Website elements often broken when I'm browsing the web

Not every time, but often enough to be annoying I get a blank area instead of an image of an item and there is always a little gray/green square in the top left hand corner of that image bubble.



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MacBook Air 13″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Dec 25, 2023 7:49 AM

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Posted on Dec 27, 2023 8:00 AM

MuserP1 wrote:

Not every time, but often enough to be annoying I get a blank area instead of an image of an item and there is always a little gray/green square in the top left hand corner of that image bubble.


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"top left hand corner of that image bubble" ?


With no specific example...have no idea what you are asking.


try a faster network(?)


try a different browser(?)



To trouble shoot further you can:


—A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies


Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.


This test will tell you if third party interference; most* extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.



—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 




unplug all third party peripherals when testing


Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS



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Dec 27, 2023 8:00 AM in response to MuserP1

MuserP1 wrote:

Not every time, but often enough to be annoying I get a blank area instead of an image of an item and there is always a little gray/green square in the top left hand corner of that image bubble.


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"top left hand corner of that image bubble" ?


With no specific example...have no idea what you are asking.


try a faster network(?)


try a different browser(?)



To trouble shoot further you can:


—A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies


Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.


This test will tell you if third party interference; most* extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.



—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 




unplug all third party peripherals when testing


Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS



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