I was getting on fine with Safari and I really like it (having to use IE now), for some reason my Safari no longer works, it cant not load any pages for some reason, some times it gets a bit of the page loaded but most of the time its just blank;

Heres an image of what I get when I try to vist here on Safari: Image - thats all it can get done

I have no clue whats wrong with it or how to fix it, I dont really want to have to reinstall the whole OS again

Its obviosly not my internet as IE and other internet applications work fine so it must be something to do with Safari, I even tried another browser which uses the same render as Safari and that also didnt load web pages..

Can any one help?

Thanks

under the safari menu there are options to "reset safari" and to "empty cache"

try those.

try repairing permissions..that doesnt hurt to do it every now and then

Yea I tried those two, no difference



How do I do that?

go to applications -> utilities -> disk utility

Choose ur volume and hit repair permissions

Still the same

What does this actually do, i've heard it mentioned a few times, but never knew wah it meant!, exactly.
Thanks.

Things Repair Permissions Will Fix

Startup issues of various sorts.
Standard folders outside of a home directory that you should be able to write to and cannot.
Network features that fail to work.
General system features that fail to work or give a “permission denied” error or sorts.
Things Repair Permissions Will Help Fix

Restoring a drive from a backup in such a way that permissions were not copied. It will not recreate hard links, symbolic links, or special files. If your backup has any files in /dev at all then it’s a bad backup and will never boot a system.
Restoring a good backup to a usable state. It will not bless it. Use the command-line tool bless for that.
Things Repair Permissions Will Not Fix

Anything involving software that was not installed with the computer or with an installer other than Apple’s Installer.
Things in home directories.
Things in folders made after installation.
Why?

Repair permissions reads the Bill of Materials in the installation receipts in /Library/Receipts that Apple’s Installer leaves after installing something. This is also why this only works on systems where Mac OS X is installed; no other volume will have these files. Since it uses them as a database of permissions settings rather than keeping them inside the program, it needs the receipt files to repair the permissions. Accordingly, if the files in the Receipts directory are removed then those files will not be repaired.

Got it from: http://www.codepoetry.net/archives/2003/10...op_database.php

maybe delete the preference file?

Where is that?

its in ur home folder -> library -> preferences -> com.Apple.Safari.plist

Still no luck, ive found "Camino" and this seems to be nice so im gonna use this