Safari 26.0.1 not opening its own webarchive files

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Safari 26.0.1 not opening its own webarchive files

After upgrading to Tahoe, Safari does not open webarchive files, either new ones or older files created with previous versions of Safari. It opens a tab, shows the file path in the top bar, and simply chokes: the file does not load. The "reload page" in the View menu is grayed out. Is this a bug in Safari 26.0.1 ?

The webarchive files are fine, and can be partially viewed with TextEdit, but not with Safari itself.

This seems to be a recurring problem with Safari upgrades, but is still annoying. Maybe a hidden preference can fix it? Or must we wait for Safari 26.0.2 ?

MacBook Pro (M1, 2020)

Posted on Oct 11, 2025 9:16 PM

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Palorrin

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Oct 14, 2025 10:30 AM in response to jvarilly

I am having this problem as well... I just updated to Safari 26.0.1 as well as Sonoma 14.8.1 on my 2022 MacBook Air. Website access is fine, but when I load saved .webarchive files I get the path and name and occasionally a loading bar which never moves. The page is blank. I can load the files with a text program, (no corruption in the files). Another person reported this issue (titled "Safari don't open any Webarchive files") and claimed it was fixed by disabling extensions - it did not help me as I don't have any extensions.

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