Safari Problems (Slow, Pages won't load, etc)

While Chrome is great it's not a solution. Safari is part of the ecosystem that makes Apple products seamles. It should work.

Interestingly I am in a different location today with a different Internet provider (Comcast instead of Verizon FIOS ). Safari on my iPad works just fine. bizarre.

I'm having the same problem. Chrome works fine so its not my ISP. I reset the browser, cleared history, caches, disabled extensions, everything.

I'm not a fan of Chrome but Safari is almost unusable for me now.

My problem definitely started after the 10.10.3 upgrade.

I've never used Chrome before, but I just installed that. No issues at all. Side by side, I can browse the same sites with Chrome and Safari, with Chrome always getting to the site quickly. Safari is always slower, but occasionally just freezing- and needing further action like described above to continue to make progress.

To my knowledge, no other networked application is having problems except the Safari browser (App Store is also occasionally slow, but I don't think related). For me, it is about 1/5 pages will freeze. The blue bar will start to move across the URL bar. Then just stop. Sometimes it continues to move slowly. I usually intervene by putting the cursor in the URL bar and hitting enter to reload the page. Usually that helps, not always.

Again, no issues with Chrome. Guess my answer is to stop using Safari until I see that there is some fix.

I can't explain it, but I do believe it was a combination of my ISP/Internet connection (FIOS) and Safari. My theory is that when Safari accesses a web page there is some process in the background - maybe related to iCloud? - that's different from Chrome. In addition to Safari, I found that FTP was not working properly on my iMac. Similar to Safari, sometime uploading a file worked, sometimes it timed out. The Safari issue was across devices (iMac, iPad, iPhone) and different user logins. Chrome worked fine on all of these. That was 2 days ago.

Yesterday I had my iPad while at a different location with a different ISP and there were no issues with Safari. This morning, 2 days later, everything is working again at my house including the FTP issue. So somehow Safari's woes and my FTP issues had to be related.

Thanks for this post, because I just checked my Safari browsing and all seems back to normal. I spent a couple hours yesterday investigating. It definitely started after the 10.10.3 upgrade and lasted several days for me. This morning, it's all good.

What the heck would explain the slowness of Safari? For me, the App Store was also slower during that time than now. Other than email, I probably didn't use much else that connected to the network. It's hard to tell if email is slow because it checks for mail in the background. But I will confirm that Chrome was lightning fast during the same time. So it was not general network slowness. It was specific to certain applications. Now all is back to fast.

Maybe the 10.10.3 upgrade has some sort of processes that occur that impact performance for a couple days? That was frustrating, but it's better for now.

Now that you mention it, I did have an issue or two with the App store the other day as well. It was slow and one App I wanted on my iPhone didn't show up in searches, even though it was there.

I am having the same issue with Safari(8.0.6). The pages take forever to load, if at all. Firefox and Chrome work just like Safari used to.

Hey Guys

I think I found the solution, after a lot of search I do the following instruction in terminal.app

Note this commands are only for 10,10 OSX version

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/26616/dns-not-resolving-on-mac-os

Please let me now

Regards

i have been fighting this problem for weeks. Your fix seems to do the trick.

I go to activity monitor and do a force quit on the process discoveryd.

It reloads itself and all is well for awhile, sometimes a day or sometimes hours.

I have not seen any other adverse effects so far.

Works like a charm!

solution above won't help.

I'm almost about to return my newly purchased mac book pro because of this issue. It seems it plagues some users since years and won't be resolved.

I just changed my router completely and tried many many solutions it won't help. The fact that it happens ONLY with safari (even on iOS) should rule our lots of false solutions.

Chrome and firefox are resource hogs with bad performance so they are not really solutions.

I never expected to face such annoying problems with apple devices. Very disappointed.

In relation to my message above: Hold on... I may have found the solution. I will wait 24 hours just to be sure and report here.

Ok, so I desactivated all these settings from BOTH my cable box and wifi router when applicable:

• Firewall
• Ipsec PassThrough(VPN)
• PPTP PassThrough(VPN)
• Port Scan
• Flood attack detection (Ip Flood)

I left "multicast" activated.

On my Mac I enabled the firewall.

This does seem to reduce the rate of pages that won't load.... Maybe safari is so fast that it sends and accept many requests which in turn was prompting the hardware firewalls to block some traffic, which would explain why it affected specifically Safari and not the other browsers. I also seem to notice that the whole web experience is faster and more responding.

But the problem is only resolved to to 80%... I still experience page that won't load, and force me to reload/reclick them to have them load normally. This is strange because if my solution is a fix it should have fixed 100% of the problem. So i'm note sure :/

Anyway try this and report.

Just upgraded to 10.11 on older iMac 2010 with 12 GB RAM. Safari would not load any URLs - deleting the cache and resorting my modem and router (Netgear) fixed Safari. Good luck