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Q: Safari causes massive power drain

I have a Macbook air running el capitan 10.11.6 and Safari 9.1.2 which seems to be part of the 10.11.6 update. Whenever I open Safari the fan turns on and runs contiuously and the battery quickly drains.  Firefox doesn't have this problem. All preferences look normal. How can I fix this?

MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Aug 6, 2016 7:11 AM

by rdog2,Solvedanswer
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Thanks everyone for the help. Here is the fix.  Safari apparently does not close all sessions when you click "quit Safari". They also didn't die when the computer was restarted. In my case there were many open instances and these did not show up under tabs because they were separate sessions. F3 would have shown them but I never tried that. Also two finger click on the Safari icon in the dock would have shown them but I didn't try that either. Whenever I reopened Safari these 20-some sessionss would start running in the background and start consuming power.

 

Went to the apple store.  First tech ran scans and diags and it appeared everything was okay.  Went home and problem resumed. Went to different Apple store yesterday and the tech found the problem in a few minutes. Deleted all open Safari windows and all is well.

Posted on Aug 14, 2016 10:21 AM

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  • by rdog2,

    rdog2 rdog2 Aug 7, 2016 4:39 PM in response to Csound1
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    Aug 7, 2016 4:39 PM in response to Csound1

    Do you mean the El Capitan 10.11.6 update? Because I already did that, and that's when this problem started. App store shows no updates available.

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    Csound1 Csound1 Aug 7, 2016 5:03 PM in response to rdog2
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    Aug 7, 2016 5:03 PM in response to rdog2

    No, I mean the update

     

    Which you can get here: Download OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 Combo Update

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    rdog2 rdog2 Aug 8, 2016 9:13 AM in response to Csound1
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    Aug 8, 2016 9:13 AM in response to Csound1

    This update has already been applied. Thanks.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Aug 9, 2016 7:31 AM in response to rdog2
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    Aug 9, 2016 7:31 AM in response to rdog2

    Try a SMC reset. The article covers when this is required, but doing this will not affect anything.

     

    Reset SMC

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    rdog2 rdog2 Aug 14, 2016 10:21 AM in response to rdog2
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    Aug 14, 2016 10:21 AM in response to rdog2

    Thanks everyone for the help. Here is the fix.  Safari apparently does not close all sessions when you click "quit Safari". They also didn't die when the computer was restarted. In my case there were many open instances and these did not show up under tabs because they were separate sessions. F3 would have shown them but I never tried that. Also two finger click on the Safari icon in the dock would have shown them but I didn't try that either. Whenever I reopened Safari these 20-some sessionss would start running in the background and start consuming power.

     

    Went to the apple store.  First tech ran scans and diags and it appeared everything was okay.  Went home and problem resumed. Went to different Apple store yesterday and the tech found the problem in a few minutes. Deleted all open Safari windows and all is well.

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