Hi, I am using MacOS Big Sur 1.4. For the past few weeks, Safari is very slow due to beachball. This happens often when I type url. Sometimes I hit a key and beachball shows up for a few seconds before I can type the rest. Sometimes after typing 3-4 letters and beachball shows up. I need to wait before I can type the rest. What could be the problem and how to fix it?
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Beachball when typing url under Safari
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Try turning off (disabling) all of Safari's suggestion features.
Change Search settings in Safari on Mac
In Safari on your Mac, choose a search engine. Also choose to see suggestions, speed up searches on a website, and preload top search hits.
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Thanks. After turning off everything in Safari > Preferences > Search, it became much faster. It is like a new machine!
How come sometimes I still see beachball when using Safari? Is there anything else that I can do?
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Perhaps a stupid question but is the beach ball multi coloured or blue? sometimes I get a blue looking one.