Can I also commiserate? Not wishing bad to anyone, but I'm glad to at least know I'm not the only one. Extremely frustrating. I'm experiencing the EXACT same thing. I'm certain Apple /Safari developers screwed something up! This only happened UNTIL RIGHT AFTER that stupid update! What was I thinking. I always wait an extended period before ANY update and suggest the same.
(SIDE NOTE GRIPE) Apple did this to my 3rd gen iPad, too with their big iOS 8 update, and it's never been the same with my photo work I do. Apple even tried a hail mary by replacing both my wife's and mine, so I know it's not me.
Anyway..... I already had reverted as a long time Firefox user a while back to Safari so I can have it sync between all my iOS devices and my Macs.
* I'm not (yet) willing to "reset" Safari as I understand - it's like starting from scratch?
* And what was I thinking when I tried to use Time Machine to simply "restore" Safari. You can't! Apple has made all it's own software as an OS component. Safari can't revert back to an older version - at least with that method. What good is Time Machine?!
I do NOT want to call Apple support - it's become SO dumb'd down. I use to be an Apple employee, so I KNOW something's happened to their support.
So what is there to do? Say it isn't so - reset Safari? (NooOOO) Wait for a stupid update fix??