How to Reset Safari 8

Phong Tran updated September 9, 2015 at 1:43 PM

Description

In OS X Yosemite, the "Reset Safari" option has been removed so you will need to manually reset settings in Safari.

Here is a list of steps to take in order to manually reset Safari:

A. Backup Safari Folder

This step will save your Safari folder onto the desktop with a date stamp

1. Open Terminal

   Terminal

   and paste the following:

   Code Block
   mv ~/Library/Safari ~/Desktop/Safari-`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`

   
   

B. Wipe old Safari settings

This step completely wipes all of your Safari settings .

1. In Terminal

   Terminal

   , paste the following:

   Code Block
   rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/Apple\ -\ Safari\ -\ Safari\ Extensions\ Gallery

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1. rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari

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1. rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari

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1. rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.WebKit.PluginProcess

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1. rm -Rf ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies

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1. rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/Apple\ -\ Safari\ -\ Safari\ Extensions\ Gallery

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1. rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.LSSharedFileList.plist

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1. rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist

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1. rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

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1. rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.WebFoundation.plist

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1. rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.WebKit.PluginHost.plist

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1. rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.WebKit.PluginProcess.plist

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1. rm -Rf ~/Library/PubSub/Database

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1. rm -Rf ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.apple.Safari.savedState

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C. Clear Website Data

1. Navigate to " Safari > Preferences > Privacy Safari > Preferences > Privacy "
2. Select " Remove All Website Data... Remove All Website Data... " and confirm that you want to remove all website data.

D. Remove Saved Names and Passwords

1. Navigate to " Safari > Preferences > Passwords Safari > Preferences > Passwords "
2. Select " Remove All Remove All " and confirm that you want to remove all saved website preferences for name and passwords.

E. Remove AutoFill Form text

1. In Safari Preferences, navigate to " Autofill Autofill"
2. If you do not want to AutoFill web forms, uncheck all options.
3. For " User names and passwords User names and passwords", " Credit cards Credit cards ", and "Other forms Other forms ", select " Edit Edit" and remove all saved information.

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