SoapUI 5.3.0 Mac hangs on any use after installation

Question

SoapUI 5.3.0 (latest open source version) Mac hangs on clean-install on MacOS 10.12.3 - with all presets suggested by the installer.

I tried rebooting & installing a

Answer 1

1) In Finder, go to /Applications/SmartBear/soapUI-5.x.x or sometimes under application directly /Applications/soapUI-5.x.x, then right click on it and choose Show Package Contents

2) Open contents dir, you should see file named vmoptions.txt open it and add the following line -Dsoapui.browser.disabled=true

3) In the same directory, I mean contents, open java/app/bin/soapui.sh and uncomment the following line by just removing #.

# JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dsoapui.browser.disabled=true"

So, it should be like this

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dsoapui.browser.disabled=true"

4) If you were already opening SoapUI, make sure you force stop it from Activity Monitor or by just right clicking on it in the bottom toolbar and click Force quit.

5) Start SoapUI

References:

https://community.smartbear.com/t5/SoapUI-Pro/SoapUI-Pro-5-1-2-hangs-on-Mac-OS-X-10-8-5/m-p/98340/highlight/true#M23585

http://chanukadissanayake.blogspot.com/2016/08/how-to-fix-soapui-freeze-in-mac-os.html