MacOS – Safari on OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 CPU problem

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Since a couple of days I have problems with the CPU usage of my Safari installation. It runs on OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 (MacBook Pro 13" from 2011).

To reproduce it I only have to open one empty tab and do not need to interact with Safari. After a few seconds the CPU usage goes extremely up. Also the fan is mostly on full speed and the Laptop gets quite hot.

But within that situation if I would open new tabs and browse web content it would work without problems. But then when I want to close Safari it hangs. I can only close it by killing its process.

So I tried analyzing it a bit by having a look at the process:

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Here it shows that Safari has 98.4% CPU and a quite huge CPU time of 30:13,03.

I then had a look on what happens inside the process by looking at the call graph, but I did not find anything suspicious (but to be honest I am not a C or Apple expert).

I found some similar articles about Safari CPU problems which are caused by the discoveryd process. But as far as I understood those problems are already solved with Yosemite 10.10.4.

Any ideas about how I could track down the problem and fix my Safari installation?

Best Answer

I found a way to reset my Safari installation this way:

1) I created a backup of my bookmarks:

cp ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist ~/Desktop/

2) I deleted some Safari specific files:

rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari \
       ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari.SearchHelper \
       ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari \
       ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies \
       ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist \
       ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist \
       ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.Extensions.plist \
       ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.LSSharedFileList.plist \
       ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist \
       ~/Library/PubSub/Database \
       ~/Library/Safari

3) Then I restored my bookmarks:

mkdir ~/Library/Safari && mv ~/Desktop/Bookmarks.plist ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist

Now the CPU and the fan stay calm.

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