Safari hangs consistently

Go step by step and test.

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

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

2. Startup in Safe Mode. 

   Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support.  

    Quote:

    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

Thanks cmp101; I tried that too when I saw that worked for you, but no luck

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Hopefully it will fix itself someday with another update, and I guess it is back to another browser for now :(

Thanks again!

Apparently it took 8 days for me, and now I can no longer reach apple.com, and images don't show up on various other websites.

Too bad...

I have the same problem as the initial thread, but only since Safari 15.4 on macOS 12.3, and now I can't even go to apple.com 95% of the time! The behavior seems erratic...sometimes a website that was opening will work, and then it just hangs the next time I try to visit it. Sometimes if I open a website that ALWAYS works (why amazon.com????), a website that wasn't working right before that will open.

Like the opening remarks, another browser always works perfectly.

Is anyone experiencing similar problems or have any idea what is going on?

This feels like one of those "Come on Apple, get it together things," but I would be happy to try anything short of a complete reinstall, which I just don't need at the moment!

Hi cmp101,

I'm not sure exactly what worked because I wasn't quite careful enough in my testing, but I upgraded to 12.3.1 a couple of days ago and then cleaned the Safari cache and so far it has been working properly for me again.