Google Maps lagging severely after Safari update

amd1 wrote:

Hi everyone.

I updated Safari to 26.5 on my M2 Max and the Google Maps website has suddenly started to stutter severely and has become extremely laggy. It's so bad that it's almost unusable. I rely on it a lot and use it every day.

It was fine in the previous version of Safari and it works fine in Brave and Firefox.

Is there any way to troubleshoot this?

Thanks.

I would use the browser that works for you in this case...

if there is some incompatibility you have no control over that, ie latest Safari and a third party website/interface.

Always advised to have more than one browser exactly for this reason; typically I advise browser(s) that have differing rendering engines:

ex.

Safari—Webkit as its core rendering engine

FireFox—Gecko Quantum  rendering engine

Chrome—Blink  rendering engine

Brave uses the Blink rendering engine

Microsoft Edge uses the Blink

Opera uses the Blink

You can try disabling any and all extensions you may have added to the Safari browser to compare your results.

You want to submit feedback you can do it here: Feedback - Safari - Apple

Experiencing the same phenomenon under the same circumstances described by the original poster (MacOS 26.5.1, Safari 26.5, Studio Mac M2 Max).