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Safari 17.5 on my MacBook Pro freezes intermittently

When using Safari 17.5 I have a couple of issues.


  1. Sometime the page freezes. You can browse the document, but it is as if the page is pdf. No links work and the page cannot be refreshed.
  2. Sometimes when scrolling down the page, as content loads, when I try to navigate back to the top of the page, it is blank, and I have to reload the page.


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MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 14.5

Posted on May 17, 2024 3:08 PM

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Posted on Jun 4, 2024 2:05 AM

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.

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Jul 22, 2024 11:43 AM in response to 2dareis2do

The same thing is happening here too. Very frustrating that most of the responses are to launch in safe mode or turn off extensions, etc. These things don't help. I don't ever need to shut down Safari (although I have); simply opening a new browser window fixes it...until it happens again.


Would love to know why this is happening. Started after I upgraded to Sonoma.

Sep 19, 2024 7:36 AM in response to ChimmyCham

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.

Safari 17.5 on my MacBook Pro freezes intermittently

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