Ryan Bigg

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GrowlMail crashes Mail

25 Feb 2009

Today when I upgraded to Safari 4 (beta) and after the two updates I installed, I tried launching Mail but it crashed with a “This application quit unexpectedly”, then it went on to blame the GrowlMail plugin. To fix this, I found this forum post on MacRumors. TheReason actually means to go into ~/Library/Mail/Bundles and remove GrowlMail.mailbundle.

This is a temporary fix as this (obviously) disables GrowlMail, but Mail launches. If you can put up with not receiving growl notifications every time you receive a notification you’ve won a lottery you didn’t enter, then go for it.

Progress Bar

If you’re missing the old-style progress bar like I am: there’s a good tip here with a whole bunch of other tips like changing the positioning of the tabs.