"Safari quit unexpectedly" repeatedly on base M1 MBA

[acousticbiker]

I have a base M1 MBA and have woken it from sleep numerous times to a "Safari quit unexpectedly" error. I generally have only up to a few tabs open at any given time (and generally nothing out of the ordinary) and didn't have this issue with the Intel MBA I just moved on from, so thinking this might M1 related. Anyone else seeing this and/or anyone aware of a fix?

 

[Maconplasma]

I have a base M1 MBA and have woken it from sleep numerous times to a "Safari quit unexpectedly" error. I generally have only up to a few tabs open at any given time (and generally nothing out of the ordinary) and didn't have this issue with the Intel MBA I just moved on from, so thinking this might M1 related. Anyone else seeing this and/or anyone aware of a fix?

OP I'm sure someone will happily chime in with a solution, but I'm being very sincere in my statement when I say that it's absolutely impossible for a processor to affect your Safari unexpectedly quitting. That wouldn't make any sense. That's a software issue. It could possibly have something to do with other softwares you have installed that are affecting Safari adversely.

 

[acousticbiker]

I'm not a super technical person and, while I agree the M1 processor itself is not the likely cause, I would think the M1 version of Safari could be (especially since I rarely/never got that error with the Intel version and same usage patterns).

One other data point in case it's relevant is that I don't think I remember it happening while actively using Safari but rather specifically when waking the MBA up from sleep (it's in clamshell mode connected to an external monitor) the error window will be there (with the Safari window closed/gone).

 

[obamtl]

Safari has been quite unstable for me on the M1 MBP, despite being blazing fast when it works. Firefox and Chrome have faired better. I think it's a software bug, but I also do notice quite a high level of swap memory use (up to 7GB) when I use Google Suite web apps like Google Drive and GMail on Safari.

 

[Apple_Robert]

No problems thus far for me on my M1 MBA.

 

[acousticbiker]

No problems thus far for me on my M1 MBA.

Thanks, yeah, just to clarify that I'm not a hater - no other consistent issues besides this one and am really pleased/impressed otherwise

 

[sjoerger]

Safari unexpectedly quits frequently on my 2015 iMac running Big Sur but works perfectly fine on my M1 MBA. The only extension difference is the Duckduckgo privacy one is not installed on the M1 so far.