Unable to minimize safari windows

I am not able to minimize safari windows. not from menu or yellow button which is no longer yellow. Any suggestions?

Hi Graig,
Does this thread topic help you any?
Please let us know.
Eme; )

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Cannot minimize Safari window

After innstallation of latest MAC OS 10.4.3. I cannot minimize Safari window. Clicking on the yellow center button (minus sign) on top left of the browser window leads to some seconds of "reflection", then nothing happens. The Safari version is 2.0.2 (416.12). Any suggestion ? Would be great. Cheers, Romanzer.

Hello again Romanzer; )
If the answer to upgrading to Tiger recently is YES, and you have itunes 6.0 and up then remove the extra files as directed below:
Anwendungen Hilfsprogramme->click->Utilities - > Produkteinführung die Konsole, Blick in system.log u. Konsole Protokoll können Sie diese Meldung in Ihrem Konsole Protokoll finden:
für Nachricht der Architektur i386:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunesHelper.app/Contents/MacO S/iTunesHelper mißgebildete Nachricht (unbekanntes Aroma für Aroma Nr. 0 in LC_UNIXTHREAD Befehl 13 kann nicht Byteaustausch es)
• Anwendungen Hilfsprogramme->click->Utilities->Activity überwachen alle Prozeßentdeckung iTunes, es an zu klicken "beendet" dem roten
Prozeßoctagon unter dem blauen Apple - > System prefrences - > Konten - -> ist LOGON-Einzelteile, itunes klicken an ihn Gebrauch das [ - ], Minus, es zu löschen.
• Zum Anwendungen Itunes Klicken einmal, klicken die Tätigkeiten Menü [ ✿▼ ] Erscheinen-Paket-Inhalt ->Contents - > gehen Betriebsmittel an - > iTunes Helferbewegung die zum Schreibtisch.
• Zu HD>Library>Receipts und zum Abfall gehen alle iTunes pkg Dateien EXCEPT für iTunesX.pkg und iTunesPhoneDriver.pkg
So gehen Sie einfach zum Empfänge Heft, öffnen es, gehen,Modus auszudrucken, das iTune.pkg archiviert zu finden
und setzte in Ihren Abfall (aber leeren Sie sich nicht, bis Sie sichergestellt haben, daß alles dieser für Sie bearbeitet),
alle mögliche iTunes.pkg Dateien AUSGENOMMEN die, die oben erwähnt werden. Sie benötigen die iTunes.pkg Dateien,
die oben erwähnt werden, aber Sie benötigen die nicht in Ihrem Abfall. (NOTE. DO NOT löschen keine anderen Dateien, ausgenommen das iTunes.pkg erwähnt. archiviert) Dann lassen Sie Platte-Hilfsprogramm laufen und reparieren Sie Erlaubnis.
Hoffnungsvoll. alle ahem.. sollte gut sein. Wenn es ist, leeren Sieden Abfall und vergessen Sie über das Problem.
This will in no way affect you music itunes library or ability to by music.
Hope this translates well & helps, I would also check out the German site as Dimaxum pointed you to.Please let us know how you do and if this is related, do you have the message above [i386 ] in your console. I had the same Disk Utility problem in May & this helped. Again let us know how you get on. Good Luck!!
Regards,
Eme♪

Unable to close Safari windows

I am unable to close any windows in Safari.
I am able to expand and minimize them.
I had been unable to open Safari which I resolved by removing the Safari preferences file and have tried repeating this as well as resetting Safari and running general maintenance proceedures such as permissions, scripts, etc. with no success.
Is it possible to reinstall just Safari ( mine is version 2.03) or can this only be done through a system update?
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733 MHz Power PC G4 Mac OS X (10.4)

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I had a MacBook Pro prior to the MacBook 2015. I never had a problem minimizing windows. I really need to have more than one window open at same time, but I can't seem to do this with MacBook. There usually is a white dot in middle where it was yellow in MacBook Pro to minimize the window. There is an icon with double page symbol I can click in the right corner, but when it shows a thumbnail image of each website on one page instead of minimizing the window when I click on it. Is there something I can click on to minimize the window so more than one window appears at the same time? I do not even see line/arrow appear in corners of window to drag the window to a smaller size.

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Hi Kristen,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
Which version of OS X are you using?
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Force Quit Safari.
Press command + option + esc keys together at the same time.
Wait.
When Force Quit window appears, select Safari if not already.
Press Force Quit button at the bottom of the window.
Wait.
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Computer will shut down.
Restart.

Can't close Safari windows

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HI Saul and welcome to Apple Discussions...
First, try restarting your Mac. If that doesn't help...
Your profile indicates you are running 10.4.11 with Safari 3.0.4
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Carolyn

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I am unable to open Safari. It was working yesterday before I installed the update. The update seemed to be automatic when I restarted my computer. I am running 10.9.5. I don't want to lose my contacts, bookmarks etc if I have to delete the app. Any suggestions?

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Try to launch Safari. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
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Rotating thru Safari windows with Command-` behaves oddly in v.5.0. Why?

If one has several Safari windows open at once, one can one-by-one "flip through" them by pressing Command-` (backward-accent/tilde), in turn bringing each new window to the front.
In earlier versions of Safari, Command-` behaves in a very predictable and useful way -- it rotated through all the windows unidirectionally if you keep pressing. So, for example, if you had 7 windows open at once, and kept pressing Command-`, you would first see page 1, then page 2, then page 3, etc., up through page 7, and from page 7 then you would keep going "forward" to page 1 again. The windows would go in a cycle. +This would remain constant even if you closed windows once you arrived at them.+
That's the way it always has been (in my memory), and the way I like it.
HOWEVER, I now have Safari 5.0 with 10.6.4, and it behaves differently! And not at all to my liking.
Instead of rotating through all the windows in order, Command-` now "bounces" back and forth in its direction if you perform any action to any window.
So, for example, now if you have 7 pages open, and want to rotate through them all to see what they are, and if unwanted, close them, the following strange and ANNOYING behavior happens as you repeatedly press "Command-`":
If you're on page 1, you then go to page 2, then page 3 -- and then if you close page 3, and press Command-` again, you DON'T go to page 4, but rather back to page 2 again, then page 1, then page 7 -- and if you close page 7, you then bounce back to page 1, page 2, etc.
This also happens if you do ANY action to the top page -- move its location, enter text in a field, close it, whatever.
Why does Safari do this now? It's totally counter-intuitive and incredibly bothersome, because it's no longer a simple task to flip through all open windows and close the unnecessary ones. Instead, one constantly is bouncing backwards and forwards like one is in a rubber room. And I end up feeling like I'm in a rubber room.
Has anyone else noticed this new manner of Safari behavior? And if so (and most importantly): *Is there any way to change it back to the way it used to be?*
This is important to me because I dislike using tabs and I often have several windows open for a project, which I then often want to (mostly) close and start a new project, etc. I takes way too much time and confusion simply trying to see all open windows with the new behavior.

I am running 10.6.4. It's just that when I fist updated it (on the first day it was available), Apple had not yet added 10.6.4 to the Forum settings. But now it's there and I have updated it in my profile.
Before I do any of your suggested fixes, I would need to know that the behavior my Safari is exhibiting is abnormal. Because I think that nothing is "wrong" with my Safari -- I think this new behavior is built-in and it is the way it's supposed to be. So that all the fixes in the world won't change anything.
So, what I'd really like to see is a report from someone --anyone -- that Safari 5.0 behaves the same way for them, or differently for them.
I just did a test myself and it took exactly one minute. Can someone do it for me and report back?
Here's the simple test:
"Minimize" all your existing Safari windows to get them out of the way.
Open a new window, for example, a Google home page. Type in the number "1" in a text field.
Open a second Google (or whatever) page, type in a "2" in a text field.
Do this all the way up to 7 open pages.
Then start hitting "Command-`." If you just hit Command-` repeatedly and do nothing else, you will indeed rotate through the windows like so: 7-6-5-4-3-2-1-7-6-5-4-3.....etc.
NOW HERE'S THE TEST. In the middle of this cycle, close window #4. What happens next to you? In the "old" Safari, you'd keep cycling backwards through the windows 3-2-1-7-6-5-3-2-1-7...etc.
But in Safari 5.0, this what happens to me: After closing window #4, I "bounce back" and now I'm heading in the opposite direction, so that after closing the window #4 it goes 5-6-7-1-2-3-5-6-7-1...etc.
Continue the test by now closing window #6 when you get back to it. Once again, you will "bounce" backwards. So that you will be going 1-2-3-5-6-[close window 6]-5-3-2-1-7-5-3...etc.!
Tell me: is that how Safari behaves for you? (Or anyone reading this?) If so, then my Safari isn't "broken," it's behaving exactly as it is designed to be behaving.
So if that is the case (which I suspect), then my question is not how to "fix" Safari, because fixing it won't alter the behavior, but rather: Are there are settings that can be changed or keyboard shortcuts altered or whatever that can restore the "old Safari" way of behaving?

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