- Here is how you do a 'Reset' in Yosemite Safari. You start by into the 'History' menu: At the very bottom you will see 'Clear History and Website Data'. There is an ellipsis at the end of that command which indicates it does other stuff as well. When you select this command you will be taken to this menu.
- Once you've done that, here's how to install, reinstall, or upgrade Yosemite, step by step: Boot from your Recovery HD partition by restarting your Mac while holding down the Command+R keys. The OS X Utilities window appears. Select Reinstall OS X, and click Continue.
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It should be obvious that the Reset Safari option which was available in Mavericks is no longer available in Yosemite. All the options that were grouped in the Reset Safari option are still available, but are now done separately. History is cleared under History in the main menu and the rest are now done from Safari preferences.
Click here to return to the '10.7: Remove Safari session auto-restore' hint |
10.6 does the thing where if you crash an app multiple successive times (I think 2?) and use the 'relaunch' button in between, it clears out your preferences file so that it'll have a better chance of working on the last go. I don't suppose 10.7 does something similar but with the saved states?
Holding the SHIFT key while launching Safari will also prevent the previous sessions windows from loading.
-systemsboy
You can hold down Shift while launching any app in Lion and it'll skip restoring your session—this not Safari-specific. Of course, if you don't have to force quit the app, you can use Option-Quit so your session isn't saved at quit.
Same as Shift for safe boot, or to stop login items from running in earlier Mac OS X versions. (Or to disable extensions in classic Mac OS :-).
I was sure this was already documented somewhere, but all you have to do is hold the 'Shift' key down when launching (I believe) any application under OS X Lion to prevent saved window states from reopening; this is pretty much the old style 'Safe Boot' / 'Safe Login' command and makes perfect sense.
I have tested this with Safari and TextEdit and it is true for at least these apps; it may not be reliable for applications not fully updated for the Resume feature in Lion.
Please note that if you use Spotlight, Launchbar, Keyboard Maestro, et al, to launch your apps via shortcuts, you may not get the 'Shift' key signal to the launcher agent in time; I find that it is necessary to hold the Shift key while clicking on the icon in Dock or Finder to register the request to launch clean.
com.apple.Safari.savedState is a folder that contains four files, not an individual file, as stated in the original OS X Lion hint.
Also, the folder com.apple.Safari.savedState disappears when Safari is quit, and reappears when Safari is opened.
It should also be noted that if you wish to never have Safari (or other applications for that matter) auto-resume again, if you navigate to the application saved state folder as mentioned above, you can 'lock' the folder via the get info window (command+I) and it will open fresh each time.
https://software-elements.medium.com/vlc-player-mac-app-store-7e184c29b40e. Imac 2009 os sierra. Macbooster 8 key. If you are able to use the command-q option without resorting to force-quit, you can hold down the option key when selecting quit from the menu and 'Quit Safari' changes to 'Quit and Discard Windows' - with the keyboard shortcut being command-option-q
Best 4k web cameras. whats about quitting Safari, or other apps you do not want to current stae to be restored, either by holding Alt and use menu or simply Alt+Cmd+Q
Reset Safari Os X Yosemite Pro
is Alt+Cmd+Q not working in that situation?
Another workaround is to turn on private browsing, then restart. It opens the new tab/top sites page, not your last visited one.
If you wish to disable the auto-resume; go to System Preferences: General (the check box to turn it off/on system wide is under the recent items).
However, there appears to be a bug in 10.7.0, as Safari still auto-opens the windows. Our Apple Rep at UCLA has made a bug report to Apple.
Brian chrtisopher slots. I also suggested that having it be an app by app preference would be far more useful, as many programs I would like to have that ability, but others I do not.
Os X Yosemite Download File
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
… ~ @tiocsti
I'm the original poster, and I want to thank each of you for your remarks. Also,
1. It is correct that I removed a directory (and its contents) and not just a file as I wrote. In fact, I used (command line) rm with the recursion and force flags. If you do that too, please be careful.
2. It is also correct that Cmd+q was not working. I did not try Cmd+Alt+q. As I said, the popup had exclusive focus for the application.
3. As I wrote, I had the System Preferences setting disabled for auto-resume, and had verified it several times with several applications. It came as quite a surprise that Safari insisted on auto-resume after a forced quit. I think this qualifies as a bug. There again, I think auto-resume itself is a bug.
4. I appreciate hearing about using Shift to start an application. That will be useful in the future.
5. Someone mentioned enabling private browsing. I can't quite picture how that would have helped me since I would have had to start Safari to enter private browsing mode, right? And every time I started Safari I got the exclusive focus popup. Or am I missing something? Can you enable private browsing in some other way than using the pull-down menu in Safari?
Again, my thanks go to everyone.
Nevertheless great hint. I was looking exactly for the location where the apps status was saved. Something on my MB was pretty messy on restarting a new session and I wanted to clean it up. Now I removed all subdirs in
'$HOME/Library/Saved Application State'
And the logging in seemed much faster. Especially iStat Menus was taking ages to show the CPU monitor.
I suspect that seen the few bugs in OS X Lion a general clean up once in a while will not hurt. ;)
Reset Safari Os X Yosemite Pro
is Alt+Cmd+Q not working in that situation?
Another workaround is to turn on private browsing, then restart. It opens the new tab/top sites page, not your last visited one.
If you wish to disable the auto-resume; go to System Preferences: General (the check box to turn it off/on system wide is under the recent items).
However, there appears to be a bug in 10.7.0, as Safari still auto-opens the windows. Our Apple Rep at UCLA has made a bug report to Apple.
Brian chrtisopher slots. I also suggested that having it be an app by app preference would be far more useful, as many programs I would like to have that ability, but others I do not.
Os X Yosemite Download File
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
… ~ @tiocsti
I'm the original poster, and I want to thank each of you for your remarks. Also,
1. It is correct that I removed a directory (and its contents) and not just a file as I wrote. In fact, I used (command line) rm with the recursion and force flags. If you do that too, please be careful.
2. It is also correct that Cmd+q was not working. I did not try Cmd+Alt+q. As I said, the popup had exclusive focus for the application.
3. As I wrote, I had the System Preferences setting disabled for auto-resume, and had verified it several times with several applications. It came as quite a surprise that Safari insisted on auto-resume after a forced quit. I think this qualifies as a bug. There again, I think auto-resume itself is a bug.
4. I appreciate hearing about using Shift to start an application. That will be useful in the future.
5. Someone mentioned enabling private browsing. I can't quite picture how that would have helped me since I would have had to start Safari to enter private browsing mode, right? And every time I started Safari I got the exclusive focus popup. Or am I missing something? Can you enable private browsing in some other way than using the pull-down menu in Safari?
Again, my thanks go to everyone.
Nevertheless great hint. I was looking exactly for the location where the apps status was saved. Something on my MB was pretty messy on restarting a new session and I wanted to clean it up. Now I removed all subdirs in
'$HOME/Library/Saved Application State'
And the logging in seemed much faster. Especially iStat Menus was taking ages to show the CPU monitor.
I suspect that seen the few bugs in OS X Lion a general clean up once in a while will not hurt. ;)
Os X Yosemite Wallpaper
A simpler way is to defaults write com.apple.Safari NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false … ~ @tiocstiThank you, @tiocsti! That worked perfectly and it was driving me nuts that there was no option in the preferences menu. I almost installed Firefox or Chromium and junked Safari. I'm setting up a new iMac for a 97 year old uncle and he needs the web browser to be as predictable and simple as possible.