MacOS – Safari makes os freeze

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I have a Mid-2014 MBP retina 15" running OSX 10.11.5. It runs flawlessly except for occasional Safari freezes. It happens only while I'm using Safari, and mostly when I try to close a tab. I've contacted Apple support multiple times, and they advised me to try a few things, none of which worked. I've tried to following:

  • cleared history
  • deleted cashes in ~/Library/caches and /Library/caches/

When it freezes, everything freezes with absolutely no response, so I have to do a hard reset every time. What could be the problem? How can I diagnose the problem and fix it?

Best Answer

You can try the following:

In Preferences (cmnd+,)

Privacy:

  1. Check: Allow from websites I visit.
  2. Remove all website data..
  3. Prompt for each website one time only
  4. Ask websites not to track me

Notifications:

Remove all

Extensions:

Disable them all for now.

Search:

Untick all and only tick: Enable quick website search

Quit (cmnd+Q) and re-open the app. Let us know if it happens again? :)

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