safari keeps reverting my tabs

Safari keeps reverting my tabs. When I open a new tab, it will close the tab after a few seconds. When I close a tab, it will reopen the tab after a few seconds. When a tab is redirected to a new page, there are chances that after a few seconds the tab will go back to the previous page by itself. And when a new tab is finally opened, it will refresh itself once after a few seconds.

This is really annoying and is making safari unusable.

I don't know if this is related to the group functionality and cloud tabs, because I notice this problem when I am using the same tab group on my MacBook Air and my iPad. This problem occurs regularly on MacBook Air because I use it more often.

Is there a solution to this problem? Or is it a bug in safari that hasn't been fixed? I have suffered from this problem since I bought my MacBook Air a few months ago. I have upgraded to the latest software updates but the problem persists.

Posted on Dec 25, 2021 1:51 AM

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jeffdagenais

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Posted on Apr 29, 2022 7:45 AM

This seems to be related to icloud syncing tab groups in near realtime. I unchecked "safari" from my icloud features on my macbook and this works around the issue. But now of course, my safari tab group changes are isolated to my macbook only.

There are actually a lot of these issues with icloud magic, where background syncing will screw up what you're doing. My kids doing pencil markups on pdfs on their iPad have cried so many tears over loosing hours of work suddenly. The icloud magic promise is nice on paper, but there are lots of bugs there. It's sad, Apple is loosing its polished appeal there.

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