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Safari opening websites on the wrong tab
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Doesn't really help, I didn't notice change of behavior after clearing history a week ago and it happens all the time for me.
Haven't seen it mentioned but SMC and NVRAM resets were tried?
I had all sorts of crazy bugs initially after the update to Sierra. Drove me nuts, not sure which fixed it (could have just been the reboot itself) but everything works well now.
Also had extensions break safari before. Ended up removing all of them.
However if I use Safari with a lot of tab for long enough (hours) it will stop responding and force me to close and reopen it.
I had all sorts of crazy bugs initially after the update to Sierra. Drove me nuts, not sure which fixed it (could have just been the reboot itself) but everything works well now.
Also had extensions break safari before. Ended up removing all of them.
However if I use Safari with a lot of tab for long enough (hours) it will stop responding and force me to close and reopen it.
Yeah, that's one thing I've noticed about it. It seems to be worse when my connection is a little sluggish. Though it's not just the opening multiple tabs. Just now I had a Sam's Club page open with my cart all loaded, Cmd-T'd a tab and went to Facebook, then a couple seconds later realized the Sam's Club tab had Facebook in it and the other never did anything at all. Makes no sense and seems to be a really consistent problem.
Happened to me over and over, especially annoying as you can'T just push the back button cause it behaves like a completely new tab, I had hoped this fail would be fixed by now
I too have been having this problem. Only solution is to just wait a bit, which I don't always remember to do.
I'll add my voice to the chorus of people with this problem. I'm running El Capitan 10.11.6 on a 2012 Macbook Pro and I've never installed (or rolled-back from) Sierra. The problem's really annoying and seems impossible to replicate because in addition to being related to my tab-switching speed it's also a little bit random.
I'm getting this issue too. It's the worst if it takes over a tab that has a video playing - you just lose the entire thing and have to hit history, go find it, load it up and scrub to guess where you were at. Fix please Apple 
Seeing the same thing here on El Capitan and Sierra. It has only been doing so for about a month or a little bit more, so I suspect either a recent Safari update, or a plugin. I am going to run Safari without plugins for a couple of days and see what happens.
I can say for a fact that it isn't caused by a slow connection, as it happens both at home on my 50/50 Mbit/s fiber connection (wireless) and at work (1/1 Gbit/s wired).
I often get random beach balls in Safari 10 though, on multiple machines no matter how fast the HD is, and I could suspect that it is related.
I can say for a fact that it isn't caused by a slow connection, as it happens both at home on my 50/50 Mbit/s fiber connection (wireless) and at work (1/1 Gbit/s wired).
I often get random beach balls in Safari 10 though, on multiple machines no matter how fast the HD is, and I could suspect that it is related.
How many of you happen to have a tab open in Facebook at the same time this happens?
It's happened to me maybe three times so far in I-don't-know-how-many months. It's usually when I try to switch tabs quickly after cmd-clicking to open them, too.
It's happened to me maybe three times so far in I-don't-know-how-many months. It's usually when I try to switch tabs quickly after cmd-clicking to open them, too.
Same problem for me, using the most recent published versions of MacOS (10.12.3) and Safari (10.0.3). It can be very frustrating if the problem ends up taking over a tab where I was writing something or filling out a form, as then I have to start it over again from scratch. This problem started happening about a month ago, which seems to be the same time that others started reporting it.
I've had the same issue. It seems like it's related to how certain websites load. That is, if I open five tabs in succession, it seems like the same few sites are always the culprit when it comes to hijacking the active/most recent tab that was created.
YES I have this bug on my MacBook Air and new MacBook Pro also! It seems fixed in the safari technology preview most recent version!
annoying for me... tempted to go back to Chrome Canary... see what the next very soon update to Sierra brings....