macOS Sierra freeze on iMac late 2009 using Safari

sorry, mine is a late 2015 21.5 inch and I'm here because of the same Safari problem...

Lea

Hi, I have same problem on my iMac 27" 5k(late 2015) with i7 4GhZ, 32gb ddr3 ram and 1tb ssd.

When i log in to ssh when freeze my ram is full 31gb of 32gb.

I hope you can help me

Very disappointing!
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Bergi,

Just out of curiosity and a desire to help, did you try Unchecking the following in Preferences>Search?

Include Safari Suggestions

Enable Quick Website Search

Preload Top Hit in the background

Show Favorites

Bergi,

I just finished cleaning up my iMac Late 2009. I have the following:

Java

Flash Player

Flip4Mac

Trusteer

Silverlight

Google Chrome

It took me awhile, and a lot of help, but I have now eliminated my problems by uninstalling the above..

I suggest you read these threads:

Re: Etrecheck Results of Sierra & Safari

Re: Why is Apple forcing me

Bergi, have patience. There are wonderful people here who will help you if you listen to what they say.

Good luck ! :¬)

Also have identical problem, late 2009, freezes with safari, and scrolling, in my case using trackpad. Chrome no problem - C'mon apple....

Webhead1990, How long have you been running with no freezes? I'm on day 25.

Thanks

a few days no, but with safari, constantly freezes...

onwprivateidaho, look at the above post that I made, the one above yours.

If you have 3rd party adware or malware installed, you are slowing down your Mac, and causing scrolling.

You may have a decision to make, either accept your scrolling and slowdown problems, or speed up Safari by uninstalling your 3rd party software.

If you are using Flash Player in Safari and/or Chrome, you have another decision to make. Either uninstall Java, Flash Player, and Chrome to provide security offered by Mac OS but not able to view some video content, or keep Flsh, Java, and Chrome but expose your Mac to internet vulnerabilities.

I had the problem, I uninstalled, and no more issues.

Webhead1990, How long have you been running with no freezes?

I ask because many on here have offered solutions only to have their problem come back a few weeks later.

2 days. It's running great, and I am happy.

I am not going to make it a problem until it becomes a problem. Why?

Because I do not have Flash, Silverlight, Chrome, or Java installed, so I have Mac OS security. Mac OS security cannot be taken away from me as long as I do not click-on and open pop-ups or stuff in email. Oh, maybe something may happen, but I'll check every now and then with Matwarebytes https://www.malwarebytes.com/antimalware/mac/.

And I don't have Trusteer checking on everything and adding time to what I do in Safari.

So, ClarkDV, I do not expect issues. But, I now know what to do to get rid of issues.

Good luck with you! :¬)

Webhead,

Why? I asked because I wanted to know if your solution has been tested for weeks or just days. If you read over the threads on here about this issue, you'll see many, many people who have also come up with solutions only to come back a week or two later and say that they celebrated prematurely and that the issue had returned.

So a solution is only actually a solution when some months later the issue still hasn't returned.

Like I said, I'm on 25 days and counting with my "solution". Notice the quotation marks, I won't come on here and announce a solution until I'm double dog sure the issue is gone. I do that to help the others who come here. I will try a solution that has been working for a long time before I'll try one that has been working for days. That's just good troubleshooting procedure.

I hope you come back in a few weeks and announce that your issues haven't returned.

It's not a problem of slowing down, the computer freezes, mouse moves, but can't pick or click anything, as others have indicated. Removing chrome is not a solution I'm afraid as it is sometimes necessary.

Thanks

Since I disabled Safari and started to use only Firefox on my iMac mid 2010 I have had no freezes anymore. That's now at least 20 days ago. On top of that I disabled/unchecked all of the items that were mentioned in this flow of comments.

Just want to add, that I've tried all suggestions in this thread with no luck. So I decided to install Firefox. Since then, no freezes. Wonder if I'll get back to Safari some day.