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Safari 15 Issues: YouTube Bookmarks Crash Browser, Some Websites Fail to Load on macOS Catalina

I'm having a different Bug in Safari 15 with Mac OS Catalina when I open multiple tabs like my 10 sites I read daily it wont load them in the background it loads them one by one as I click on them :( come on Apple boooo!
 
Safari 15 on Mac looks and behaves more like on iPad OS (of course), in line with the continuous iOS-ificaion efforts which started with Lion 10.7. (and in some ways the macOS-ification of iPadOS).
First thing to do was change the prefs for the ugly tab-colours...

I wonder when the "mouse-pointer" on Mac will be changed into the round pointer on iPad OS.
 
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Opening a lot of tabs and trying to scroll them left/right feels like a classic 68K Macintosh - incredibly slow (on a 12-core 2013 Mac Pro). Safari 14 was nice and fast.

Also, an unrelated tab keeps appearing in one of my tab groups. I keep closing it, and when I leave and come back to that tab group, it reappears!

Seems Apple really jumped the gun on Safari 15.
 
FortCollins said:
Just upgraded to Monterey a few hours ago and my first evening with Safari 15. What in the world is happening? Maybe it's because I'm completely useless when it comes to UX and UI design, but I hate this. I'm even more annoyed by the colors than the tabs — it's so distracting.
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The colours you can turn off. The tabs (now buttons divorced from the content) you are stuck with.
 
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I get occasional crashes when I try to reopen closed tabs with cmd-shift-T. It's almost like a magic trick, except it's not consistent.
 
I have been having to periodically clear my Safari cache to get MacRumors to load for going on 2 years now. Running Catalina on a late 2012 iMac.
 
B4rbelith said:
It looks completely unfinished and buggy. I’m shocked that it got released.
I’m really trying to get used to clicking on a tab, and then having to click and type above it to change what’s on that page. Why can’t I just type directly on the tab? It’s really cumbersome and unintuitive.
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I have no problems with the new tabs and like them. Every new GUI update makes some people fuss and they adapt after a short while. You can use classical tabs if you want.
 
mi7chy said:
Seems to affect M1 more than x64. YouTuber has M1 and can confirm my M1 MacBook Air is affected. I use Chrome so not a showstopper but would be nice to have a functional backup browser.
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For once using an unsupported Mid 2012 MacBook Pro 13 inch has it's software advantages!!!!!!

Jim Lahey said:
Standard Apple these days. Bugs everywhere you look. Too busy worrying about social justice issues and prying into their employees’ personal medical affairs.
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While I agree there are a lot of bugs, do you seriously think their software team are the same team who head Apple's social justice efforts?
scheinderrob said:
good old apple "quality." use a real browser folks.
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While this is disappointing, Safari is a real browser and a very good one at that. Chrome is a resource disaster in comparison, and many don't like giving away their privacy to google.
 
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Can they chill with the toolbar changing colors to match website themes? It makes things unreadable half the time, and it goes against the idea of websites not messing with your browser. I get that there's an "advanced" option to turn it off, but it shouldn't be on by default.

Also, stop preventing uBO from working. This is why I switched to Firefox for everything but my banking.
 
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When you open a new tab and drag that tab out of the browser it crashes its so
Annoying
 
I'm also having a whole other issue where any link opened in a new tab will just make a new Start Page tab. Anyone else getting that?
 
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ponzicoinbro said:
I have no problems with the new tabs and like them. Every new GUI update makes some people fuss and they adapt after a short while. You can use classical tabs if you want.
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If you're happy with it, good for you, but it's a step backwards in my experience. There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to just click on a tab and type; they're adding extra clicks for no reason at all.

Plus there are visual glitches all over it.

I have no problem with change if it improves functionality, and I can adapt to it. I've embraced the changes on iOS, but the ones on Mac are just pish. And the fact that they've pushed it out in an unfinished state on Big Sur prematurely is out of order. I'm a big Apple user, but I'll call them out when I need to.
 
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GMShadow said:
I remain astounded that Safari 15 was even shipped.

I expect this to remain an issue for months, much like discoveryd was in the Yosemite/iOS 8 era until the engineer in charge of that fiasco was fired and mDNSResponder was brought back.
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I did not upgrade to Yosemite for almost a year due to these issues. It was terrible.
 
This is the worst version of Safari I've used in a long time. Maybe ever. Very buggy. It isn't just YouTube that crashes when I try to bookmark, although it is the most prevalent on there. I've gone back to Brave.
 
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