Safari doesn't launch after installing Mavericks

A couple of days ago, I installed OSX Mavericks, slow at the beggining then everybody goes OK, until I tried to open Safari, no way, I restarted the iMac with no success, the upper bar shows as open, at the side of the apple logo, can open the safari menu there, tried restore safari, unsuccessful too. The display goes a little dimm  when "launching" safari, the icon on the tool bar jumps 2 or 3 times and nothing else happens.

My solution: repair permissions didn't work either, so after downloading the last version of Google Chrome, I decided I will try my last attempt to launch Safari, I used the three fingers gesture to see the open browsers: Firefox, Chrome, and there it was Safari, I clicked on it, and opened right away, then I click the yellow button and it goes on the right of the tool bar, as usual. Tried a few times, with the same result, so Safari opened all the time, just  didn't showed, don't know why, hope this helps to someone else.

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