safari dropping connection frequently

Is this a common problem? It's driving me nuts. I have been using firefox or chrome, but with a new new mac and el-capitan I decided to go back to safari for a trial. It is regularly coming up with this message. I very rarely had it with chrome or firefox. So any ideas anyone? Or shall I just go back and set Chrome as my default browser - firefox runs too hot!

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Sep 9, 2016 8:36 AM

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Sep 9, 2016 10:35 AM in response to alisonfromulverston

Safari - Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues


Safari doesn't load a page or webpage items are missing


Safari/other browsers – Website not loading

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…. 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. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library./Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db and move it to the trash.


Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.


Safari Corruption See post by Linc Davis

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