Bug 24942 - Webkit failed to open correctly
Summary: Webkit failed to open correctly
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebKit Misc. (show other bugs)
Version: 420+
Hardware: Mac (PowerPC) OS X 10.4
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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: 25719 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2009-03-30 13:57 PDT by Roger Pelizzari
Modified: 2009-06-14 12:17 PDT (History)
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Description Roger Pelizzari 2009-03-30 13:57:56 PDT 
I have Safari Beta 4 on my Apple G4 PowerPC Powerbook.

I get this message everytime I open WebKit. Present version -Version 4 Public Beta (4528.16, r42114

WebKit failed to open correctly on your previous attempt. Please disable any Safari extensions that you may have installed.....

I don't have any Safari extensions, though I do have Safari 4 Modifier which turns off the new features in Safari 4 Beta. But I get the error message even when I go back to the default features of Safari 4.
Comment 1 Mark Rowe (bdash) 2009-05-12 20:30:04 PDT 
*** Bug 25719 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 CrazyVision 2009-05-18 03:48:41 PDT 
I also have Safari Beta 4. I have a MacBook Intel Core Duo running Mac OS X 10.4.

I get the same error when opening the nightly build of Webkit (Version = 530.11+, r43808). It still opens normally though and seems to work without any problems. 

I didn't get the error when I opened WebKit for the first time after downloading it last night. I didn't change anything though. Just shut down my Mac for the night.
Comment 3 Dan C 2009-05-22 11:09:52 PDT 
WebKit Nightly gives the same dialog to me also, since installing Safari 4 beta.

If I set aside com.apple.Safari.plist, then WebKit does not give the dialog on the next launch.  The dialog returns, however, on the 2nd launch.

This with NO input managers and NO plug-ins installed.  (I even pulled the system-wide ones in /Library).

FWIW,
- Dan.
Comment 4 Richard Jones 2009-05-26 09:54:38 PDT 
On my PowerBook G4 550Mhz this alert box started when an install of a new build failed to complete and had to be re-installed. I tried on another user and the first launch of WebKit went fine but at subsequent launches the alert appeared. I removed all extensions and anything else I could with no improvement. I have gone back to Safari for the time being.

I had a chance to accidentally duplicate the problem on my dual 2Ghz G5. I was installing an update to WebKit and an OSX update at the same time. I had to interrupt the installation and then after re-installing WebKit the alert box appear ed on the next launch of WebKit. I cured the problem by  re-installing OSX from a TimeMachine backup. Now WebKit  on the G5 launches fine.
Comment 5 Roger Pelizzari 2009-06-14 12:17:52 PDT 
As of June 12, I no longer experience the bug. Pershaps one of the nightly updates to Webkit fixed it.

Thank you all you Webkit experts.