Safari persists reloading web pages

If you have problems opening webpages, take a look at these troubleshooting techniques suggested by Apple.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204098

Go to Safari menu (At the very top right side of your screen next to Apple icon), choose "Quit Safari"

press "Shift" button and while holding this button on your keyboard single click on the Safari icon on your Dock.

Open Safari - Preferences - Privacy - Remove All Website Data.

Open the Go menu with Option (Alt) key pressed - Library - locate Safari folder and move it to your desktop. Restart your Mac, open Safari and delete the folder from your desktop.

You can report problems found with OSX or with Safari here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

However, if here's any remote possibility that a third-party app or utility or anti-malware that you've downloaded and have been using is the cause of your problem, Apple will not be best pleased at you wasting their time. Use this URL only if you run the simplest setup and have found that all other means to correct the problem have been exhausted.

That URL will not return you a personal reply, BTW. However, if you or someone else uncovers a truly genuine bug in Safari or in OSX, then the Apple developers might turn their attention to it and sort the problem out with the next update.

At present I don't see lots of other Mavericks users complaining of the same issue as yours, so it'd seem more likely that the issue you're experiencing is specific to your machine.

Of course the problem will still be there! That URL I gave you is for reporting an issue to Apple, nothing more. They won't be contacting you about any report you send in, neither will there magically be an instant fix for your problem!

If you want to get some technical help from Apple on a more personal level there's a different mehanism you could use. When you click on Support at top of screen at the apple.com website - as you did to start the process of accessing the Community Forums - scroll much further down the screen and you'll see a section called 'Contact Us'. Use that. It includes e-mail and phone support. It's a free service, but for the phone support, for example, it may well be a day or two before you're actually able to speak with an Apple techie. Since this is the Easter holiday-time anyway, the service may be suspended or less-serviced for a while.

Try uninstalling Avira.

Avira Uninstall

You run Avira? On a Mac? Why? Mac's are better off without any anti-malware on board. Get rid of Avira. It's almost certainly the cause of your problem, and it may well produce further operational problems with your Mac in the course of time, as you add more OSX and Safari updates.

Frankly, it was unwise of you to install Avira from the outset.

Try downloading and reinstall the application you got from the App Store.

If you don't use top sites -- edit them all out -- Safari automatically adds frequently visited sites to top sites -- and it refreshes them -- so if you go into a site via a bookmark and top sites refresh that causes a slow down -- when you remove a top site it goes into a list of sites to never set as a top site -- if you reset Safari - top sites - it reloads a set of defaults -- if you don't tidy up top sites - all clearing the cache does is cause all that stuff to reload.

I am having the same issue. Right after the safari 9.1 update - many pages "reload" but never really load.

Then after a minute or so I get the "Safari Web Content quit unexpectedly" This report will be sent to Apple.

Tried D.Cohen's recommendation.

No Plug ins of any kind.

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

Safe Mode - Mavericks

Hi JeanGeant,

I was on apple support chat several times this morning. They had me create a test account and see if the problem persisted. The test account had no problems. Then I logged back in under my usual account and the problems were back.

HMM...

Then I got back into the chat again and they told me to reboot in safe mode. It took a while to reboot. I logged in as usual and safari was running fine. I restarted the machine in normal mode and logged in - Safari has been working fine ever since. I made no changes. Somewhere in the safe mode reboot - something corrected itself - I guess.

Hope this helps.

Jason