Suddenly no site in the UK will open in Safari (10.8.2 OS/6.0.2 Safari): BBC.co.uk, virgin.co.uk, apple.co.uk, amazon.co.uk, bobsyeruncle.co.uk, etc – every UK site is unavailable. Safari generates a "Failed to Open Page / Safari cannot connect to server" error. It's as if the entire range of servers in the UK have been denied.
Yet if I use Chrome or Firefox, no problem; UK sites pop open without issue, so it's likely not a system issue (etc/hosts). If I open a different user, Safari opens the UK site fine – the problem only seems to affect this one account. Unfortunately it's my work account.
What I've done (nothing has worked):
- Checked proxies, none on
- Uninstalled Safari Extentions
- Removed Safari preferences
- Fixed disk permissions
- Flushed DNS caches
- Removed Safari files from the ~/Library/Saved Application State folder
- Removed Safari folder from ~/Library/
Okay – I give up. What have I missed?
Best Answer
It ended-up being even more simple: Little Snitch somehow blocked all domains within the UK range. I didn't know it could do that! I discovered it by rebooting in safe mode and discovering it did work, then removing anything running on boot.