MacOS – Restore Safari browser on MacBook Air Yosemite OSX 10.10.4

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How do I restore my Safari browser. I accidentally deleted it. Now I have to use Google or Bing. Whoops!

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Many who are new to the Mac and OS X mistakenly think they have deleted something if they accidentally or purposely remove a icon from the Dock.

If that is what you have done, restoring it to the Dock is easily done.

Find your Applications folder
Locate Safari
Drag to the dock

Or, double click on it and it will open. There you can pin it to the Dock. By long pressing the icon or right clicking and select options. See screenshot below. The other way to keep it there is simply to drag it to a new location on the Dock closer to the Finder icon.

If you dragged it to the Trash from the Applications folder, the open the trash folder by double clicking on it and restoring from there.

If you truly deleted it, which is very hard to do "accidentally", a restore of your OS may be in order.

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It achieves it by listening to the beforeSearch event, canceling the default behaviour and checking your settings for your chosen search engine. Then it puts your query into the specified search engine and displays the results.

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MacOS – Safari on OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 CPU problem

I found a way to reset my Safari installation this way:

1) I created a backup of my bookmarks:

cp ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist ~/Desktop/

2) I deleted some Safari specific files:

rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari \
       ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari.SearchHelper \
       ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari \
       ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies \
       ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist \
       ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist \
       ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.Extensions.plist \
       ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.LSSharedFileList.plist \
       ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist \
       ~/Library/PubSub/Database \
       ~/Library/Safari

3) Then I restored my bookmarks:

mkdir ~/Library/Safari && mv ~/Desktop/Bookmarks.plist ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist

Now the CPU and the fan stay calm.

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