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Safari causes high CPU load for no reason, launchservicesd active
After a couple of days, when I have Safari open, I have an unexplainable high CPU load, apparently system time. launchservicesd is active with 50%-110% CPU load.
The load disappears immediately when I ...
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Safari Develop menu not responding
I've enabled Develop menu but when I click it, it takes around 1.5 minutes to open.
This behavior was not happening at the beginning but started after a while, presumably around the time I inspected ...
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Safari 15 for Mac hangs / freezes on launch
Within a few seconds to a couple minutes of launching, Safari (version 15.2 on macOS Catalina 10.15.7) freezes with a “wait” cursor (beach ball). Even if I open to an empty start page and just let it ...
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Reset Safari in MacOs Big Sur
My Safari browser freezes immediately upon launch, so I want to completely reset all settings.
(the problem is I accidentally bookmarked a Jupyter server in Favorites, and this freezes the client ...
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attempt to right click on a hyperlink in safari causes safari to freeze
I have my macbook pro 2013 model with macOS updated to Catalina, everytime I try to right click on a hyperlink in the safari browser , safari freezes then I had to force quit.
my safari browser also ...
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How to tell what Safari tab requires high performance GPU?
I'm experiencing lower than expected battery life on my 2015 Macbook Pro. I believe that part of the problem is that the High Performance GPU is being activated when not needed by some tab in Safari:
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Mac book air Admin account slower than fresh brand new user account — I have tried a lot to fix
I have a Mac book air 2017 running Catalina. I have noticed my admin account being a little slow. Safari launching slower and some other apps slower
I did a test and made a new admin user. I logged ...
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Can we expect most of the safari freezing issues resolved after the Big Sur update? [closed]
For the past couple of months, I have been dealing with a lot of issues with safari, most typically the constant freezing watching videos on youtube and on Netflix. For instance, when I consider ...
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MacOS UI Freezes and Hangs after 10.14.6 (18G4032) Security Update
I have updated my MacBook Air 2017 256GB model recently, the latest security patch 10.14.6 (18G4032).
I started to have random freezes. Sometimes, it goes back to normal after a few seconds. ...
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Bandcamp delay using Safari
When trying to play a song on Bandcamp, there is either a long delay before the it starts or it does not start at all. The song buffers (as indicated by the spinning animation) and then I see the ...
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OSX Web Browsers Won't Load a Page
I have a 2013 27" iMac running 10.15.3 and for some recent over the past couple weeks if I leave my computer idle for several hours (usually 12+) when I get back to my desktop none of my web browsers ...
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2.7GHz Intel Core i7 vs 2.6GHz 6‑core 9th‑gen Intel Core i7 [closed]
I have a 15" 2016 2.7GHz Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro. It has 16GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 and a 1TB SSD. I'm considering upgrading to the latest MacBook Pro, which has:
2.6GHz 6‑core 9th‑gen Intel Core i7 ...
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How to decide which is the better browser for me: Google Chrome or Safari? [closed]
Consider that it is often said that...
Safari is more battery/CPU efficient.
Most people will never run across a web site that runs better on Chrome than on Safari (excluding Google explicit sites).
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I constantly get a never-ending spinning beach ball in Safari on tabs that have Google Calendar loaded
I keep seeing the spinning beach ball on any tab that has Google Calendar loaded. It doesn't happen right away, it typically takes a while before it starts beach balling. The calendar works fine the ...
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YouTube freezes with Safari
I'm running macOS High Sierra and have had a bizarre problem for months. When I use Safari to watch videos on YouTube, occasionally changing the time of the video (either with the arrow keys or with ...
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Safari shows blue dot below Dock icon though it's not in process table [duplicate]
Summary:
Safari is running according to the Dock (icon has dot below it, and right-click shows "Force Quit"); however Activity Monitor doesn't show it and ps -ef | grep -i saf returns nothing. ...
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Random extreme CPU spikes on random browser tasks
I've noticed that every once in a few days (sometimes daily) my CPU spikes to a 120% or such usage when any of my browsers are open.
The scenario is weird, today I was watching a movie using VLC ...
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Why does Chrome have much better performance in rendering 3D graphics than Safari?
I used the models in this website to test the performance of my computer to render 3D graphics, and I found that dragging a 3D model is very choppy in Safari, while in Chrome it’s much more fluid. I ...
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Chrome and Safari keeps hanging after upgrading to macOS High Sierra
Since upgrading to High Sierra, both Chrome and Safari have been hanging randomly following startup. The rainbow pinwheel would appear every few seconds and I'd have to force quit/re-open those ...
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Safari beach-balling on some websites like Github.com
Safari has been stalling when I load some websites. Github.com is the most reproducible. The page would load, but then my mouse would turn to a beach-ball and just get stuck until I close the tab with ...
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Safari (10.0.3) memory leak
Noticed today, Safari occasionally starts eating up memory until it reaches tens of gigabytes of memory used and freezes the whole system.
Both cases when this happened, the trigger was starting ...
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Memory pressure suddenly skyrockets and computer freezes or lags tremendously [closed]
I've been getting this problem a lot and it's very frustrating. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, my MacBook will just freeze up or lag tremendously. The clock stops, apps stop responding, and it'll ...
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Does anyone know how iOS Safari 9 handles page crashes or freezing?
We have a web app which is freezing in Safari 9 and Safari 10 on iOS 9 and 10. Worth noting this is a web page which is touch responsive, the users then add this web page to the Home screen of the ...
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Why Safari 10 bar search is so slow in Mac OS Sierra?
It seems that one of the surprises with Safari 10 on Mac OS Sierra is that it takes ages to perform a search using the search bar (using Google as default search engine).
It takes on average even ...
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Safari makes os freeze
I have a Mid-2014 MBP retina 15" running OSX 10.11.5. It runs flawlessly except for occasional Safari freezes. It happens only while I'm using Safari, and mostly when I try to close a tab. I've ...
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Typing into Safari on iPad extremely slow
We have an iPad mini 2 running iOS 9. Ever since upgrading, any text field in Safari is painfully slow, generally taking 2 to 4 seconds before responding, and then doing so in fits and jerks. This ...
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Can a webpage open in Safari crash the whole computer?
I have a Mid-2011 MacBook Air. Everything seems to be working fine, except Safari keeps freezing and stops responding. Sometimes, when Safari freezes, it causes the whole computer to crash and I have ...
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High CPU and energy usage in Safari
Energy impact of Safari is extremely high on my Macbook Air Mid 2013 El Captian 10.11.2. It lead to high usage of CPU (Temperature ~65.0°C) and the CPU fan is running in full speed (6500.0 RPM) ...
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Very Slow Download Speeds from Apple Applications (Safari and Mac App Store)
After I restored my computer to a clean reinstall of El Capitan, I have experienced incredibly slow download speeds in Apple applications only (Safari and the App Store). I tested downloading a file ...
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OS X 10.11.1 with Safari 9.0.1 freezes on opening new tab or address bar selection
I've got MBPro Mid 2014 with the latest OS X update - 10.11.1.
I have noticed that sometimes Safari freezes for 3-5 seconds when I open new tab or click on address bar. I am sure that I didn't have ...
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New top-of-the-line MacBook Pro suddenly starts acting old
About a week ago, I got a new MacBook Pro. I work a decent bit in video editing, among other things, so I had the processor upgraded to the highest available model. The box arrives, I open it, and my ...
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Keychain popup freezes my safari when I visit specific sites
So I'm usually a chrome user, but ever since buying a macbook pro, I switched to safari because chrome drained my battery like mad and it generated too much heat. The transition wasn't bad, I actually ...
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Malware attack freezes Safari—prevention or detection?
Several times in the past few months, a web link has popped up a box alleging that malware has been detected and I should click OK to let them fix it. I'm not stupid enough to even click anywhere ...
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Safari on OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 CPU problem
Since a couple of days I have problems with the CPU usage of my Safari installation. It runs on OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 (MacBook Pro 13" from 2011).
To reproduce it I only have to open one empty tab ...
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How to debug Safari CPU utilization and spinning beach ball?
I have been plagued by performance problems in my late 2010 MacBook Air for several months now. Most of it seems centred around Safari. I regularly get very high fan speeds (loud to the point of very ...
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OS X Yosemite Crashing Frequently (Safari?)
I've got the problem that my Systems is often freezing and than shutting down or restarting. I have a Mid-2012 Macbook Pro Retina and before Yosemite I've never had such problems.
Just while writing ...
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Macbook Pro Hangs/Freezes sometimes
I don't turn off my MacBook Pro very often, and sometimes it just freezes and restarts itself after a few seconds. Its very annoying, especially when I'm working on something. I contacted support a ...
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Advice for troubleshooting hard freezes associated with Safari? (Mid 2012 Retina Macbook Pro, 10.10.2)
I have a Macbook Pro 10,1 (Mid 2012) running 10.10.2. Over the last few months, I have had issues with the system suddenly hanging - mouse won't move, keyboard does nothing, and the clock is stopped. ...
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How to find out which Safari tab is using massive memory?
As described in my other question, Safari on OS X 10.6. is causing me massive problems (with my way of working like having many tabs in Safari open for a long time).
I just realized that after ...
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Safari makes my MacBook incredibly slow - what to do?
System configuration
I'm working with a MacBook 2,16 GHz (13" white with the max. 3 GB RAM from about 2007) and "Snowleopard" OS 10.6.8.
The problem: performance
After a while, the MacBook becomes ...
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Does clearing Safari's cookies actually help the iPhone's overall performance?
There's an iPhone 4 that has been getting pretty slow lately, so I figured I'd browse a bit about how to fix it. One particular tip several sites seem to suggest is clearing Safari's cookies.
I am ...
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Chrome loads very slowly while Safari very fast
Chrome loads any web page very slowly. Even making a google search takes more than 15 seconds while the same occurs in Safari instantaneously. I cleared the cache and disabled NPAPI plugins as ...
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Why does OS X Mavericks freeze while typing comments on StackExchange Pages in Safari?
For a couple of days i am using OS X Mavericks and Safari for browsing. Sometimes while writing questions or comments on StackExchange pages, the computer freezes, and on the screen appear suddenly ...
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Safari 6 freezing
I've recently upgraded to Safari 6 in Lion and I'm seeing some pages freeze: I cannot scroll down and sometimes cannot click on anything. Safari is still alive and working but the freeze cannot be ...
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What can I do about frequent beach ball Safari and other apps?
I very frequently get the beachball and occasionally the wristwatch (as in every minute or so if I'm using the machine multi app) as I use my Mac. This appears in all apps, especially Apple core apps. ...
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Safari "Find" is slow
Safari is fast at everything, except "Find". When I hit command-F, I get the beachball for 5 to 25 seconds (and then the Find bar appears as normal and everything's good again).
I have plenty of ...
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How can I figure out which tab in Safari is using CPU?
I usually have several tabs open in Safari in the background, and sometimes I see it taking up an unusual amount of CPU (PluginProcess or WebProcess).
How can I figure out which tab (or tabs) is ...
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My Mac freezes when using Safari
I am using a Mac with OSX Snow Leopard.
Sometimes I am playing some media through Safari and my Mac freezes. I basically cannot do anything. The trackpad does not work anymore as well as the keyboard....
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Adding a bookmark or a web page to the reading list in Safari causes freeze
When I try to add a bookmark or a web page to the reading list in safari it freezes.
How do I solve this problem and what is causing it?
Systeminfo
Mac OS 10.6.8
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Why does Safari freeze on YouTube HTML5 videos?
I'm in YouTube HTML5 trial, and the experience is terrible with Safari.
Every video is lagging severely, and the browser gets unresponsive constantly.
I have zero problems with the Flash version, ...
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