Running macOS Ventura 13.6, Safari 17.0 (18616.1.27.111.22, 18616).
Since I updated to Safari 17.0, DuckDuckGo has become unreliable. The page often locks up, at which point it doesn't allow me to scroll, click on a link, or type in the search box on the webpage. It's the only website that seems to have this issue.
Is this happening to anyone else, and is there a way of fixing this issue?
Thanks in advance.
MacBook Pro (M2 Pro, 2023)
Similar issue: MacOS 13.6, DuckDuckGo, and sometimes the page won't scroll with the trackpad or scroll-wheel, sometimes after scrolling part-way down the page stops responding to trackpad or scroll-wheel scrolling. Reloading the page sometimes works. But I don't think this is limited to DuckDuckGo as I've had the same issues on other sites in Safari since updating the 13.6. Think this is a Safari issue as Chrome which I use roughly as much on the same Mac I've not had any issues.
I suspect the problem is triggered by some ads that display. A common trait with all the sites I've had issues with is all display ads.
I enabled a Safari extension I had previously used (Ka-Block!), and this week haven't had weird scrolling or lockups with DuckDuckGo or other sites. Also forgot how fast browsing is without the constant barrage of images and videos loading trying to get your attention.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it out and see if that helps.
This is happening to me on Safari 17.0 and Ventura 13.6
..with preload top hit already unchecked.
Jedka's suggestion seems to have worked for me as well. Thanks!
Bad news, if anything the problem is worse in 17.1. Unchecking Preload Top Hit no longer seems to help at all on my system
After updating to 17.1 DuckDuckGo was great for several hours. Now it's doing the same freeze /lock up on search
It was resolved for a short while. Back to freezing again. It isn't just Duck-Duck-go. I switched to Ecosia and the freezing problems continued.
I can reproduce this in private browsing tabs also using Safari 17.0 and Ventura 13.6
This has helped for me!
WHAT has helped you?
me too! WTF!
The "Preload Top Hit in the background" was already unchecked. The issue still occurs. Are there any other ideas out there?
Thank you kindly for the update, OP wilbur808! Good to know. Cheers! :-)
Thanks for the suggestion. But "Preload top hit" has been unchecked and DDG is still freezing up when opened in Safari.
The same thing going on with me with the same setup (Ventura, Safari 17)
I tried to reinstall the OS without wiping anything but no dice. When I reinstall MacOS, Safari goes back to 16.6 and DDG works perfectly fine. Not seeing any traction on the net with this so hopefully this doesn't go on for a while.
Good to know. Will just stay on Safari 16. Strange this is happening.
DuckDuckGo becomes unresponsive in Safari
