I'm having a few issues with Safari, can anyone help?

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I'm having a few issues with Safari, can anyone help?

Hello, all,

I'm having a few annoying little issues with Safari at the moment, hopefully someone can help and it'll be an easy fix, but I'm stumped at the moment.

1. Every time I close and quit Safari it freezes and I have to 'force quit' the app. Not the biggest of problems but it's a little annoying.

2. Once I open Safari back up it reloads with whatever window was open when I quit, even if my Mac has been turned off.

3. Safari is eating up a lot of my RAM at the moment. 'Activity Monitor' is telling me it's taking up between 2-6GB of Memory.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Apr 19, 2015 10:37 PM

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Answer 1

John Galt

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Apr 19, 2015 11:30 PM in response to Scooby Doo's Shoes

 (Apple menu) > System Preferences > General. Select "Close windows when quitting an app". This will prevent Safari from re-opening the same windows after you quit Safari, assuming that's what you want to do.

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Answer 2

Apr 19, 2015 11:55 PM in response to John Galt

That's one issue solved. Thanks

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Answer 3

Eric Root

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Apr 20, 2015 6:58 AM in response to Scooby Doo's Shoes

Try a basic Safari reset.

Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items. Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Clear History and Web Site Data. The down side is it clears all cookies.Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site.

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Answer 4

John Galt

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Apr 20, 2015 9:02 AM in response to Scooby Doo's Shoes

Safari will use memory commensurate with the pages it loads and services it requires. If you think it's using too much even after closing all open windows, or if it continues to freeze requiring a "force quit", write back for additional suggestions.

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Answer 5

Apr 20, 2015 5:33 PM in response to John Galt

I tried a number of things, but in the end I reinstalled the OS. Everything seems perfectly fine and back to normal now.

Cheers for the help.

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