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Safari Surfig Intolerably Slow w/ Private Relay

Has anyone else experienced EXTEME slowdowns using Private Relay with Safari? When it's on, I can barely load a simple site like Google or CBC News — the progress bar hangs, and the images are extremely slow to load. I turned it off, and Safari is fine. My connection speeds are around 500Mbps, so no problem there. It almost feels like somewhere in the relay, the stream is being throttled.


Not sure when this began, but it may have been after the last Safari (not Monterey) update, installed a few days ago.


I'm on a late 2020 iMac running Monterey 12.2.1 and Safari 15.3 (17612.4.9.1.8)

iMac, OS X 10.11

Posted on Feb 18, 2022 1:14 PM

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Feb 19, 2022 5:05 AM in response to Maggot

Go step by step and test.


1. Quit Safari, launch Safari holding the Shift key down.

About pop-up ads and windows in Safari - Apple Support

2. Startup in Safe Mode. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/start-up-your-mac-in-safe-mode-mh21245/mac.

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It also does a basic check of your startup disk, similar to using First Aid in Disk Utility.

And it deletes some system caches, including font caches and

the kernel cache, which are automatically created again as needed.

3. Clear History

Clear your browsing history in Safari on Mac - Apple Support

Please read the article before clearing history,

this is like a low level resetting of Safari without affecting passwords and bookmarks.

4. If Safari doesn't open a webpage or isn’t working as expected

If Safari on Mac doesn't open a webpage or isn’t working as expected - Apple Support


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