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  1. L

    Chrome Freezes on many sites since 10.12.4

    Ever since I upgraded to 10.12.4, Chrome freezes the entire computer on many sites for about 10 seconds with the spinning beachball/pinwheel. An (unfortunate) example, but there are many others: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump Safari doesn't have this problem. I have tried disabling all...
  2. White Shark

    iCloud doesn't sync Safari-bookmarks to my iPhone

    Hello all, My agenda, notes, and safari-history are all well synced by iCloud, to see them on my iPhone 5s. There is one exception; My safari-bookmarks won't sync to my iPhone. So; What do I have to change? In the iCloud system preferences, I've ticked everything blue, to be active (see the...
  3. mehdiesf

    back button issues with Safari

    Hi, I'm experiencing some issues with safari, and wanted to know if it's common, and whether there's a fix. while navigating in websites, often hitting back button, takes me all the way back to a website with different domain name. Lets say I'm on reddit, then navigate to youtube, and inside...
  4. Etch.bee

    Mozilla problem

    hello all ... Iv got this from digital footprint .... Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14E277 Safari/602.1 And they say ... Each website you visit sees the information shown below which may be used to identify...
  5. G

    Resolved Corrupt Safari ?

    Hi everyone, It's late here, have been working on this problem for day and half time now to post the question , go to bed and try to forget it for awhile. For first time malware in form of ransomware has infected one of the computers in this house. Macbook Air, I don't know much about them I...
  6. E

    Open in "App Store"

    Just updated to iOS 10.3 last night. Today, each time I click on a link in Safari to open the App Store, I get a pop up message asking "Open in App Store". Before, I did not get this message, and the App Store would automatically open. Is this new and is there an option to disable it?
  7. mtstella

    Overheating Mac with Safari, help :(

    Hi all! In the past few weeks I've been having some trouble with Safari specifically. After I start it, no matter which websites I'm browsing, it starts overheating quite rapidly. So, I'm forced to quit it, but I have trouble doing even that - the app does not respond so I end up having to...
  8. SupersonicFX

    Safari 10.0.3 drop down display bug

    I seem to be the only one having problems with webpages using a carroussel for their drop-down menus. I use a 15'' MBP non-retina (2011) and am running the latest updated version of everything. One website I noted that is causing me grief is Intense Lighting (www.intenselighting.com)...
  9. B

    Macbook freezes and restarts 12 times

    So this Macbook of mine keeps freezing and restarting. It's a fairly new machine and all I have on it are Apples software so far. While in Safari, I have seriously had this thing freeze 12 times tonight. I'm writing this from another computer. I have no idea what is causing this. sIt happened...
  10. doubleh87

    (question) opening a certain shortcut in different app

    Hello. I recently bought MBP 2016 but as a previous Windows user for 20 years, there are a lot to learn about :) My default web browser is set to Chrome, and I have a website shortcut in my dock. Is there anyway to open this shortcut (and only this shortcut) in Safari? The purpose of this is...
  11. Johnny365

    Youtube HTML5 (videos/thumbnails/comments not loading)

    I have tried "opting out of HTML5" but it just takes me to a page that shows what Safari browser is capable of playing. This is on macOS Sierra and the latest Safari version 10.0.3. I have also reset Safari (cleared history too) and nothing. I don't have any extensions installed. I have...
  12. T

    Safari cannot browse connected drive

    Hi, I've recently had this problem: I cannot save downloaded file to connected external hard drives, the drives don't show eject symbol and when I click on them, they show nothing. This can be solve by restarting Safari but just temporarily, it comes back after a couple of minutes. I have 3...
  13. You are the One

    Printing from Safari, what is the setting for font size?

    When I print from Safari, either direct to the printer or if I save the page to PDF, the font size is much larger than when I view it on screen and much too large to suit me. Question is where do I tweakedelikedy this setting? TIA.
  14. Nein01

    How do I remove iTunes Store suggestions from Safari search?

    Whenever I type a band name into the search bar, Safari always inserts the iTunes Store result before the google strings that I'm actually looking for. I would like to remove that feature completely, so that I can just hit the down arrow once and press enter to continue my search in google like...
  15. 1

    Safari and app store don't work

    Hi, I have a Macbook Pro Mid 2012 running Sierra. I turned it on today, got the usual chime and startup screen, entered my password to log in and then the screen went black with just the cursor showing. I tried several restarts, reset PRAM and SMCand nothing changed. I stumbled on a thread...
  16. R

    Safari Toolbar graphical bug

    Hi, I've been using a 12'' MacBook (2015) since October/November 2016 and this graphical bug keeps existing. Is there anything I can do without installing macOS again? It's very annoying! It appears sometimes and disappears when I move the cursor onto the toolbar.
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    Sierra Beta 10.12-3 Safari uses 55gb ram & crashes

    Hi, I have a really annoying problem. I have an MBP 15" late 2013 with Mac OS sierra beta 10.12.3 beta and my safari freezes / crashes after one hour of use. When I check the Task Manager it says that Safari takes 55gb of Ram though it has compressed 53gb, do not know what it means but assume...
  18. J

    What causes Safari to use so much memory?

    my Safari Networking process is consuming somewhere on the order of 50-60 Gigabytes, and it's starting to slow down my machine.
  19. R

    Bug in Safari

    So a couple of days ago Consumer Reports talked about the new MacBook and a bug in Safari though I haven't seen details about what the bug is other than something about a button. Anyway in my dev travels I may have inadvertently found it. If you turn on disable cache, and a website your...
  20. TheChemist

    Question: Of all the ad-block filters which should I select?

    hi, I know there are certain blockers which offer a convenient set it and forget it option, whereas other are more granular. I have tried Crystal, Firefox Focus, and Adguard on iOS, and the usual suspects for OSX. When I look at Adguard or uBlock, I am presented with a list of filters to...