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Has anyone experienced a slow, laggy Google Maps experience while using Safari?

Has anyone experienced a slow, laggy Google Maps experience while using Safari? I've tried using Chrome with Google Maps and there is no problem at all (everything is butter smooth), but the experience with Safari is way bellow Chrome. I'm experiencing a lot of lag.


Machine: Late 2013 15" rMBP 2.0GHz I7, 16 GB RAM, Intel Iris Pro

OSX version: 10.10.3

Safari version: 8.0.6

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Jun 3, 2015 4:42 AM

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Posted on Jun 3, 2015 6:49 AM

Try a restart.


Do a backup, using either Time Machine or a cloning program, to ensure files/data can be recovered. Two backups are better than one.


Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.


Isolating an issue by using another user account


If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.


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Safe Mode - Yosemite

Try turning off any extensions you have installed. If there is improvement, turn them on one by one until you find which one is causing the problem.

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Jun 3, 2015 6:49 AM in response to hgpt

Try a restart.


Do a backup, using either Time Machine or a cloning program, to ensure files/data can be recovered. Two backups are better than one.


Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.


Isolating an issue by using another user account


If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.


Safe Mode - About



Safe Mode - Yosemite

Try turning off any extensions you have installed. If there is improvement, turn them on one by one until you find which one is causing the problem.

Aug 15, 2015 11:10 AM in response to hgpt

yeah, same here. Basically, Google maps is unusable in Safari. *** is Apple doing? It seems to me that since about 2 years the user experience is getting worse with every software update that is being released, this is especially true for iOS devices. Tim Cook is slowly destroying Apple if you ask me. Another example is the latest Music app on my iPhone, it is just so bad, I can't believe it....

Aug 21, 2015 2:47 PM in response to hgpt

I had exactly the same problem, and actually my whole mac was running a bit slow (<12 month old MBP 13" Retina, 8GB ram 2.8ghz i5). If I clicked to any webpage it would hesitate for a few seconds before loading each page. Google Maps was unusable.


I did:

Safari (toolbar) > Clear history and website date (all)

Safari > Preferences > Privacy tab > Remove all website data

Turn off computer.

Turn on, holding down shift. It takes a while and loads safe mode.

Turn off.

Turn on. It turns back on in regular mode, slower than usual but it gets there.

Try it after all that. It fixed it for me and made the whole computer is as quick as the day it came out the box. I guess it's because a mac these days never really shuts down/restarts even when you tell it to. By launching it in safe mode then restarting it seems to reset a bunch of stuff then it's happy again.


Apple... if you're reading this, if you could fix this problem that many of us are having on our $1000+ machines we bought from you, I guess that would be pretty nice.


Best of luck.

Chris

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