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A fix for unexpected application quits on menu bar click System
Starting suddenly this week, Safari would unexpectedly quit whenever I tried to click on the menu bar. This problem soon infected other applications, including Mail, iCal, and iPhoto. The menu items work fine using keyboard shortcuts, but the application always immediately quits. All of the CrashReporter log files look like the applications were all crashing in a smiliar routines.

The only thing out of the ordinary that I had done recently was mess with the Chinese Input Method in the International Control Panel, and reading hints from this web site, I caught a glimmer that Adobe Acrobat (which was not one of the affected programs) would unexpectedly quit and messing with the International control panel would fix it.

Changing the language from English to something else and then back to English did not fix anything. However, setting the preference to a different language caused the menu bar to work again, except in a foreign language. I decided that the English locale information for these applications must have been corrupted, so I proceeded to reinstall applications starting with Safari.

What was interesting was that reinstalling Safari fixed all the menus of all the other applications. Something that Safari installs affects every other application, which I guess has to do with being the default browser and getting added to the Finder's Services menu item.

So, the moral of the story, first try reinstalling Safari. Hope this saves other people four or five hours of trouble shoooting.
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A fix for unexpected application quits on menu bar click
Authored by: davint on Jul 14, '03 02:11:16PM
The WebKit framework comes installed with Safari, and a lot of the iApps use it to display things like HTML. Not sure what iPhoto needs it for, and I don't use iCal, but Mail is definitely capable of displaying HTML, and perhaps it uses the WebKit to do its bidding. I don't think Adobe Reader does, which might explain why it wasn't affected.

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A fix for unexpected application quits on menu bar click
Authored by: pdandyk on Jul 14, '03 04:07:18PM

Have had same problem and getting worse. Re-installed Safari ( after scrupulously removing all files) but problem persisted.

Re-installed OS 10.6 and problem still not fixed. Finally put only single items in bar ( as opposed to folders) and these worked OK.

Any suggestions?



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Any fix for Classic application quits on menu bar click?
Authored by: NateS on Aug 27, '03 07:55:23PM

I have this identical problem, but not with Safari or other OS X apps. Instead, with every Classic app I run, as soon as I click on the menubar with the mouse, e.g. in order to do a File/Open, the app immediately quits and disappears. Same thing happens if I click in the text of the body of the document. On the other hand, if I hit e.g. Command-O I get a standard Open dialog, and the app does not quit until I first attempt to use the mouse, which is a standard issue iMac mouse.
Reinstalling OS X, reparing permissions, running DiskWarrior etc. was no help.
The trick which helped another member with Safari did not help this one.

Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!



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