Safari hangs when opening

After updating Big Sur update 11.2.2, Safari hangs and will not open. Update took much too long, but finally completed. Any suggestions?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.2

Posted on Mar 2, 2021 06:18 AM

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QuickTimeKirk

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Posted on Mar 2, 2021 06:24 AM

Restart Safari (quit and relaunch it).

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QuickTimeKirk

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Mar 2, 2021 06:24 AM in response to larrsy

Restart Safari (quit and relaunch it).

larrsy Author

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Mar 2, 2021 06:47 AM in response to QuickTimeKirk

Restarting Safari did not work, but restarting Safari while holding the shift key down did work.

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