Safari stops responding on Fox News website?

I may have found a solution:

Click on the following:

Safari->Preferences->Websites

If you have an entry for Foxnews set it to "Allow All Auto Play"

That resolved it for me.

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“Auto-Play” set to ”Stop media with sound” fixed it! This did fix the issue. Thanks for the work around but still it is an Apple issue.

Apple needs to find out who allowed this bug to affect Fox News website and not the other websites. Could be an intentional issue to harass Fox News website users by some BIASED Apple software employee ? :(

Thank you for this solution. When I checked this preference setting, all of the other websites I had open were set to "Stop Media With Sound". I set Fox News to "Stop Media With Sound" and that worked for me.

I was having this issue also. I am on macOS Catalina 10.15.17.

I have my settings for foxnews.com and foxbusiness.com as allow popups... and for autoplay Stop Media with Sound.... and that is the cure for me and it is still working.

If it freezes I wait a few seconds and it clears up. Hope this helps :)

I had already decided to do the same -- allow popups -- to see if that would help, and it seemed to help. I wasn't trusting it enough to post about it yet. Let's all hope it works.

Open up Fox News, Go to Safari, Preferences, Go to Autoplay, then click to automatically start Fox News.

This was the most helpful post I could find because it fixed my issues related to slow and disjointed loaded of the app. I am glad to get this fixed. It was very annoying!!!!!!

Glad it helped :) as it is working for me...if it freezes still after.... making the settings for foxnews.com and foxbusiness.com TO allow popups... and for autoplay TO Stop Media with Sound.. then I just wait about 5 to man 10 seconds and it resolves the delay.

I have had this nagging problem for several weeks on only Fox News. Put it on Auto Play as depicted and for now it seems to be working!!!

I am using Safari 13.1.2 on macOS Catalina 10.15.6 (19G2021), and the only issue that I have with the Fox News site is their detection of my ad blocker, which imposes a dialog requesting that I white-list their site. Until I dismiss that dialog, nothing happens, and eventually, with the slight change in browsing progress, that dialog will reappear. Otherwise, the Fox site works fine for me.

f86ster Said:

"Safari stops responding on Fox News website?"

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I'm trying to get this to occur. I can't yet.

A Thought of how To Get out of Safari:

Use [command + tab]:

If you get stuck to get out of safari: [Hold Down: command key + tap the tab key until you get to Finder (the Smiley Face)] Then go to the Apple menu, and select Force Quit.

There is, of course, a negative "side effect" to always enabling auto-play: namely, I now have to put up with those annoying "commercials" that auto-play on web pages. I'm sure that's why I disabled that in the first place...

However, I would've done that a long time ago, and this problem (the Fox News site becoming unresponsive) only showed up in the last two weeks. So.... I'm left to conclude that either 1) Apple changed something in Safari (or possibly MacOS), or 2) Fox News changed something in their site.

In any event, it appears to have resulted in an adverse interaction between Catalina/Safari and the Fox News site.

It's always somethin'; if it's not one thing, it's another! 🙂

The FoxNews website is a mess these days—general state of disrepair and in need of a tune-up. Makes me wonder if the folks(company) handling Fox's web presence may have changed or had their budget slashed. Either way, of all the websites I visit daily for news(I'm a news junkie) FoxNews is by far the worse relating to unwanted interruptions.

Setting to allow autoplay used to work for me, but it quit working even with that setting. Today, Oct. 18, 2020, I'm searching for more help for the same problem. Safari is still freezing. I'm on High Sierra with the latest Safari.