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Q: Why does Safari keep freezing?

When on Safari, it will freeze and the loading colored ball will come up and Safari will stop working. This happens every.. twenty minutes or every time I open a new tab. I can use any other program, and I have to Force Quit or it will just sit there. This has been happening for about a week. Please help, not even a year old Macbook. Thanks.

Posted on Aug 29, 2010 11:31 PM

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  • by Carolyn Samit,

    Carolyn Samit Carolyn Samit Aug 30, 2010 12:31 PM in response to amazingfantasy15
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    Aug 30, 2010 12:31 PM in response to amazingfantasy15
    HI and welcome to Apple Discussions...

    Please take a moment and click My Settings on the right side of this page. Tell us which Mac you are using and which Mac OS X. That way you have a forum profile set up which makes it easier for troubleshooting. Thanks!

    As for Safari. If you have Safari Extensions installed, from your Safari Menu Bar click Safari / Preferences and select the Extensions tab. Turn Extensions off. Relaunch Safari and see if that makes a difference.

    If you do not use Safari extensions, it could be Safari third party add-ons causing the "freezes" Go here for help with that. Safari: Add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues

    You can also try troubleshooting the Safari .plist file. Open a Finder window. Select your Home Folder in the Sidebar on the left. It has a small house icon. Then open the Library folder then the Preferences folder. Move the com.apple.Safari.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Desktop. Now launch Safari. If Safari speeds up loading web pages, them move the .plist file to the Trash.

    Check for duplicate or corrupted fonts, instructions here.
    http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10389716-263.html?tag=mncol;title

    Make sure you have enough free space on the startup disk. Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure you always have a minimum of 10% to 15% free disk space at all times.






    Carolyn
  • by Nightflight2112,

    Nightflight2112 Nightflight2112 Dec 27, 2015 7:40 AM in response to amazingfantasy15
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    Dec 27, 2015 7:40 AM in response to amazingfantasy15

    I Bought a iPad mini, and was expecting safari to run smoothly. It doesn't! Every time I go on websites like yahoo and click on a story to read it crashes.

    i Think Apple safar is utterly useless.