Why is Safari so slow after upgrading to macOS Sonoma?

I have an M2 MacBook Air with 16GB memory. I do not use a VPN, and I do not have any extensions in Safari. I have not changed anything before installing macOS Sonoma. Yet, Safari has become unusably slow. Web pages take minutes to load, and sometimes don't even load. Searches don't execute for tens of seconds. I have switched off "Hide my IP Address", but even this did not help. Does anyone have any idea what else I can do other than switching to Chrome?

MacBook Air, macOS 14.0

Posted on Oct 2, 2023 5:32 AM

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lurch

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Posted on Nov 24, 2023 6:16 AM

Hi, I had the same problem with my Safari. Read through a number of posts so I went to my Wifi Network settings and under Proxies I disabled 'Auto proxy discovery' and under TCP/IP I renewed my DHCP Lease. Happy to say that my Safari is now back to normal.

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