How do I stop the spinning beach ball in Safari extensions?

[chscag]

Bob:

He has the exact same model iMac and setup that I have. However, although Safari has never been the fastest browser, it's usually the most stable which is why I can't figure out what is causing the beach balling on his system.

Perhaps keeping the "Activity Monitor" open when accessing extensions may show what's eating the CPU cycles so that the beach balling occurs.

Beach Balling will sometimes occur when the system gets low on memory and begins to use a swap file. It can also happen when drive space gets low.

Even more strange is that he can use Firefox without any problem.

 

[MacInWin]

Even more strange is that he can use Firefox without any problem.

Not really. He's not going to a website, just a function within Safari, which makes the slowness really strange.

 

[gogreen1]

He's not going to a website, just a function within Safari, which makes the slowness really strange.

Right. Safari acts just fine in websites. What puzzles me is that I get the beachball in the Extensions tab with extensions, with disabled extensions, AND with uninstalled extensions. I wish there were a way to reinstall only Safari.

 

[chscag]

Give this YouTube a watch. Supposedly it teaches how to reinstall Safari.

 

[gogreen1]

Tried it. Didn't fix it. Any other MacOS reinstall I could try that isn't going to delete all my settings?

 

[chscag]

Tried it. Didn't fix it. Any other MacOS reinstall I could try that isn't going to delete all my settings?

Unfortunately no. Anytime you reset Safari or reinstall it, you lose all your bookmark favcons and history. Passwords will still be okay provided you're syncing via iCloud.

Reinstalling macOS clean would be a rather drastic move just to cure the beach balling. I also use Safari as my primary default browser but I do keep Chrome and Brave on hand just in case.

 

[gogreen1]

Anytime you reset Safari or reinstall it, you lose all your bookmark favcons and history. Passwords will still be okay provided you're syncing via iCloud.

I don't mind losing Safari stuff--I can always reinstall my bookmarks. I don't want to lose my desktop icon arrangement, dock setup, and other system customizations.

 

[pm-r]

I don't mind losing Safari stuff--I can always reinstall my bookmarks. I don't want to lose my desktop icon arrangement, dock setup, and other system customizations.

Isn't that what backups can be used for so you can get things back to where you want them???


- Patrick
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