Safari 15 Auto reloading pages

[yawarkhalid]

Safari on my Mac ever since I upgraded to Monteray (i.e. Safari 15) has been a horrible horrible experience.

Tabs randomly auto reload. They often auto close as soon as loading and sometimes they just stop all together. It's just absolutly horrible. Im using an M1 Macbook Air 2020.

I want to stick with safari for the low battery consumption. I've deleted caches and history and all that and that hasnt worked it eventually goes back to this state.

Is there any way to factory reset my Safari app like the way it came out of the box wiping all the data in it (Like you wipe app data in Android iygwim)? Without factory reseting MacOS as others suggested which is a ridiculous amount of work to fix one application.

Also, is anyone else facing the same issue?

 

[petvas]

Are you using Tab groups? Does the auto refresh also happen on the standard Tabs, outside of Tab groups? Tabs in a tab group will auto refresh, especially when you select a tab group.

 

[yawarkhalid]

Are you using Tab groups? Does the auto refresh also happen on the standard Tabs, outside of Tab groups? Tabs in a tab group will auto refresh, especially when you select a tab group.

I am using Tab groups. I haven't intentionally observed difference between standard and tab groups. I will observe in standard and let you know.

Another reason for Safari is tab groups. Have multiple work and college projects laid out in separate groups.

Is there any fix to this issue happening in tab groups? It's 15.3 now. :/

 

[petvas]

No, this is the way they are meant to work. At first I wanted to use them even for my every day sites I visit. After a couple of months I decided to use the standard tabs for my everyday surfing needs. I create a Tab group only when I want to focus on a specific topic/task. This is the only way tab groups really make sense and work well. I don't want to have a constant refreshing of my frequently used websites.

 

[yawarkhalid]

No, this is the way they are meant to work. At first I wanted to use them even for my every day sites I visit. After a couple of months I decided to use the standard tabs for my everyday surfing needs. I create a Tab group only when I want to focus on a specific topic/task. This is the only way tab groups really make sense and work well. I don't want to have a constant refreshing of my frequently used websites.

For example, I have a tab group for 'School Project' and a seperate one for 'Job Applications' and a third for 'Coding'. How else am I supposed to use it? And why is Apple dictating me how to use it or else it wont work?

 

[SoYoung]

I know its an old topic, but I'm also come to the conclusion of tab group being completely useless with constant refresh tabs every time I switch to a specific group. After many months I've come back to my "old school" way by creating multiple Safari Windows with multiple tabs on each of them. It makes my workflow more cluttered, but sadly, it works and its all that matter.

 

[outlawarth]

I know its an old topic, but I'm also come to the conclusion of tab group being completely useless with constant refresh tabs every time I switch to a specific group. After many months I've come back to my "old school" way by creating multiple Safari Windows with multiple tabs on each of them. It makes my workflow more cluttered, but sadly, it works and its all that matter.

Interesting. I find that some tabs reload while others don’t. Just curious how does creating separate windows help with the issue?