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>6. Safari improvements I often use Safari on my iPhone and iPad without any issues, but as soon as I open a few tabs on my MacBook Air, it’s a whole different
by ksec 2y ago
>6. Safari improvements
I often use Safari on my iPhone and iPad without any issues, but as soon as I open a few tabs on my MacBook Air, it’s a whole different story. Just three or four tabs and bam, I would experience slowdowns and performance issues in Safari, especially web pages with multimedia content. It displays that annoying significant energy message, and then I’m stuck in a lag loop. This happens every single time. As soon as I switched to Chrome, it loads all the web pages without any issues. I hope Apple finally notices this issue and macOS 16 offers a lag-free growing experience in Safari.
Safari on macOS has been absolutely appalling for the past 10 years. And yet most people dont say anything about it. And media dont cover it.
- mattl 2y agoStrange, I have Safari open on my 8GB Base Model M1 Mac mini with 30+ tabs all the time.
- ksec 2y agoOnce your Tabs go over certain number of active tabs. There are people with hundreds of Tabs. And Safari doesn't do Tab Sleep. Instead it put those tabs in the background as active but low priorities, works well when they fit within Memory and some paging. Stop working when it is above that. Tab Overview will also cause every single Tab to be re-rendered. Video Playing is also another problem especially with Youtube. Having Youtube Tabs opened in the background also causes memory pressure issues. On Desktop, Chrome and Firefox is so far ahead of Safari.