Safari 8.0 rendering issues on Yosemite

Hi ..

Might be a cookies, cache, or extensions, issue.

From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab.

Click: Remove All Website Data

Then delete the cache. Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder

Type or copy paste the following

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db

Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.

Quit and relaunch Safari to test.

If that doesn't help, troubleshoot Safari extensions.

From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test.

If that helped, turn one extension on then quit and relaunch Safari to test until you find the incompatible extension then click uninstall.

Please read this whole message before doing anything.

This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.

Step 1

The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account.

Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”

While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your documents or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this behavior; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.

Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?

After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.

*Note: If you’ve activated “Find My Mac” or FileVault, then you can’t enable the Guest account. The “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac” is not the same. Create a new account in which to test, and delete it, including its home folder, after testing.

Step 2

The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.

Please take this step regardless of the results of Step 1.

Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Start up in safe modeand log in to the account with the problem. You must hold down the shift key twice: once when you turn on the computer, and again when you log in.

Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.

Safe mode is much slower to start up and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal startup may also be somewhat slow.

The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.

Test while in safe mode. Same problem?

After testing, restart as usual (not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of Steps 1 and 2.

Clean install? Come on, this must be a serious problem with Safari. My problem with Safari is however not the rendering, but connecting to the outside world. At first I thought I had some connection problems with the Internet (wireless or provider problems) but pinging from a terminal window and reading mail (with Thunderbird) was no problem. I restarted my Mac (Macbook Air 2013), and for a little while I could read web pages, and then suddenly it stopped. When I run Firefox I can read web pages just like normal.

Well, this thread is tricky. What is the real root of the problem? These last hours (since my last post) I have come up with more mysteries.

1) I could not log in to App Store (timed out when entering id/password).

2) Restarted my MacBook Air (just a normal restart), Safari AND App Store now both work (been surfing for more than an hour now).

3) iMovie and iPhoto are being prompted for my acceptation to my Apple ID. This is nonsense, since I have done that already, and now I cannot get rid of the prompts (this happened after the restart).

I have googled around and I see that many others have all sorts of problems, like 3) above.

The recipe I think is to stay low for a day or so for Apple folks to sort this out.

I have AdBlock installed, that is always the first thing I do. Worked yesterday, and still working (no rendering issues whatsoever), No proxies. If you by "full Safari reset" mean "Clear History and Website Data" I tried that but it had no effect before my restart of the Mac. Why it all works now seems more like a coincidence.

I'm experiencing the same rendering problems, and did your two steps...

Step 1: Issue still exists.

Step 2: Issue disappears in Safe-Boot, but returns after normal restart.

Safari is bone-stock on my install of Yosemite.

In my case it was AdBlock too. Maybe you should try to deactivate all of your safari extensions and try again. 😉

Same issue here. Any workable resolutions found yet?