Unexpected error - now I'm locked out of JIRA in Safari

Going to start this post at the end - the problem was fixed by clearing the browser history.

Now I'll jump to the details and perhaps you can tell me if this is something caused by the gadget or some Safari problem - but noting that I have never seen this error before and I use Safari every day.

I had just changed a gadget from being grouped by Worked User to Project, and was re-editing it to click All Users twice because of the issue related to this #841. After making that change and clicking save I had a notification "Unexpected error". I refreshed the page an am now getting:

"The operation couldn't be completed. Protocol error" (NSPOSIXErrorDomain:100)".

I now get the same error for every JIRA page I have bookmarked. Confluence has the same error. BitBucket however works fine, as so does every other web site I tested.

Restarting the browser allows me to see the login page but it doesn't load properly - the text is there but the layout is bad and there aren't any graphics. If I attempt to login then I get the same error described above.

Clearing the browser cache does nothing, similarly restarting the Mac has had no effect.

Other users are not affected, and I can login successfully using Chrome.

After researching the issue I found that some people had previously solved this in Safari by clearing the history - I did this and now JIRA is working properly.

So this should be a fun one to debug! It might be a Safari problem but like I said before, I've never seen it before, and whatever the fault is in Safari it seems to have been triggered by something the gadget does. Good luck!

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