Safari and Facebook issues since Yosemite upgrade

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Safari and Facebook issues since Yosemite upgrade

OSX 10.10

Safari 8.0

Macbook Pro Retina Late 2013

Since upgrading to Yosemite, I have been having numerous issues on Safari with Facebook, but not on any other website. The issues are:

- Sometimes (maybe 10% of the time) only loads a few posts in my timeline (as few as 4) and then stops

- Sometimes (maybe 50% of the time) a few pictures are not displayed, but only a little question mark

- Sometimes (about 10% of the time) I cannot click any of the links

- Sometimes (about 20%) I get a Failed to Open Page screen with the message Safari cannot establish a secure connection.

I have tried the following:

- Turned off any extensions

- Cleared the History and Cache (as well as moving the cache.db file for Safari into Trash and then restarting Safari)

Neither of these seemed to have any effect. Any ideas what to do next?

If I delete Safari and re-install, is there some way to keep all my bookmarks?

Posted on Oct 22, 2014 1:53 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 22, 2014 6:46 AM in response to Sstolp

Hi ..

If you delete Safari on a Mac running Yosemite v10.10, there are no standalone downloads to reinstall the app. You would have to restore OS X using OS X Recovery. Better to troubleshoot the currently installed Safari app.

Try OpenDNS.

Open System Preferences > Network > Advanced > DNS

Click + and type:

208.67.222.222

Click + again and do the same.

208.67.220.220

Click OK.

Quit then relaunch Safari to test.

f that doesn't help, try Google's DNS > Safari 5.0.1 or later: Slow or partial webpage loading, or webpage cannot be found

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Sstolp Author

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Oct 30, 2014 4:42 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thanks for the advice Carolyn. I tried both the OpenDNS and the Google DNS settings, each for a few days, but not changes I'm afraid. I've also noticed the problem is no longer only Facebook which is experiencing the issue, but a couple of other websites too. The other websites tend to load if I refresh once or twice, but Facebook still seems to have the most issues. I've had to start using my iPad for that. Very frustrating.

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Answer 3

Nov 3, 2014 6:38 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

This was a big help, thanks!

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belkadri

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Feb 24, 2015 4:23 AM in response to Sstolp

I have been having this issue for a while now with my iMac. Although it is not limited to Safari, Safari seems to be performing the worst of all of the browsers that I have tried. Has anyone found a resolution for this yet?

Thanks.

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