Since downloading Yosemite Safari will not open or takes forever to open 3-5 minutes. Help would be greatly appreciated

I have a problem with Yosemite working with Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, although I use Safari more than the other two it is the worst with this problem.
They all take forever to open since downloading Yosemiite. Safari does not open at all sometimes. help would be appreciated

Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list.  In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive.  If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
Also see:
Reinstall OS X Without Erasing the Drive
OS X Yosemite- Reinstall OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
                 if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

Similar Messages

  • Since downloading Yosemite, Safari will close itself out at times and I loose all the pages I had open.  How can I stop this from happening?

    Since downloading Yosemite, Safari will close itself out, when I reopen it all of my pages are gone.  How do I stop this from happening?

    But if iit won't stay open, then it's quitting unexpectedly which is the same as a crash.
    There has to be a reason for that which a crash report should reveal.
    Check ~/Library > Logs > Diagnostic Reports

  • My MacBook Pro is running VERY slowly. After reading other questions and responses, I ran an EtreCheck, but do not know how to post the report here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    My MacBook Pro is running VERY slowly. After reading other questions and responses, I ran an EtreCheck, but do not know how to post the report here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    My MacBook Pro is running VERY slowly. After reading other questions and responses, I ran an EtreCheck, but do not know how to post the report here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  • Since downloading Yosemite Flash Player not working. Have downloaded Flash Player for Mac, but still not working. Is there a fix for this? Thanks.

    Since downloading Yosemite Flash Player not working. Have downloaded Flash Player for Mac, but still not working. Is there a fix for this? Thanks.

    1. System Preferences >  Flash Player > Advanced >  Delete  All
         Press the "Delete All" button.
         Install Adobe Flash Player.
        http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
       Download it first.
       The next step is important.
       Click Safari in the menubar and select “Quit Safari”.
       If it doesn’t quit, Force Quit it.
       Press command + option + esc keys together at the same time. Wait.
       When Force Quit window appears, select the application if not already.
       Press Force Quit button at the bottom of the window. Wait.
       Application will quit.
        Follow the prompts and install it.
        Restart computer. Relaunch Safari.
    2.  Allow  Plug-ins
        Safari > Preferences > Security
        Internet Plug-ins >  "Allow  plug-ins"
        Enable it.

  • Since installing Yosemite Mail will not work correctly.

    The number of unread e-mails is not showing correctly on the inbox icon, and doesn't show on the dock icon. Although i have set it to "do not store deleted e-mails on the server" every time it connects to the server it displays the e-mails i have just deleted. It is that bad that i am now using Outlook as my Mail software. Are you able to go back to your previous Operating System, in my case Mavericks, it was far far better than Yosemite!!!
    Thanking you in anticipation. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Back up all data. Rebuild the mailbox.

  • Safari will not launch- any help would be greatly appreciated

    This past week my safari began to fail to launch. It worked fine monday, on my friends home wireless. However when we booted it up Tuesday at our home-also wireless- it would not open. All other internet access works fine-ie ichat, itunes etc., but we can't get it to open with anything. When you click the icon it bounces as it were about to launch but never gets the black carrot under it. I opened the system activity monitor, and it also does not show it launching. I attempted to reinstall it using the number 2 setup disk, but that didn't seam to make a difference. It also will not launch if clicking on a saved html file nor on a hyperlink.... I tried moving the safari file folder and preferences file out of the library onto the desktop and restarting it(I had read that on a different post) but that had no effect...As I am used to working on a plain old IBM computer I'm not sure how else to trouble shoot the mac as its my girlfriends... any help would be greatly appreciated as we can't access the internet on hers to even download netscape or internet explorer

    Your steps so far are OK but you may want to try:
    1 Trash your user library Caches folder (House Icon with short name in Finder window (hard drive window)GOTO:House icon > Library folder > caches folder
    2 Trash the com.apple.Safari.plist file in User library > preferences folder > Safari.plist as well as removing the library Safari folder its self.
    3 you can selectivly re-install Safari 2.0 from your OS Tiger Install disk 1, (see Knowledge base article 301229 for how to just select the Safari Application) without doing a complete system Archive and Install.
    4. Create a new Test user account on the system and test how Safari responds in the Test user, see if its a user related issue and not system issue.
    5. Still no Safari response? have to do an Archive and install (not preserving user and network settings)article 107120
    PS. Issue may be related to actual internet connection connectivity, power cycle cable modem and router or airport if using one as well as the computer(keep unplugged for 3-5 min) and plug the cable modem in and then the router/airport then power on the computer. Do the Airport Admin utiliy (applications, utilities on HD_1)update.
    - do a hard reset of airport knowledge base article 108044(Express base) and 107451 (Extreme base)
    - Check with internet provider for connection issues "cannot find server" ect.

  • I installed itunes 11 and now it will not open any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!

    I installed itunes 11 and now it will not open any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!

    Hi
    Can you use the mouse to access and start System Preferences?
    When you rest the mouse over a dock icon, does its name pop up?
    What happens if you open an application by ctrl-clicking on the icon then selecting Open?
    Bob

  • Help iMac w/Lion. Virus/malware Safari can't shutdown. Got pop up saying I won a prize. Did not select OK. Have to force shutdown. On restart of Safari get same pop up. Locks up Safari. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    PiCked up a virus/malware please help me get rid of it. While browsing with Safari got pop up saying I won a prize. Click OK to find out what I won. Did not click Ok, but cannot close Safari without using forced shutdown. Powering down computer and restarting then selecting Safari brings up same prize window. Just installed Trend Microsoftware for Mac. It's scanning now. Don't think it will work.
    If I open another on same iMac everything seems ok.
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks

    I am also running Lion and had the same problem: a persistent popup on top of a half-opened Safari window saying that I had won a prize and should click OK to claim it.  If I forced Safari to quit, the same pages and popup menu would appear when I then reopened Safari.  From what I can tell, the problem results simply from the fact that Safari in Lion defaults to auto-reopening web pages that were open when Safari last quit, including those suspicious pages that may have prompted the user to force-quit Safari in the first place.  I solved the problem this way:
    (1)  After force-quitting Safari, I went to my user Library folder and found the Saved Application State folder within.  I then found the folder for Safari (com.apple.Safari.savedState), opened it and deleted its contents.  Now the next time I open Safari, there will be no pages to auto-reopen.
    (2)  Since this problem could happen again, I decided to disable the auto-reopen feature in Safari.  I did this by highlighting the "com.apple.Safari.savedState" file and choosing the File-->Get Info command, and then in the Get Info box, I turned on the Locked checkbox.  This prevents Safari from adding any files to this folder.
    This solution has worked well for me, and it has the advantage of not requiring the user to reset Safari.  It also preserves Lion's auto-reopen feature for all other applications.
    I need to give credit to David Pogue for the information I used to solve this problem.  He describes this procedure on page 169 of his book, Mac OSX Lion, the missing manual.
    Steve

  • Lenovo Tablet 2 Installation Problems - Help would be GREATLY appreciated as Lenovo WILL NOT HELP.

    Hi everyone.  I've been pulling my hair out with this and I'm just about at my breaking point after 15 some hours of messing with this but I thought I would give it one last shot.
    I have a Lenovo Tablet 2 that originally came with Windows 8 and later was upgraded via the store to 8.1.  When I went to do a complete format and re-install it asked me for media.  This product does not come with media. I figured the worst thing was that I would have to go the long way and install Windows without the recovery partition and reinstall all the drivers manually.  Boy was I wrong.  I booted to my UEFI enabled USB Windows 8.1 installer stick which was created using the new Mediacreationtool that Microsoft released to make either an ISO or USB stick.  Knowing this is UEFI only (more on that later), I downloaded the ISO and created the USB stick using RUFUS.  That booted fine and i blew away all the partitions and started the install.  Install goes fine until the very last step and says "windows could not update the computer's boot configuration".  The end.  Game over.  I can't get past this.  I've tried the following:
    1. Created a DaRT disc and did a complete clean of the drive
    2. tried a Windows 10 Disc - same thing
    3. Tried to edit the BCD using bcdedit command (more on that later) and nothing.
    I've probably done a half dozen other random things and I'm still back at the same position here.  The big issue with this device is that it is 32BIT UEFI only BIOS.  Terrible to work with because everything considers UEFI to be a 64bit only function so there isn't much that I can even get to boot.  
    Back to BCD Edit.  Anything I try to do just gives me the result of "The boot configuration data store could not be opened.  The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid.".  I cannot createstore, edit the store, or do anything with it.  
    Again, i'm at wits end here.  I contacted Lenovo and it's out of warranty so they told me to pound sand.  I asked them just for a recovery media which every device should come with and **bleep** the OEMs for not doing that aymore and they told me to go pound the same mound of sand.  Help would be GREATLY appreciated.  This thing is slowly walking it's way to the trash can.  It's a mental thing at this point now and I have to get this working.  Please help.  Thank you.

    Yup, we had to do a clean install and same issue nothing will work after a stock clean install of windows 8.1 pro or 8 pro or 8n or 8.1n or any 8-1 for that mater we tried 6 loads with same issue on the IO file for the atom CPU Chipset...When you try to download the drivers from there site for the IO drivers and install it stop there and does not work with there Leveno drivers and if out of warentee they do not even care if there own leveno drivers for 8.1 do not work with 8.1 for the IO drivers on Leveno download site...When we called Microsoft they even sugest getting another tablet from another better supported MFG. WOW I own 4 Leveno products and almost got a new tablet a few nights ago but will not get any more leveno products till I research the issues they have with stock roms! Reinstalls should be much more friendly and updates should be listed correctly on the web site...They do not say it is a ported win8.0 frankinstien windows load when you buy their tablet. But they should say it is kinda windows 8.0 almost and that only there usb key will let you reaload the hack-up windows the tablet needs.

  • I recently upgraded my 4s to a 5s. the verizon store took my old phone for a trade in. i cannot get any of my pictures to download from icloud. my photo stream folder only has a small percentage of the photos in it. any help would be greatly appreciated.

    i recently upgraded my 4s to a 5s. the verizon store took my old phone for a trade in. i cannot get any of my pictures to download from icloud. my photo stream folder only has a small percentage of the photos in it. any help would be greatly appreciated.

    That's possible if he didn't connect to a WiFi hotspot after taking them.  I don't think the "Personal" Photo Stream uploads over Cellular, unless they changed it since the last time I used it.
    If that's the case, then the photos likely didn't upload to Photo Stream and are stuck on the phone.
    And you're not going to be able to get them back, either.

  • Since the last IOS update, I still can't drag distribution lists from my contacts to my email.  Apple has been absolutely no help, in spite of contacting them 5 times on this subject.  Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

    Since the last IOS update, I still can't drag distribution lists from my contacts to my email.  Apple has been absolutely no help, in spite of contacting them 5 times on this subject.  Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
    I have IOS  7.0.1 and updates are current.
    Pags1970

    No Mac can run any version of iOS, that is for iDevices only.
    Macs run OS X. What version of that do you have?

  • I have an ipod 2  just bought an ipod air and would like to transfer everything over from ipod 2. i backed up the 2 in itunes and when i connect the air it does not even show up. any help would be greatly appreciated.

    I have an ipod 2  just bought an ipod air and would like to transfer everything over from ipod 2. i backed up the 2 in itunes and when i connect the air it does not even show up. any help would be greatly appreciated.

    sorry not ipod 2 but an ipad 2

  • TS4079 I use the mic symbol on the iPad to get my lectures typed as I read them off, the iPads not typing what i say anymore so I'm not sure whats going on.  Ay help would be greatly appreciated.

    I use the mic symbol on the iPad to get my lectures typed in 'Pages' as I read them off, the iPads not typing what i say anymore so I'm not sure whats going on.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Try turning Siri off and on again. Siri must be enabled for Dictation to be enabled. Settings>General>Siri>off. Give it a minute or so and them turn Siri on again.

  • I have an iphone 4s and i keep getting an error message when ever i try to activate i have already restored the phone and it still will not work. any help would be greatly appreciated

    I have an iphone 4s and i keep getting an error message when ever i try to activate i have already restored the phone and it still will not work. any help would be greatly appreciated

    Activation issues are almost always the result of a device that has been hacked or jailbroken.  If that is the case, no support can be provided here.

  • My ex girlfriend wiped my 6yo daughters imac and will not give me the 4 digit passcode pin. How do i get past this to reinstall mountain lion ? Any help would be greatly appreciated

    Could anybody offer me advice on what I can do to reinstall mountain lion on my daughters imac as my ex wiped the whole computer via find my iphone and will not give me the 4 digit passcode ? Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated..

    Take it to an Apple Store, have proof of purchase with you.

Maybe you are looking for