying to open previously to test the app. It opened this PDF using Preview and showed it in Safari.
I then tested using a PDF from my files and it opened in Preview.
Quit Safari.
Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type of copy / paste: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins
Click Go then move the Adobe PDF Browser plugin from the Internet Plug-Ins folder to the Trash.
Relaunch Safari to test.
This worked for me and Safari now reads PDFs as is always did.

Firefox will not open some sites and does not function on those opened

Firefox does not open comcast.net and fails to respond on other websites. It opens others but does not function once opened.
== URL of affected sites ==
http://
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.86 Safari/533.4

I am an ordinary user and use FireFox on a Windows XP pro sp2 OS.
I can open and run FireFox by a variety of methods, and do not need to have any firefox: folders, files, or shortcuts on my Desktop unless I so wish.
I suspect you have a rather none standard installation. The quickest solution may well be to uninstall FireFox ( which you have presumably not been able to use anyway) and reinstall it. I would suggest; at least initially; you just use the standard default installation you are offered.
You will probably find this page of use, the [http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/3.6.13/releasenotes/ Release Notes], it includes links for downloading FireFox, and has advice and information about installing and downloading.
I am sure you will have further questions when you try to install but click on the blue link above and look at that page and then post back again and I am sure someone will try to help you.
I am assuming that you are already on the Internet with a browser such as Internet Explorer, and a broadband connection, or are you trying to install from a CD or something that has a FireFox install file on it. (if so what are you using, and what is the version of firefox)

Safari will not open secure sites

Safari will not open any secure sites with a secure login. Anyone have an idea why?

Same issue here and yes, I can get to the secure sites using Firefox, Camino & Opera and no, when logged into the new user account I still can't access secure sites with Safari.
Also, I have been unable to purchase anything off of iTunes since this issue started. Does iTunes use Safariin some way? Any idea why the two things seem to be linked?
After successfully browsing Music Store & selecting the desired purchase, I hit the "Buy" button and get an error message saying that iTunes could not connect to the Music Store. "An unknown error ocurred (0x80010003)." It suggests I make sure my network connection is active & try again, but I'm clearly online.

Safari Will Not Open Https sites

Safari will not open any https sites. When attempted, I get the following type of error:
Safari can’t open the page “https://support.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/. . . . . . . . because it could not connect to the server “support.apple.com”.
The problem started happening about three weeks ago, probably after one of Apple's updates. I can log on to the same https sites using any other browser. The problem also exists no matter what user I am logged into, including root.
I have emptied the cache, reset Safari, repaired permissions, repaired the disk using Disk utlility, run ToolTech Pro on the drive, tossed preferences, tossed various keychange files, but nothing solves the problem. There are other posts claiming to have the same problem, but the suggested fix does not work for me.
Any tips would be appreciated.
Power Mac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

I also had this problem and solved it. I use Little
Snitch which establishes rules for blocking ports to
see when applications phone home. For Safari I
accidently blocked port 443 which is SSL or https.
Check to see that you have not blocked this port
through a firewall setting. Of course if this were a
firewall setting all browsers would not be able to
access https websites.
****, I thought I thought of everything, but I completely failed to consider Little Snitch, as I could never see myself accidently denying Safari connections. However, apparently I did just that. Thank you, you win the prize.
Power Mac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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