![]() And that’s how I’ve been operating lately. So this gets me out of a freeze and to the website page about 70% of the time. Lately, I’ve also found that it a click into some other window on the display and come back to the subject window, it might suddenly load. I’ve learned that, when the Progress Bar is frozen, that if I click in the Search Box and hit return, it can cause a refresh or reload that actually slowly loads and doesn’t freeze up. (3) about 2% of time, start to load, then freeze for awhile, then SLOWLY finishing loading. (2) about 8% of time recently, flash and not even start to load with no progress at all on the Progress Bar, or (1) about 90% of time, start to load and show a Progress Bar of. When I enter a search in the Search Bar, it will: Your article comes at just the right time for me.įor the last +4 weeks, I’ve been having nothing but constant problems with Safari….and right in the middle of a month of internet searches, UPGRADING from Sierra to OS Catalina and upgrading of external sw. Safari needs a shakeup, and serious improvement, so more users don’t go the same way as me. I’m using a pretty up-to-date computer with fast fiber to the home broadband, so I don’t see why there should be any major issues caused by my setup. It is bizarre that Apple’s own browser software does not perform better. At the moment though Chrome is really working for me. There are though some workarounds which I will share in a separate article. The other issue with Chrome is you cannot set it to be the default browser on an iPhone. Maybe I will gravitate towards them in the near future. I know other browsers offer better privacy features than Safari. A Serious Need for Improvement From Apple Even mundane things like moving tabs seem to work better in Chrome. It also does not have a plugin for sending webpages to my Kindle, which I like to do if I want to read an article at a later pint. This does not happen in Chrome, and those same pages work smoothly.įurthermore, Google Hangouts, which I use on a daily basis, can often go wrong in Safari. Not exactly helpful when trying to do research for articles I’m writing. ![]() Those webpages would invariably become so slow as to be useless. I’d regularly get warning messages at the top of the browser telling me that a webpage was using “significant memory” and affecting the performance of my Mac. ![]() Simply put, I encountered too many frustrations with Safari, particularly on my Mac mini. However, in the last couple of days, I’ve abandoned it. It has better privacy than Chrome, the browser I’ve often used previously, and also syncs well across all my Apple devices. Over the last few months, I’ve been using Safari.
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