Safari Not Opening - Possible Solution

Recently, my Safari has been bombing. It wouldn't open. I would just get the pinwheel. I was able to get it restarted by following the suggestions here. A couple weeks ago, I couldn't get it back at all. I did everything that was suggested here in the forums and nothing worked.
So I decided to try one more thing. I restored my Safari files from my Time Machine from August when it was working. This didn't work either. It still bombed out right away.
My solution: I just let it sit like that and about 5 minutes later, the Safari browser popped up. I closed out of Safari and restarted and it opened up right away. It looks like it's just getting hung up trying to something. Not sure what that is. But, now I have my Safari back and working.
Hope this helps.

Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the positive feedback. Very nice to hear you found that solution!!
Carolyn

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