Charles on Software » SafariCharles on Software http://www.celticwolf.com/blog Opinions about designing, programming and using software Thu, 30 May 2013 22:22:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Resetting the Session on Safari for Mac http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/2011/11/05/resetting-the-session-on-safari-for-mac/ http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/2011/11/05/resetting-the-session-on-safari-for-mac/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:10:23 +0000 Charles Calvert http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/?p=682 Using my new MacBook Pro, I’d started having problems with my Safari session. One of the open tabs was to a page at help.github.com. For some reason, whenever I went to or tried to close the tab, or closed Safari itself, Safari would crash.

I don’t know why that page was crashing, and I didn’t really care.  I just wanted to close that tab so that it would stop crashing my sessions.

After some research, I discovered that Safari stores the open tabs in ~/Library/Safari/LastSession.plist. Deleting this file got rid of the existing session, so I was able to start Safari, create a new session, and not have Safari crash on me.

There’s probably a way to edit the plist and just remove the tab that was crashing, but that would involve using a plist editor, and I didn’t want to save the session enough to justify going to that trouble.

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