Safari 17.5 on my MacBook Pro freezes intermittently

I don't suppose you've found a solution for this? I get the same behaviour and it's only in the last month or so. Exactly as you describe, the page will freeze and be un-clickable/unusable. Often, not even reloading the page will work, it just fails to render (often in the same way). Closing Safari usually works around specific pages but it is usually not long before another page glitches. I've restarted my MBP but this can happen quite soon after opening Safari or sometimes after a day or so.

Safari for (in my experience) the first time is practically impossible to use as it simply disrupts my workflow too much.

This seems to have happened after the latest update(s) to Sonoma, i.e. Sonoma/Safari was working fine until about the last month.

Me too.... but nobody here so far has mentioned whether it's affecting you on other Apple devices?

I have the same problem on my iPhone 14 ProMax as on my Macbook. It's been three or four months on the phone, so I try to use the Reader version if available which works for many things. Otherwise I work with apps instead.

On the Macbook, it's only been the past three or four weeks, since I went up to Sonoma I guess.

I have run into all of the same problems described above making Safari difficult and in some cases impossible to use. There are other anomalies too - always expanding a video to full screen, zooming on amazon no longer works properly, sometimes forms cannot be filled out properly without refreshing, sometimes refreshing doesn't work either. I've had to switch to Brave or Chrome to complete some tasks. Please fix asap.

For me it is only noticeable on my MacBook Pro (Intel, 15-inch, 2018, 32GB RAM) and not on other devices that I've found. As you say, it's really only been since moving to Sonoma that it has become an issue.

No solution yet as far as I am aware, but as quick workaround I've taken to using Command-W then Command-Shift-T which closes the tab and then immediately re-opens it. It sometimes needs repeating a couple of times but saves having to close the whole browser and rearrange windows across desktops.

Hope that helps alleviate the frustration a little.

I am facing this as well. When browsing content for my work, its very frustrating when this happens as i need to close the tab and reopen the page and scroll back. It has been happening for a month approximately.

I have the latest updates. Same Safari version as you.

I also notice Safari being very slow in some websites such as when using WIXe's editor. When trying that with Chrome everything run smoothely. I have no idea if that has any connection to this problem.

Too bad for the "Fastest browser in the world".

Same here. Been going on for a few months now.

• Safari 17.6
• Sonoma 14.6.1
• 16-inch MackBook Pro, 2019

Any solutions to this incredibly frustrating problem?

I have this since like 2 or 3 months. I hate it! Starting to think about switching browser.

I came here hoping for a solution, but sad to see it hasn't yet been addressed. To narrow down the problem a bit more, and something rather odd about it, is that when a browser window stalls, I can open a NEW browser window and that new window works fine, but the old window will remain locked up. It's incredibly annoying.

Try this and get back to me please!

First run Safari with two tabs open! When the Safari page freezes up close the frozen tab only. Then go to Edit and click on "undo close tab". See if your tab is now working. Thats what I'm doing and it starts working every time. I believe it is in the memory stack. It is not loading the whole page and thats why it freezes.

I am having the same issue on my MacBook Pro 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 64 Ram

Same issue here. It’s annoying especially when you write a mail or a message and it just wouldn’t send. Worst OS X ever in general and Safari is just the pinacle of Apple’s poor software.