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Yahoo mail is unusable -slowed to a crawl from Big Sur 11.7.6 on Safari 16.3

Last night Apple pushed an update rendering Yahoo mail unusable. It's impossible to even move a current message to a file because it takes minutes, much less attempt to create and send a message. History and cookies already cleared. Not willing to convert to Apple mail. Any ideas, fixes, inputs? Thanks

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Posted on Oct 20, 2023 7:22 AM

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Posted on Oct 20, 2023 7:41 AM

Unless I am mistaken - the latest version of Big Sur is Version: 11.7.10 and there is a Standalone update bringing Safari to version 16.6.1


Keep your Mac up to date


About the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.7.10


About the security content of Safari 16.6.1


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Oct 20, 2023 8:53 AM in response to tranquilcat

To Test this out 😀


System Preferences >> Software Update Applet.


What happens when to ask it to Check for Updates ?


In Theory, it should find any of the newer or Newest Version of Big Sur


If it spins and spins and spins and never finds any updates >>


There are factors:


1 - Like poor Wifi connection


2 - Slow wifi connection


3 - Software on the computer interfering with the download process including AntiVirus Software


Notation: Disabling the AV Software may or may not solve the issue. Removal of the AV Software may increase the chances of the download to perform as expected.


5 - Running behind a VPN which may increase Packet losses or corruption of the download 


6 - If via wifi , there could too many Other devices using the wifi at the same time reducing the Bandwidth to your computer. 


7 - Best Results are via Ethernet Cable to Router


8 - Restart in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal and Try Again using the Software Update Applet in System Preferences


9 - Worst case - Restart in Recovery Mode and choose Reinstall macOS. This in theory will pull the latest version of Big Sur available and commence the installation.

Yahoo mail is unusable -slowed to a crawl from Big Sur 11.7.6 on Safari 16.3

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