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Safari/Chrome Really Slow
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I've had to switch to Firefox -- Safari and Chrome are unusable for me. Early 2015 13" MBP, 8gb Ram.
So, no... "Safari (does not) seem snappier."
Mail is also virtually unusable. I thought that it might be indexing, but this is overnight and after a restart.
So, no... "Safari (does not) seem snappier."
Mail is also virtually unusable. I thought that it might be indexing, but this is overnight and after a restart.
That's my only real gripe at the minute. Safari is painfully slow and Chrome isn't much better, but I won't be touching Firefox, even with a very long stick!
No problems with Mail though, although I do try and work toward a zero inbox
No problems with Mail though, although I do try and work toward a zero inbox
Are you checking your Network tabs in Activity Monitor? There will be a LOT of data sent and received when syncing iCloud drive for optimise my mac at the start.
[doublepost=1465906053][/doublepost]For what it is worth, Safari is tolerable here while this is all going on, but there really ought to be better load balancing.
[doublepost=1465906053][/doublepost]For what it is worth, Safari is tolerable here while this is all going on, but there really ought to be better load balancing.
Chrome is unusable all together both stable & beta. Safari is a little faster but Firefox seems faster than before. Hopefully this is fixed soon. On a note though this is on my 2014 Mac Mini. On my 2012 Macbook Air, there seems to be not as many bugs & Safari seems to work normal. Both upgraded from El Capitan.
Something I've noticed. When you launch Chrome & look at Activity Monitor. It seems that Chrome Helper is using an excessive amount of RAM. On my Mac Mini the Chrome Helper loads 3 times each using over 900MB of RAM. So it's either an error on Apple's end or Google's code.
I did a clean install on a secondary partition and have had zero issues with Safari.
Chrome freezes up quickly due to the crazy memory use issues mentioned earlier though. This problem seems to affect Chrome-wrapped "web apps" like Slack and Spotify too.
Chrome freezes up quickly due to the crazy memory use issues mentioned earlier though. This problem seems to affect Chrome-wrapped "web apps" like Slack and Spotify too.
Safari was running slow on my mid 2014 MBP after installing Sierra last night. Disabling the proxy settings on my Ethernet connection seems to have fixed the issue though, even though I'm using wifi for browsing. My thunderbolt to ethernet adapter wasn't even connected.
Safari is slow when clicking links to visit a new page, beachball appears and Safari stops responding. Ajax calls work fine and visiting a new page from the url bar also works fine.
Tested latest Chrome Canary and issue is also present so the problem should be on Apple's end since it was working fine before the upgrade.
Disabling Chrome extensions helps since they are responsible from some of the Google Chrome Helper processes hogging the memory.
Tested latest Chrome Canary and issue is also present so the problem should be on Apple's end since it was working fine before the upgrade.
Disabling Chrome extensions helps since they are responsible from some of the Google Chrome Helper processes hogging the memory.
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Same issue, Safari is slow when clicking links...can someone submit a bug report to Apple?
Why not doing that by yourself?
http://bugreport.apple.com
The problem is that my Safari is normal. So, it's hard for me to submit the report for you. You have to tell them which hardware you are using, and how bad is the situation.
Opera and Chrome max out ram usage to the point of being unusable on my early 2015 MB air 13 w/4 gigs ram, safari runs fine, I upgraded from El Capitan.
I submitted a bug report for the desktop/screen saver pane in preferences, trying to select a different background and it's flashing all kinds of strange things, screen saver tab works fine, battery life is surprisingly good overall.
I submitted a bug report for the desktop/screen saver pane in preferences, trying to select a different background and it's flashing all kinds of strange things, screen saver tab works fine, battery life is surprisingly good overall.
I installed macOS on my other computer, exact same 2016 MacBook, and Safari was working fine, so it got me thinking. Maybe I should reset all of safari.
So I did all the things done on the site below, as well as uninstalling Java and Adobe Flash. Safari works great now, so it must have been something from there.
https://www.macissues.com/2015/06/22/how-to-fully-reset-safari-on-your-mac/
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Also made Chrome Canary usable. Takes a ton of resources to load, but ones it loads, its normal.
So I did all the things done on the site below, as well as uninstalling Java and Adobe Flash. Safari works great now, so it must have been something from there.
https://www.macissues.com/2015/06/22/how-to-fully-reset-safari-on-your-mac/
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Also made Chrome Canary usable. Takes a ton of resources to load, but ones it loads, its normal.
I just cleared my cache only & disabled the 2 extensions that I was no longer using & now Safari is faster than it was on El Capitan. Wish Chrome could fix that easy. I even tried uninstalling Chrome completely & reinstalling & it still has the issue so it may be a Google issue. I reported it to Google
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromiu...ck Component Status Owner Summary OS Modified
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromiu...ck Component Status Owner Summary OS Modified
Deleting the plugins using the method on the website was what did the trick for me. Thanks!