Are you uber excited for the new Safari 4 beta from Apple? However, on install all it does is bounce and crash? I’ve been having the issue under 10.5.6 and the fix is simple; remove your Safari addons!
Step 1 – Uninstall Safari 4 beta and revert back to Safari 3. If you still have Safari 3, then you’re good to go.
Note: You don’t have to reinstall Safari 3, it should just come back when you uninstall Safari 4 beta.
Step 2 – Go to Safari -> Preferences and look for any addons like…
Step 3 – Go to the official site for any addons and see if there is an update or if there are any compatibility issues with Safari 4. Or just uninstall the addon.
Step 4 – Install Safari 4 beta.
This time, everything should work fine. It did for me. 
Are you uber excited for the new Safari 3 beta from Apple?
Reverting back to the 3 beta huh??
Anyway, I tried safari 4 beta on windows, seems smooth, but crashes on gmail, same problem on macs??
Darn typos. It’s fixed now. And I’ve had no crashes on my Mac related to websites.
[...] to your heart – there’s been more than a few reports about the (un)expected beta bugs and crashes. I’ve run across a few myself – Hotmail, Gmail with Google Gears, WordPress, and clearing [...]
Hi,
thanks for your tip!
After reinstalling the Safari addons, i had fun with safari 4 beta!
Bye
It worked fine for me for almost a week.. since this morning, it has already twice..:(
How to uninstall Safari 4? Simply drag and drop into trash will do? Would I still be having safari 3? I did not delete safari 3 before installing 4.
Re-download Safari 4. One of the options in the installer is to uninstall. It’ll then put Safari 3 back in it’s place.
It’s not necessarily obvious how you uninstall Safari 4 to roll back to 3.2.1. Here’s how:
http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/02/how-to-back-out-of-safari-4beta/
Cheers,
Mark
By the way — if you’re having problems with Safari 4 Public Beta then it may be worth trying it with the latest WebKit loaded. Here’s how to do that — written for people who have a particular problem, but potentially valid as a fix for other problems as well:
http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/03/safari-4-and-wordpress-now-works/
Cheers,
Mark
I downloaded the newest version of Safari (4.0) last night. Now I find out that it has totally messed up
my entire e-mail system. I cannot send any e-mails. I can only receive them.
Is there an easy way to go back to my old Safari ?? Help.
I think this is an MSN problem. I have no choice now on my e-mail provider. I am stuck with MSN.
Mike
As noted above, re-download Safari 4. One of the options in the installer is to uninstall. It’ll then put Safari 3 back in it’s place.
Thanks for all of your suggestions. I am sure glad you all are out there to help.
The only thing that ended up working for me was to install my old OS-X.
It gave me back my old safari and my e-mail worked fine again.
Apple Safari takes more resources compared to Opera and Firefox. sometimes it also freezes so i would still stick to Opera.
Safari 4 is a bit slow compared to either Opera and Firefox. but i like the interface and graphics of Safari 4, it is cool though.