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daveh909 Author

Level 1

40 points

Safari problems since Sonoma upgrade

Safari is unusable after waking since the Sonoma upgrade. As soon as I click on the browser the Beachball appears, mostly not spinning. This persists for a while then the normal Cursor appears. So I click again and the beachball appears again. Sometimes it settles down and sometimes I have to right click the Dock icon, which reads "Application not responding" and I have to Force Quit.

Context as follows: 2 tabs on YouTube open when the machine's lid is closed. It's returning these YouTube tabs to their proper state that seems to cause the issues. This has not happened on any previous version of macOS.

MBPro M1

Safari has 1Blocker and Adblock installed - this also hasn't been a problem before.

Posted on Sep 29, 2023 12:48 AM

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dintexas

Level 1

20 points

Posted on Oct 27, 2023 4:09 PM

Safari is a disaster since Sonoma. Writing this with Firefox - no problems. I have no added extensions or ad blockers on Safari. Been a Mac user for thirty-five years. Do not recall ever having an issue with a system upgrade. I am using a M1 MacBook Pro.

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K_Faith

Community Specialist

Oct 1, 2023 2:04 PM in response to daveh909

Hello daveh909,

Thank you for reaching out to Apple Support Communities, and we'll be happy to help in any way we can. We understand you're having issues with Safari. Next, what we would recommend, is testing this issue in another user account. What we need to do, is log out of your current user. Log back in under another Standard or Administrator account and see if the same issue occurs there. This way we can tell if it is an issue with your user account, or if it is system wide: Add a user or group on Mac - Apple Support

We hope this helps.

Cheers!

AltosGuy

Level 1

8 points

Oct 30, 2023 9:34 AM in response to edb007

THANK YOU for confirming that LA Court Connect ruined your computer too, EDB007! I thought I was going crazy.

Trying to enter an appearance, and I've ruined my computer. Any solution?! About to have to wipe it.

Your post is making me feel better. At least I know what the problem is!

It broke my 14.0 install. I tried upgrading to 14.1, but it didn't fix it.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255164746?answerId=259744438022#259744438022

mjoecups

Level 1

27 points

Jan 8, 2024 10:00 PM in response to robbiewex

Those still having problem with Safari under 14.2.1 check out this thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255361261?answerId=260000037022&sortBy=best#260000037022

This is a permissions fix made in the terminal the has fixed a couple of systems for me, and others.

Please note: Apple support told a user to do this.

edb007

Level 1

4 points

Oct 22, 2023 7:13 PM in response to daveh909

I checked the box open with Rosetta, Rosetta Mode or something like that on the get information box in Safari. Safari now loads and faster. Try it and see if it works for you.

jrhaddad

Level 1

11 points

Nov 14, 2023 2:51 PM in response to K_Faith

Adding my voice to yours. Similar problems here. MBP 2019. Colleagues at work also experience this issue.

hozo2000

Level 1

14 points

Nov 16, 2023 7:15 AM in response to daveh909

not sure anymore .. I called them bloatware and the blocked my comment. Tells me a lot. They left simplicity years ago. They should stop building functionality and remove a ton .

Nov 16, 2023 1:59 PM in response to foggynoggun

Apple is going the way the rest of the world is . . . diminishing consistancy and accountability. Sad.

Dec 3, 2023 9:34 AM in response to Jeff Shaw1

Safari on Sonoma 14.1.2 still not working right when on Twitter (website).

Digitx

Level 1

13 points

Dec 6, 2023 8:33 AM in response to daveh909

I can’t even get Safari to start to turnoff any ad-blockers or third party extensions…not that I knowingly had any installed to begin with. Safari is completely unusable. Unbelievable

Dec 11, 2023 3:27 AM in response to cyreniac

Bye, bye, Safari!

Dec 11, 2023 1:43 PM in response to daveh909

nothing is better.

Safari is Crashing, failing to load web pages, crashing all web pages when one Page loading stalls.

Every day.

this is abominable. I have no idea how this was even released.

Moggie37

Level 1

12 points

Dec 21, 2023 10:12 PM in response to robbiewex

robbiewex

appcommune and others say that does not work. It would be awesome if an apple rep were to weigh in on this topic given that we are now nearing two months of continuing issues.

Dec 23, 2023 5:23 AM in response to robbiewex

Yes, of course. The Problem is: I had 2 folders ~/Library/Containers/Safari. I renamed one to "Safari_Alt". But now this name was changed back by Safari. Looking at the director now, it shows:

What the **** is this....

Looking into the folders, content is rather similar. And obviously more then 0ne folder ist actually used!

I'm sure, this is definitively a bug made by apple!

Dec 23, 2023 8:03 PM in response to cyreniac

This seems to work, great job looking into this. Apple support was not helpful.

Jan 25, 2024 7:58 AM in response to daveh909

Still no fix for me under 14.3 — having multiple profiles will cause Safari to hang when opening links from external applications (Apple Mail, Teams, etc).

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Safari problems since Sonoma upgrade