Constant Safari Beach Balling

[dejayou]

For the past 3-4 days or so Safari has been borderline unusable for me on my early 2015 MacBook 12" running masOS Big Sur 11.2.3. Anytime I try to scroll on a site, switch tabs, and even while I'm typing this post, I am getting constant beach balls/freezes. When trying to Command - Q Safari it takes 15-30 seconds to close the app.

Here is what I've tried so far:

1.) Switching saved history from 1 year to 30 days.
2.) Disabling all extensions.
3.) Clearing the cache via the Develop menu.

None of this has improved the performance of Safari, and I'm not sure what else to try. Like I said, this has just started happening in the past few days. I tried other browsers (Edge/Firefox) and both are working fine. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Taco1933]

I don't suppose you ever found a solution to this? I've got an M1 that has been acting weird with Safari and only Safari recently. Beachball every time I try to open a new tab. Everything else about it is as quick as the day I bought it, so I assume it's a Safari issue.

 

[dejayou]

I don't suppose you ever found a solution to this? I've got an M1 that has been acting weird with Safari and only Safari recently. Beachball every time I try to open a new tab. Everything else about it is as quick as the day I bought it, so I assume it's a Safari issue.

I was able to resolve it by uninstalling my extensions, restarting my computer, and then reinstalling them. Give this a try and see if it helps.

 

[Taco1933]

I was able to resolve it by uninstalling my extensions, restarting my computer, and then reinstalling them. Give this a try and see if it helps.

Yeah, dumping my adblocker extension seemed to fix it. Haven't re-installed yet, but good to know what the issue was. Thanks!