Safari is buggy and oftentimes unusable with multiple windows open (macOS 12.0.1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJIJWyD5sbQ (a YouTube video of my screen recording to display the issues.)
Background:
I have an M1 powered MacBook Air running macOS 12.0.1. Safari was unresponsive, so I quit Safari and opened it again, and reopened all windows from my previous session (Safari > History > Reopen All Windows From Last Session), as I would do with no issues on macOS Big Sur. However, I noticed some strange things happening after this.
What I have tried so far (without the issues being solved):
- Restarting my MacBook Air
- Force quitting Safari, and opening it again as usual
- Opening a second window without reopening all windows from my previous session
Issues:
- Whenever my cursor hovers and moves over a text field (on Safari only), it flickers from the I-beam pointer and the Arrow pointer until I stop moving the cursor. (Below shows what I-beam and Arrow pointers look like if you are unaware.)
- When I stop the cursor from moving on a text field, the cursor displays the Arrow pointer, but it is supposed to display the I-beam pointer.
- When I move to a second open window in Safari (with a different Tab Group opened on the second window), additional issues appear.
- Either the tab bar or the search bar (or both) of certain tabs will appear blank even though a website is open in them.
- When I click the search bar and type something in it, Safari will not show me any suggestions based on bookmarks, history, etc.
- Sometimes, when I search something in the search bar nothing will happen, but when I type in a website then it will open a website; I have to type in "google.com" just to search something on Google, when I should be able to just type it in the search bar.
- Sometimes I cannot open the Sidebar, either.
- Sometimes Safari just goes unresponsive.
Does anyone know how I might be able to fix this?
(Arrow pointer:)
(I-beam pointer:)
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.0