Beachball for no good reason

[martosprint]

I just noticed today in the tool bar where I have some bookmarked items a weird issue that I never saw/had before. When I right click on one of the items to remove it I get the beach ball and I have to force quit Safari from the dock. I tried it several times and even rebooted the computer. Everything else seems to be working okay and never had this happen before. Also I noticed when I tried to save another bookmark to the bar I also get the beach ball. I am able to right click a bookmark to open in a new tab and that works just fine. It seems the problem is just trying to remove or add a link to the bar is when I get the beach ball. It's a late 2012 iMac which has been running perfectly.
Any ideas why this is happening? thanks for a reply

 

[Fishrrman]

Just as a routine maintenance measure, I'd suggest:
- booting from the recovery partition
- launching Disk Utility, and have it "repair" your regular partition
- do you get "a good report" ...?

 

[keysofanxiety]

I just noticed today in the tool bar where I have some bookmarked items a weird issue that I never saw/had before. When I right click on one of the items to remove it I get the beach ball and I have to force quit Safari from the dock. I tried it several times and even rebooted the computer. Everything else seems to be working okay and never had this happen before. Also I noticed when I tried to save another bookmark to the bar I also get the beach ball. I am able to right click a bookmark to open in a new tab and that works just fine. It seems the problem is just trying to remove or add a link to the bar is when I get the beach ball. It's a late 2012 iMac which has been running perfectly.
Any ideas why this is happening? thanks for a reply

Check HDD SMART. If that's clean, run volume verification in Disk Utility. Also check for operating system updates through the App Store, and ensure that when you shut down/restart your Mac, the option 'reopen windows when logging back in' is disabled (unticked).

If all comes back OK, and the issue is persisting after OS updates/restart, I suspect it might be the RAM. Quote this anyway and we'll go from there

 

[martosprint]

Check HDD SMART. If that's clean, run volume verification in Disk Utility. Also check for operating system updates through the App Store, and ensure that when you shut down/restart your Mac, the option 'reopen windows when logging back in' is disabled (unticked).

If all comes back OK, and the issue is persisting after OS updates/restart, I suspect it might be the RAM. Quote this anyway and we'll go from there

[doublepost=1464801058][/doublepost]Thanks to both of you, everything checked out okay but nothing worked

 

[NoBoMac]

Cleared website data (aka cache, cookies)? I had that happen years ago when history got large. Once trimmed down and the save setting set to 30 days, Safari has been working smoothly.

Only other time I had an issue with Safari was when one of my extensions, an ad-blocker (can't remember which one), dragged Safari down. Switched to a different one (AdGuard) and things were back to normal.