Safari still sluggish

[TopherMan12]

Ever since I upgraded to Monterey Safari has been extremely sluggish and performance has not been good. This was the case on my MacBook Air (M1) and I recently upgraded to the MacBook Pro (M1 Pro) and this is still an issue. Big Sur seemed to be fine. But just scrolling through the threads on forums like this, the browser seems to stutter. Other pages that seem to have a lot of javascript running are slow to load UI elements. Is more annoying than anything else, but it shouldn't be like this.

Is this a common thing for others? Are there any known fixes?

I appreciate any help.

 

[fisherking]

if you're having this on your older and newer mac... could be something migrated over from your user account. you could try creating a 'test' admin account, see how safari behaves there. or copy your bookmarks folder (please research this, am not at my mac right now), but should be in home>library>safari (bookmarks.plist)... and google resetting safari.

i'd try the test account idea first, since... this isn't typical, and you need to figure out what the common denominator is... ie migrated data...

 

[TopherMan12]

if you're having this on your older and newer mac... could be something migrated over from your user account. you could try creating a 'test' admin account, see how safari behaves there. or copy your bookmarks folder (please research this, am not at my mac right now), but should be in home>library>safari (bookmarks.plist)... and google resetting safari.

i'd try the test account idea first, since... this isn't typical, and you need to figure out what the common denominator is... ie migrated data...

Thanks. I was so hung up on this being a performance bug due to the OS update that I didn't consider it being something in my profile. I googled steps to reset Safari and it seems to have worked.

I appreciate you setting me on the right path.