My (almost 5 years old) MacBook Pro runs on OS X Yosemite 10.10.3Īfter answer the version of Safari: $cat /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/version. I thought it worked out well at first place and I then realized that Safari is not 'completely closed'. Another way to Force Quit an app is to hold down the Command + Alt (or Option) + Escape keys, this will bring up the same Force Quit Applications window as. Step 3 Click the X button in the upper-left.

Step 2 Find the app that wont quit in the process list and select it. Step 1 Open Activity Monitor in Application > Utilities. I wanted to quit, I had to force to quit. If you cannot quit an app with force quit or Command-Option-Escape, you can turn to Activity Monitor, which allows you to force quit any frozen apps. I just came back from camping, I opened my computer and Safari was very very slow.

I went camping for a few days and I let my computer under sleep with the Safari, Sublime Text 2 and Preview open. New tabs and windows sometimes load forever and Safari is sometimes very slow. I already had a few troubles with Safari in the past months. How did this situation come to existence? When I try to open Safari (via the Dock or via the Applications folder), nothing happens. When I try to restart my computer, I get a message saying that the computer cannot restart because I have to quit Safari first. Under Activity Monitor there is no process that contain the word Safari and there is no process that are particularly demanding neither in terms of CPU nor in terms of RAM. Now, select the Force Quit button to full close the application. In the Force Quit Applications window, look for Safari and select it. If so, then using the Force Quit command on the application may bring it back to life. I can also make a secondary click on the icon on the Dock and click on Force Quit but again nothing happens. Safari may be refusing to start because it never actually closed properly in the first place. I can select it and press Force Quit but nothing happen. However, on the Force Quit Application window Safari is visible. When looking at the Dock, the icon Safari is not accompany by a dot (meaning that the application is closed). I am trying to force to quit Safari but that doesn't work.

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