October 10, 2007
When Steve Jobs announced the free download of Safari 3 beta, I made the leap and installed it without first doing my homework by researching into the possible consequences. Things went smoothly however; the install happened without a hitch and now I had this supposedly superior browser available on my dock.
Unfortunately, the browser was unstable when browsing certain sites, so I wanted to revert back to the version 2. Apple cleverly bundled an uninstaller with the Safari 3 beta download, so reverting back should have been a cinch right? Maybe if you are lucky.
If you’ve reverted back to version 2 and found Safari constantly crashing seconds upon loading, it is likely not because you didn’t successfully “revert”. It could possibly be an input manager which you added prior to installing Safari 3 beta. An example of an input manager is Piclens, which I advocated. (Note: it’s possible that installing the newer version of Piclens may actually fix the problem. If it does, please leave a comment on your experience)
How do I get rid of said input managers?
If you’ve fallen for one of those mac shareware bundles, you may already have AppZapper installed. It’s easy to remove input managers through AppZapper; simply expand the menu to the point shown below, and cautiously remove input managers you suspect could be the culprit. (I found that Piclens was the culprit for me)
If you do not have AppZapper, not to worry, you can still remove input managers the old fashioned way. Just open up Finder and navigate to the following path:
Hopefully after removing an input manager or two, Safari 2 should be working a-ok.