Q: Safari running slow in Yosemite

I have 2012 MBA. Upgraded to Yosemite from Mavericks a month back. Mavericks was working like a marvel until I upgraded to Yosemite.I had slow safari, like google.com or youtube froze. Then either back or refresh would make the webpage reload again. I cleared cache and removed junk from trash. Removed lot of documents from desktop. There was a marginal improvement in Yosemite experience.

I turned off WEBGL and Javascripts/Flash.Though some websites didn't open up due to that.So had to re-enable them.

As one of the user here stated to ditch Google search engine, I started using Duck Duck Go(DDG), there was significant improvement in Safari.

My guess google search engine wasn't optimized for newer safari experience, even though Chrome works in Yosemite.

May be as a security precaution apple might be blocking some of Google's search engine's plugins due to breach of privacy or snooping.

Anyways I hope Apple should expedite a fix or update ASAP.

My iPhone 6 calls used to get in my MBA but it stopped getting in MBA.

I looked up into the discussion forum but the problem still exists.

Any of the users experience the iPhone calls not picked up in Yosemite?

My iPhone 5 calls were picked up in Yosemite when I first installed it, but after all the technical support and two re-installations I went through because of the Yosemite-caused problems with my computer, my calls are no longer picked up by my MBA.  If you find a solution, please post.  I think I'm done with technical support.

My MacBook Pro took to Yosemite without many issues but my elderly (early 2008) iMac choked.  Searching the web I stopped the eye candy, cleared my desktop, etc but it was still agonizingly slow until.....I uninstalled Flash Player.    Now responsiveness appears to be on par with Mavericks or close enough that I've not been tempted to kick the screen and run from the room screaming....

I have a late 2013 MBA, and the trouble with safari happened as soon as I upgraded to Yosemite.  Loading of web pages get stalled in the middle, and nothing happens even if I leave it for a long time.  While this is happening, those exact same pages load just fine on Chrome.

I tried removing the extensions, clearing the history, and etc. that was suggested in various pages.  The first time I tired, I had an impression that that took care of the problem, but the problem is back soon afterwards.  I saw somewhere that turning off wi-fi and back on could be used as a workaround.  Yes, that sometimes does take care of the problem, but as you can imagine I get tired of doing that for normal browsing... Just switched to chrome...

That's until I found that I had to update the Adobe Flash player.  While updating the flash player, the progress bar would stop in the middle - at 34%, somethings 35%, etc. I didn't think this was connected to the problem with Safari.  When I tried turning wi-fi off and back on the download progressed -- this is while executing already downloaded Adobe Flash player installer, so has nothing to do with Safari itself.  Apparently, there's a problem in a network component more fundamental than Safari.  Some though it had to do with ipv6, but I have no idea.  Hope this helps anyone.

Too bad that Apple isn't acknowledging the problem -- They must already have an idea that this is a problem at a lower level than Safari, and probably either they haven't found the root cause yet or what they found was at too fundamental a level?  Come one, Apple!

Sorry in advance for my english but hoping however that it could be understandable.

I have a mid 2010 iMac and problems happened as soon as I upgraded to Yosemite that I never met in the past upgrading regularly the OS of my computer.

Reading articles in support forum, I thought at the beginning that it was due to Wifi concerns. Then I tried to apply advices that was given without any results. At least, I bought CPL network devices and I connected directly my iMac using the Ethernet port via Time Capsule. No more results. Then, I deleted my web history and the cache.db file (as explained in this topic), I thought a short moment that it was the solution but a few hours later, I met again and again the same issue:

- safari frozen between 10 and 30 seconds (about 30% of the page loaded) without the understanding in term of actions of what could leave to this issue (sometimes, it follows continue browsing, sometimes after minutes reading articles on the Internet).

- very very slow downloading and sometimes with a failed issue (more especially at the end of the process). I had to try multiple times to download Yosemite 10.10.1 nor iOS 8.1 !!! (near than 2 GB)

After many years on Mac and Apple devices, I have no more the habit of such issues from Apple. In addition of network issue, I had the problem with the java run time message (even after installing again and again the last version from Oracle) and the last one, the impossibility sometime to start my iMac in sleeping mode.

Hoping a 10.10.2 release as soon as possible that will definitively solve these problems. Thanks in advance.

Olivier

France

For me on my 2008 iMac, Safari has been getting slower and slower, but this last round of updates brought it to its knees.  I couldn't run anything without getting the spinning beachball.  I played around with killing off Adobe Flash Player and this greatly improved things in terms of speed, but who can honestly browse the web for any length of time given that all webpage designers are addicted to Flash.  I tried Firefox and that helped.  The Flash pages were all pretty snappy and I didn't get the spinning beachball every 5 seconds.  Now I have moved on to Google Chrome and I don't think I will ever go back.  Safari has become bloated and slow on my machine after this last update, and I don't see any reason to continue using it.

High Plainz, can you share your bookmarks across devises using Chrome like you can with Safari through iCloud?

Hi How are you

Thank,s for yours helping

it's very sad to see Apple turning deaf to these issues.

When Job's was in charge there was quality in the apple products.

It's declining due to subtle pressure from bosses and no time given to poor developers/engineers.

It's just the numbers and dollars for the top gun at apple nowadays.

Extremely frustrated with the Safari and Yosemite experience.

I don't know if this will help anyone but Safari for me was completely unusable.  It would literally take a minute and a half to load after clicking on the Safari icon in the dock bar.  I finally figured out that Safari "Preferences", "New windows opens with" was set for "Tabs for favorites".  This must have happened after updating to Yosemite. So when I launch Safari, it was opening every single bookmark as a tab.  I did see all the bookmarks listed across the top (where the tabs are) but thought that was the "Bookmark Bar".  It wasn't.  They were separate tabs for everything I had in bookmarks.  I changed the preferences "New windows open with" to "Homepage" and now Safari launches as smooth as Firefox or Chrome.  And doesn't swill an entire 1.5G of memory when launched.  It opened so many tabs when it started, and swilling so much memory, that everything mouse click would take forever.  Including closing Safari when I gave up on trying to use it.  I don't know if this has already been mentioned yet or if this was unique to me.  But it solved all my Safari performance problems so I thought I would share in the hopes it will help someone.

I have the same problem with my safari. It freezes randomly during browsing and I have tried every possible way to fix it as suggested by other, until I tried to disable the JavaScript in the Safari setting. The problem never appeared since. but it's almost impossible to keep the JavaScript turned off for daily web browsing. The same problem did not occur for either Chrome or Firefox, so I figured it must be the Safari thing.

Come on Apple!!

I have Adblock extension in Safari. I was wondering if it is possible that the Adblock extension could slow the Safari? I had it in my browser and I just recently removed it. I will see if this is a contributing problem.

so it was "new tab opens with" top sites causing tabs opening with a second delay. happy it's solved, but pity I can't use top sites like this. hope it helps to someone.

Just chiming in that the same thing happens to me since I upgraded to Yosemite.

I have a late 2009 iMac w/8GB of RAM. The machine runs well as soon as it's started, but putting it to sleep definitely screws things up. When I wake it up I get the beachball for several minutes. Then, Safari is glacially slow; typing is delayed by 1-2 seconds per key stroke. Pages load very, very slowly. The only solution to date has been to restart.

I will try a few of the tips here (switching out Google for Bing, changing the new page opens with, to blank rather than Top sites, and report back.

I had been doing this, with short term success, but problem returns shortly.  The following seems to have solved it permanently, particularly if you have multiple user accounts:

1. Do everything described above.

2.Quit Safari

3. Restart Mac. Check:  Do not open windows on restart.

4. After restart, do not open Safari, yet.

5. In root account: empty trash

6. switch to user account

7. empty trash

8 Now start Safari

worked for me!