Safari 17.5 crashes on launch every time. Any ideas.

Today, my Safari browser crashed when I was using it. When I relaunched, it started loading the tabs, but then crashed again. I have tried: rebooting, clearing cache, launching in Safe mode (worked for a little while, then crashed as well), deleting Safari preferences, and even a system restore to latest Sonoma. All the other apps workfine, just Safari as not working. at all. I just get the following crash:


Any ideas?


---Ken

Mac Pro (2019)

Posted on May 30, 2024 10:23 PM

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Posted on Jun 7, 2024 02:29 PM

It seems to be triggered by accessibility settings. The solution here: Accessibility settings crash browsers - Apple Community works for me.


In short, you have to open your /User/<your-username>/Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.SpeakSelection.plist

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