Troubleshooting Safari 1.0 (#12): Tips for improving stability; Changing preferences

Tips for improving stability In addition to our previously noted procedures for improving Safari 1.0's stability, which include deleting every file associated with the application and then re-installing, as well as deleting the com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist file found in the /Library/Preferences directory, here are a few additional tips that have worked for readers:

Delete the Cookies.plist file found in the /Library/Cookies directory (from your home folder). Make a backup of this file first. If this is not the problem, you will lose your cookies.

Search for SIMBL in the Finder. Deleting this folder will delete any plugins such as PithHelmet which you may have installed on Safari. You can re-install them later.

Internet Explorer and Safari changing each others' preferences MacFixIt reader Jim describes a problem which we were able to duplicate in-house where Internet Explorer and Safari are able to modify each others' image download preference: "I created a separate location for the downloads used by Safari's 'Download this image to Disk.' Then I noticed that my Explorer download preferences had changed to the Safari location. When I changed the Explorer preferences back to the correct location, I opened Safari to check that preferences and it had changed to what I just set Explorer to."

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