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For me - it works properly on spotty connections. I have fast, but unreliable internet that drops connection few times an hour and Safari and Firefox are almost

For me - it works properly on spotty connections. I have fast, but unreliable internet that drops connection few times an hour and Safari and Firefox are almost unusable - when connection drops for just a few seconds they cannot open many websites for up to 5 minutes (reddit, google and youtube among many others; hacker news is one of the few that work all the time). Chromium based browsers do not have that issue, I used to use Vivaldi but temporarily switched to Safari as I wait for ARM build of Vivaldi and I am constantly frustrated by that issue. I have tried debugging it but got nowhere, it seems to be system wide issue as some 3rd party apps exhibit this behaviour too (for example live streaming through IINA or Skype) while others not (Electron based apps usually work fine). Recently switched to new M1 Macbook and it happens on it too.

LeoPanthera 6y ago
I wonder if this is a DNS issue. Are the browsers that work ignoring the system DNS servers? Perhaps using DoH?
- terramex 6y ago
  This was my first idea, I tried setting DNS to 8.8.8.8, tried 1.1.1.1, tried others, tried setting them in Network Setting, tried on router, tried sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder. I can ping those faulty websites during Safari downtime without issue, but somehow the browser does not even try opening the website (Timeline Recording in Safari shows no Network Requests). It looks like macOS is caching something somewhere and when that cache expires it starts to work again. Emptying Safari caches does not help and I don't know if there is any way to purge all system networking caches. Chromium based browsers certainly ignore something, it might be DNS related but I'm out of concrete ideas what exactly to change.