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I asked this on the Sequoia thread as well, but no one has answered there yet. After watching the latest update on OCLP, and Tahoe support status from Mr. Macintosh, he said a lot of people were reporting issues with Safari 26.1, and suggested unchecking it from updates, and not to install it. My question is, what kind of problems are people having? I have 15.7.2 on this iMac 17,1, with Safari 26.1, and while I don't use Safari as my default browser, when I have used it, I haven't noticed any issues with it. Are the issues only related to non metal, or AVX2 Macs, and can be disregarded since this iMac supports both? Is it something different. Was just curious, Thanks.
 
Greetings everyone

I'm a bit surprised — I just clean installed Sonoma OCLP on my daughter's 13" MBP Late 2013 (16GB). I put a few simple apps (Paintbrush, SuperDuper, App Cleaner and The Unarchiver) and installed MS Office 2021.

In my testing it ran beautifully. Sure, launching Sys Prefs took longer as did switching between settings pages, but there was no UI sluggishness at all. Menus dropped down as they normally do and I could move windows without jagged movement. Safari scrolled normally. Even Microsoft apps (once loaded which did take longer) ran well.

Today, two days after the upgrade and without any further changes to the computer since the clean install, it's as if the computer is running on molasses. Safari scrolling is choppy, moving windows is choppy, menu animations are positively awful. The whole interface has become basically impossible to use.

Has anyone encountered this? I have installed a number of macOS versions with OCLP, including on this machine, and have never seen anything like it. In case anyone has a suggestion what could be the problem I'd be most grateful for your help.

Thanks in advance
Philip
 
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Has anyone encountered this? I have installed a number of macOS versions with OCLP, including on this machine, and have never seen anything like it. In case anyone has a suggestion what could be the problem I'd be most grateful for your help.
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Make sure you have everything disabled for macOS automatic updates in System Settings. Then open OCLP app, uninstall root patches, and reinstall root patches.
 
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Yet another glitch in the update sequence for macOS Sonoma 14.8.2. First I upgraded to OCLP 2.4.1 and then I went to update OTA to macOS 14.8.2.

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Anyone a hint how to resolve this issue?
 
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Make sure you have everything disabled for macOS automatic updates in System Settings. Then open OCLP app, uninstall root patches, and reinstall root patches.
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Thank you very much for your reply. I was actually unable to reinstall root patches because I got the systemversion.plist error, but your reply helped me find Mr Macintosh's video about this which says that one should delete the downloaded macOS upgrade files and then commence the update and abort it.

Because of the missing patches wifi didn't work on my machine, however, and I also couldn't connect it to my phone via cable as an update needed to be installed for that to happen. In the end I followed the comments under that video and decided to commence the Tahoe upgrade and cancel it by clicking the X next to the download progress bar (which weirdly progressed even though I had neither wifi nor iPhone hotspot...). I then clicked the OCLP app's root patch button and was asked to reboot. After the reboot the system runs as it should.
 
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Any news on revised KDK's for the 14.8.x builds? I am still running on KDK_14.7.6_23H626, working fine on iMac 14,1.
Seems like a while for a release.
 
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Any news on revised KDK's for the 14.8.x builds? I am still running on KDK_14.7.6_23H626, working fine on iMac 14,1.
Seems like a while for a release.
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There hasn't been a new version of KDK for a while now. The last one released by Apple is version 14.7.7, the same version as the Sonoma operating system I use here, which is why I haven't updated until they release the new KDK.
 
On my old Mac, I always do a full update, even if it takes longer.

However, I noticed that with Safari 26.1 installed, it now works perfectly. I had stayed with Safari 18.1.1 due to issues.

I think I'm one of the few people who still owns a 2007 iMac. 🤓
 

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Any news on revised KDK's for the 14.8.x builds? I am still running on KDK_14.7.6_23H626, working fine on iMac 14,1.
Seems like a while for a release.
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The latest KDK has just been released, even surpassing the current version of Sonoma 14.8.2.

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Hey guys, is Apple no longer giving Sonoma Safari updates? I updated my Sonoma VM from 14.8.2 to 14.8.3 today, and while everything is working as expected, there was no Safari update, and Safari is still on version 26.1.
 
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I know, and that's why I asked. It wasn't listed where it usually is under the also available section. Typically I'll see the macOS update, and the Safari update. This time, I only saw the Sonoma 14.8.3 update, and Safari never shows up.

Edit: It was there now, when I checked again. It just took a few hours to show up after installing the update. I was surprised because. running macOS in a VM on a Mac is Apple supported. Anyway, using Safari 26.2 in the VM to edit this reply now. Thanks again.

Edit #2: I bumped the allocated RAM to the VM from 8 to 16 GB since this iMac has 32 GB total, and got a nice performance boost in the VM.
 
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I updated to version 14.8.3 along with Safari 26.2, and OCLP automatically downloaded the latest KDK for the corresponding version. So far, everything is fine.
 
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MacinMan said:
I know, and that's why I asked. It wasn't listed where it usually is under the also available section. Typically I'll see the macOS update, and the Safari update. This time, I only saw the Sonoma 14.8.3 update, and Safari never shows up.

Edit: It was there now, when I checked again. It just took a few hours to show up after installing the update. I was surprised because. running macOS in a VM on a Mac is Apple supported. Anyway, using Safari 26.2 in the VM to edit this reply now. Thanks again.

Edit #2: I bumped the allocated RAM to the VM from 8 to 16 GB since this iMac has 32 GB total, and got a nice performance boost in the VM.
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When you have plenty of RAM, it's more than enough to allocate to a VM. I only have 16GB and I allocate 6GB to a VM. It works for me, and now I'm going to run the VM on an external drive with Thunderbolt 3 40Gbps and NVMe, which is faster at reading and writing compared to my Mac's internal storage.
 
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When you have plenty of RAM, it's more than enough to allocate to a VM. I only have 16GB and I allocate 6GB to a VM. It works for me, and now I'm going to run the VM on an external drive with Thunderbolt 3 40Gbps and NVMe, which is faster at reading and writing compared to my Mac's internal storage.
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Well, and in my particular setup, I only have a few minor apps that require a newer version of macOS. So, it makes more sense to run two supported configurations. While the iMac can't go above Monterey as the host, the last supported version I can use supports up to Sonoma, which is enough for the apps I want to have current versions of.

Graphically, the VM, and OCLP have about the same limitations on this mac. So, it makes more since to keep the host as a fully supported hardware install, and use the Apps that don't hit the patched, or virtualized limitations in the VM.
 
I'm still on Sonoma, and next year when it loses support I'll upgrade to a higher version like Sequoia. As of now, the new system isn't supported by OCLP, and I'm not counting on it being supported. My goal is to buy a Mac Mini M4 in 2027, leaving my current 2017 Macbook Pro only for portability when needed.
 
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mib01 said:
I'm still on Sonoma, and next year when it loses support I'll upgrade to a higher version like Sequoia. As of now, the new system isn't supported by OCLP, and I'm not counting on it being supported. My goal is to buy a Mac Mini M4 in 2027, leaving my current 2017 Macbook Pro only for portability when needed.
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Tahoe will be the end of the line for the intel chips, but I have a feeling Sequoia might be the last I run on this machine. After the end of OCLP support, this iMac will run a Linux distro like my older clunkier machines (iMac 2009 - Mac Mini 2011 both on MX xfce). I will probably pickup an older M series down the road.
 
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Tahoe will be the end of the line for the intel chips, but I have a feeling Sequoia might be the last I run on this machine. After the end of OCLP support, this iMac will run a Linux distro like my older clunkier machines (iMac 2009 - Mac Mini 2011 both on MX xfce). I will probably pickup an older M series down the road.
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Using a Linux distribution on a Mac after the end of full support for the system via OCLP is an option. I don't plan on buying a used Macbook with an Apple M, precisely to avoid screen problems. This time I'll prefer a brand new Mac like the Mac Mini M4. I started in the Mac world with used ones, now I want a new one.
 
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Using a Linux distribution on a Mac after the end of full support for the system via OCLP is an option. I don't plan on buying a used Macbook with an Apple M, precisely to avoid screen problems. This time I'll prefer a brand new Mac like the Mac Mini M4. I started in the Mac world with used ones, now I want a new one.
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I didn't mean used - by the time I am ready to buy a new one, they might be up to M6 - M8. I will settle for a older release of an M4 - M5 at a better price.
 
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