A quick solution if you are having Safari crashes issue with the AcidSearch!

Posted by Rakesh under Howto, Technology, Uncategorized

If you are having Safari crashes issue with the AcidSearch then just uninstall AcidSearch add-on from your computer.

Howto remove/uninstall the AcidSearch from you computer:

Login as root,

From Terminal Application, (in /Applications/Utilities) type:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/SIMBL/Plugins/AcidSearch.bundle/

As it is done, please follow below mentioned steps to add a search engine and install Glims (instead of AcidSearch):

As you follow these steps you are on your way to a complete solution from Safari crashes i.e. you can add a search plugin to your Safari search box via the third party Add-on “Glims” and won’t have any crash problem further.

If you have any doubt please leave your comment here I will try to resolve.

Quick steps to add a search engine to your Safari browser:

1. Please download and install the “Glims” Add-on from here and restart Safari

2. Go to Safari -> Preferences and click on the “Glims” icon

3. On the left section, click on “Search Engines“

4. Click the “Add” button at the bottom

5. In the box that pops up,

(e.g. if you wanna add Digg search)

type into the “Name” field: Digg

in “Query URL“ field, replace the http://www.google.com/q=#query# with the http://digg.com/search?s=#query#

(make sure the URL contains ‘&query=#query#‘)

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