On M2 Macbook Air, Safari instantly beachballs/“not responding” on MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1

Updated to the latest MacOS last night on my M2 Macbook Air. Safari now will not load any pages; the two tabs I had from a previous session get hung, the app beachballs, and I have to force quit it because it's not responding. This behavior persisted even after I deleted all of my Safari extensions. The app works fine on another MacOS user profile I created to test it. Any thoughts? Thank you!

Posted on Mar 26, 2024 6:59 AM

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