Mac Safari 16.3 Issue

[pacman7293]

Seems Safari is getting worse, I have noticed my own website: triofleaf.com or ifemoralmajesti.com has more performance issues since updating to Ventura. I have autoplay videos on my home page and other pages. They no longer seem to work with Safari. When I clear cookies however and reload the page it does work, but then navigating through the site and going back to home page shows errors / videos unable to play. I think this update has a few new bugs. I dunno if it's running out of memory or what... but Safari has often been troublesome in comparison with other browsers. For example i'm looking forward to using HTML 5 video AV1 codec to save bandwidth and speed things up for users and move on from very outdated old h.264 codec but so far Safari is holding back the show.

 

[Freedom1]

Safari has become unusable in the last few weeks. Websites only partially load and then links don't work. sometimes it will work OK for a little bit, and then, it sputters to a stop — literally. I am logged into MacRumors from Firefox to type this. I am on a Macbook Air M1 with 16gb ram. I like Safari because I frequently bookmark webpages for my media news business and it integrates bookmarks from my iPhone and iPad, but lately, it has become unusable for this. I have reset all my settings to the least restrictive, and cleared history and cache, but the problems remain. Anyone have any ideas what can be done to solve this?

 

[svenmany]

Safari has become unusable in the last few weeks. Websites only partially load and then links don't work. sometimes it will work OK for a little bit, and then, it sputters to a stop — literally. I am logged into MacRumors from Firefox to type this. I am on a Macbook Air M1 with 16gb ram. I like Safari because I frequently bookmark webpages for my media news business and it integrates bookmarks from my iPhone and iPad, but lately, it has become unusable for this. I have reset all my settings to the least restrictive, and cleared history and cache, but the problems remain. Anyone have any ideas what can be done to solve this?

That's what I sometimes see when I use Safari with "Private Relay" turned on in System Settings. I've turned that feature off and Safari seems totally fine. That setting is in the iCloud section, which you can get to by clicking on your picture.

Basically, "Private Relay" will cause Safari to route all of its requests through Apple's servers. If they are having some latency, then you'll be affected. That setting does not affect other browsers.