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interstella

interstella

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Ever since I installed Tahoe, Facebook often loads like this. After a few hours, or in some cases a day, it goes back to normal but still loads very slowly compared to Firefox or Chrome. This is on an M2 Pro Mac Mini. The same things happens on my M2 MacBook Air. Does anyone else get this?

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Yes, for me the fix seemed to be going to Safari's Settings/Websites/Pop Up Windows, selecting all, clicking Remove
 
One more try. Safari's Settings/Advanced, click the check mark for Show features for web developers. Close settings, go to Develop in the Menubar and use Google Chrome Windows for User Agent.
 
That didn't work either :-(. It really is frustrating. I tried every single User Agent but Facebook still won't open yet it works perfectly if I use Chrome or Firefox. I do prefer to use Safari as my browser though.
Thanks for your help...I appreciate your suggestions.
 
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Bummer. There is a setting that is screwing it up somewhere. You are going to have to do some experimenting to figure it out sounds like. I hope you find out what it is.
 
Let me/us know what ends up working. I had this exact problem with Safari and while changing the User Agent mostly worked, I felt it was a work around and not the real solution. After lots of fiddling with settings, deleting everything in Pop Up Windows worked.
 
Searching the problem I ran across this solution: Go to Facebook.com on Safari. Now go to Safari in Safari's menu. Choose "Settings for Facebook.com". Now uncheck "Enable content blockers". The page should become visible.
 
interstella said:
Thanks again. I tried the content blocker and still no joy. It doesn't help that the problem is intermittent. I'll keep trying various settings.
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One disappointing thing about this is I never have had this problem with Safari on my iPad. I do believe Apple puts more effort in to apps on the iOS than Mac OS.
 
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I have a problem with the scroll bar while in Facebook just disappearing and I have to refresh the page all the time. I got so fed up I switched to using Firefox while using Facebook and it started happening there as well.
After installing Tahoe any tabs left open for more than a few minutes the page turns blank and even refreshing the page doesn't bring it back.
If that issue doesn't get fixed then I have a problem starting with Apple. Tahoe has been a disaster all around, from this issue to readability, etc
 
Hi, Interstella,

Before I left Twitter during its most technically inept period within the initial transition to "X", I found that its own cookies or other stored data seemed to be breaking it. So, going to "Settings > Privacy > Manage Website Data…", then searching for "Twitter", selecting all relevant results, and clicking "Remove" actually fixed things (until the next such incident).

I'm not sure whether Facebook's going through that kind of a time, but it's one more thing to try.
 
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Hi, Interstella,

Before I left Twitter during its most technically inept period within the initial transition to "X", I found that its own cookies or other stored data seemed to be breaking it. So, going to "Settings > Privacy > Manage Website Data…", then searching for "Twitter", selecting all relevant results, and clicking "Remove" actually fixed things (until the next such incident).

I'm not sure whether Facebook's going through that kind of a time, but it's one more thing to try.
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Yes, I tried that, to no avail. However, the problem hasn't appeared for a few days so maybe Facebook has done something about the problem?
 
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I deleted the data for both Facebook and X but I just left a tab open on X for about an hour and the memory issue still cropped up again.
I sure hope Apple is working on a fix otherwise I will have to switch to Firefox. I left some tabs open on Firefox to see what would ha[[en and it was fine
 
Having same issue, particularly with messenger within Facebook itself (they've killed the desktop app), 80% of the time won't load chats - tried all suggestions above, no luck :(
 
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