Re: SIMBL??

Jeff Weinberger <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Mar 2021 12:34:37 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.general
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> On Mar 2, 2021, at 3:26 PM, Bob Stern <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
>>
>> On 2 Mar 2021, at 6:24, Jeff Weinberger wrote:
>>
>> I have narrowed down the cause of incessant crashing of my Mac .. to be likely something called
>> “SIMBL.” There seem to be lots of log messages just before the crash
>> or where startup gets stuck referencing this.
>>
>> Some quick searching reveals that there maybe an issue with SIMBL and
>> MacOS 10.14 or greater (I’m on 11.1, on an iMac late 2015), and most
>> articles suggest uninstalling by manually removing a list of files.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this? Does anyone know if it’s safe to just delete
>> files associated with SIMBL?
>
>
> SIMBL is a long-obsolete plugin manager, commonly used for Safari plugins several years ago.  Such plugins have been disabled for the last several versions of MacOS, so you can safely delete any file associated with it.
>

Thank you!

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMBL
>
> https://github.com/msolo/simbl
>
> Bob
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