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Safari keeps freezing

I have the latest version of Safari (11.1) but recently Safari keeps freezing up. It does not respond for a goot 5-10 seconds. I keep clicking on it and nothing happens and it is not on one page it happens intermittently and it is very annoying.


Any ideas?


Thank you

MacBook Air, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3), MBAir 13, MBA, iPad Pro, iPhone X

Posted on Apr 18, 2018 4:30 PM

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Posted on Apr 18, 2018 4:48 PM

You may have a third party Safari extension or plug-in installed that's causing a conflict when the routine update was installed.


Troubleshooting help here > If Safari is slow, stops responding, quits unexpectedly, or has other issues - Apple Support

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Apr 18, 2018 5:49 PM in response to gss2

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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Safari keeps freezing

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