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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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Sep 28, 2015 7:00 AM in response to hgpt

As of Sept. 28, 2015 the problem remains. Slow, laggy on Safari, but relatively quick and smooth on Chrome. My MacBook Pro is less than a year old, with plenty of memory, and all software is up to date. No extensions. Tried the suggested remedies in previous posts. Nothing helps. To be specific, Google Maps in Safari will find an address quickly, but if you try to move around the map by dragging, it lags, and then catches up with a vengeance, scrolling far past where I tried to go. In contrast, Chrome works fine. I'd like to keep using Safari but it's unusable for that function.

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

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