Safari not responding

Safari is not responding when trying to open or quit. It is very slow to open when launching and then if you try to quit I get the beach ball. I have to force quit in order to get out of Safari. I am running on iMac version 12.6.1 and Safari version 16.1.

The iMac is a 2017 2.3 ghz Dual core Intel. I have used Malwarebytes and Etrecheck but am not finding any issues. The problem has been happening for a few weeks. I tried clearing history in Safari, restarting the computer. The hard drive is not full and all other applications appear to be working fine.


Posted on Dec 31, 2022 1:55 PM

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Posted on Jan 1, 2023 8:37 AM

That is odd. As you've tried all the things I would normally suggest, you may wish to try reinstalling macOS (which will reinstall Safari).


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