Kyb1307
December 25, 2018, 3:54pm
1
This will not open. Tries & closes right away in Safari, or Google Chrome as suggested.
This is a joke. Will be returning.
pert
December 25, 2018, 9:58pm
2
You say you're using the IDE, but then you mention browsers which would indicate you're actually using the Arduino Web Editor . Which is it?
If you're using the Arduino IDE, then the problem is that Arduino IDE 1.8.8 has a bug that makes it incompatible with any macOS version older than 10.12:
opened 05:44PM - 08 Dec 18 UTC
closed 02:38PM - 11 Dec 18 UTC
Type: Bug
OS: OSX
Type: Regression
Upgraded from 1.6.6.
v1.8.8 immediately crashes on startup with exception in… log console and crash report:
```
Process: Arduino [1153]
Path: /Applications/development/Arduino.app/Contents/MacOS/Arduino
Identifier: cc.arduino.Arduino
Version: 1.8.8 (1.8.8)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: Arduino [1153]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2018-12-08 18:02:00.194 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.11.6 (15G22010)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: D68992EA-87DB-CDED-6913-AA92AAE020A6
Time Awake Since Boot: 740 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Crashed Thread: 0 AppKit Thread Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[NSApplicationAWT setAutomaticCustomizeTouchBarMenuItemEnabled:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fd003d71ae0'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called
```
Java version is:
```
java version "1.8.0_102"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_102-b14)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.102-b14, mixed mode)
```
Also removing `~/Library/Arduino15` did not help.
Downloaded 1.8.6. : no problems, only slow File menu.
This bug has already been fixed but a new release has not been made since that time. For now, you should use Arduino IDE 1.8.7, which you can download here:
Kyb1307
December 25, 2018, 10:21pm
3
After a few hours of digging I found some one had this issue and downloaded 1.8.5 and it worked.
I removed 1.8.8 & downloaded 1.8.5 and it worked for me as well.
Looks like i will be keeping it now.
pert
December 25, 2018, 10:47pm
4
As I already told you, this bug is specific to Arduino IDE 1.8.8. There is no need to go all the way back to 1.8.5. 1.8.7 will work too.