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Safari running slow in Yosemite

I have 2013 13" rMBP 8gb ram. Ever since I upgraded to Yosemite Safari has been running slow and lagging. When I type text into address bar it takes a while to catch up and for the text to appear. Also, scrolling on webpages is delayed. Would appreciate any help on how to fix this.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 12:57 PM

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Posted on Oct 17, 2014 1:01 PM

Hi ...


Might be a cookies, cache, or extensions, issue.



From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab.


Click: Remove All Website Data


Then delete the cache.


Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder


Type or copy paste the following


~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db


Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.


Quit and relaunch Safari to test.


If that doesn't help, troubleshoot Safari extensions.


From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test.


If that helped, turn one extension on then quit and relaunch Safari to test until you find the incompatible extension then click uninstall.

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Oct 17, 2014 1:01 PM in response to sethok45

Hi ...


Might be a cookies, cache, or extensions, issue.



From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab.


Click: Remove All Website Data


Then delete the cache.


Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder


Type or copy paste the following


~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db


Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.


Quit and relaunch Safari to test.


If that doesn't help, troubleshoot Safari extensions.


From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test.


If that helped, turn one extension on then quit and relaunch Safari to test until you find the incompatible extension then click uninstall.

Oct 17, 2014 10:01 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

After Safari essentially stopped working for me altogether (no webpage would load, not even google.com), I followed all of the advice listed in this thread, but it didn't work. Also not working was the Mac store, nor would pictures in received emails either.


It was only after I rebooted that things started to work again, but Safari is still sluggish, even though I only have 3 tabs open.

Oct 18, 2014 6:47 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Safari was actually giving me the colored wheel when trying to type anything and it wouldn't allow me to input anything into any part of the browser. I did the steps above, including the extensions check (I had no extensions running at all) and it didn't work for me. I had to restart my Mac in order for it to work. Not sure why it did this, either.

Oct 18, 2014 3:07 PM in response to sethok45

None of the suggested fixes are working for me on a MacBook AIr (late 2012 vintage - maxed out build so not the slowest MbA). And I have tried them.

And more. Anything I could find that could conceivably affect text entry in a browser and... nada.


Every couple of minutes, Safari just stops responding for a few (10-15) seconds. (Or it feels like it anyway. )


Happens more often when I'm on a page with a text box but I had it happen one time while in Safari Preferences disabling assorted extensions, and no browser window actually open. (Oddly enough, it hasn't happened at all while typing THIS.)


Very frustrating. Feels like the worst user experience I've had on any of MY Apple devices (excluding hardware issues over the last 20 years) in a decade (I know, I know... I've been lucky. But it looks like that luck just ran out with Yosemite.)

Oct 18, 2014 3:22 PM in response to Andy Stoffel

Safari on Yosemite takes 5-10 seconds to load a page, sometimes more. Chrome running on the same MBPR at the same time loads the same page at once.


I have tried everything including removing the Cache.db file and removing all the website data in Safari's preferences.


I have been struggling to use Safari all day today. This is turning out to be more like a Windows experience.


My Machine: MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), 2.3 GHz Core i7, 16 GB DDR3. Broadband speed 128 mbps.

Oct 18, 2014 4:10 PM in response to Rajesh Kanungo

Well... as soon as I complained about that in a public forum... it stopped doing that.


Could have been turning off Dashboard and turning it back on. Could have been turning off Folder Actions (which was killing performance anyway according to the Activity Monitor) but turning that back on had no effect (yet).


Could have been NOT doing a fresh install of Yosemite. Or maybe should have waited until 10.10.1


Not a fan of hunt-n-peck troubleshooting like this.

Oct 19, 2014 12:41 PM in response to princigalli

When I first start my MacBook, Safari works, as does my Mail with emails that have images embedded in them. Once my MacBook has gone to sleep for a while, when I wake it up and log back in, Safari stops working altogether & any emails with embedded html content don't pull that content any longer. The only solution I have found to resolve this is to fully reboot the MacBook. Clearly, there is a problem with Safari being able to reconnect to the Internet when the MacBook wakes up, even though every other browser & app that uses the Internet is not having any problems getting content. This is a serious enough problem with Yosemite that I may have to stop using Safari altogether and make a different browser the default, which I've never had to do before. Who knows when Apple will take the time to fix Safari.

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