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Safari doesn't work properly

I think I've figured it out!

Safari hanged today, so I fired up Console.app again and started streaming. This time, I noticed quite a few Time Machine errors. Failing to mount the disk, failing to find the resource, etc. I checked the menu bar, and sure enough, Time Machine said "Looking for backup disk ..."

I let it continue without intervention.

Eventually, it found the disk. As soon as it changed from "Looking for backup disk ..." to "Connecting to backup disk ...", Safari loaded the page.

My Time Machine is via a Time Capsule (last generation). Without verifying, I hypothesize the HDD had gone to sleep, and it took a minute to spin it up and connect, during which time Safari stopped working. By any chance, do you have a similar setup?
 
Via another thread I was able to do a clean, fresh installation of Ventura, V13.0.1, onto an external SSD, along with migrating all my apps, settings, etc. from my M1 Mac Mini internal SSD running Monterey (V12.6.1). Able to boot the Mini from that external SSD, and am now in my second day of testing. All is going well, and mainly been running Thunderbird and Brave. I jut tried Safari, and it works fine (and surprisingly is fast!).
 
Cinder6 said:
I think I've figured it out!

Safari hanged today, so I fired up Console.app again and started streaming. This time, I noticed quite a few Time Machine errors. Failing to mount the disk, failing to find the resource, etc. I checked the menu bar, and sure enough, Time Machine said "Looking for backup disk ..."

I let it continue without intervention.

Eventually, it found the disk. As soon as it changed from "Looking for backup disk ..." to "Connecting to backup disk ...", Safari loaded the page.

My Time Machine is via a Time Capsule (last generation). Without verifying, I hypothesize the HDD had gone to sleep, and it took a minute to spin it up and connect, during which time Safari stopped working. By any chance, do you have a similar setup?
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Oh strange. I don't use Time Machine, though. I just had a page hang today and did not see the same processes in my console.app. I'll keep that handy and look for patterns on my end.
 
Hm. Interesting. I experienced it again today, and again with concurrent Time Machine errors. It could easily be coincidence. To test, I've disabled Time Machine.

It's worth noting that these mach errors seem to happen every time Safari makes a request, so it might yet be a red herring.
 
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As of two days ago, Safari will not properly load Instagram

The sidebars will appear but nothing will show up in the feed, it is just blank - I have deleted cache, deleted website data, cleared history - even restarted Mac - still, IG will not load the feed

IG works fine in Chrome and Brave but, I prefer using Safari

Anyone else experiencing this? Fix?
 
ChromeCrescendo said:
As of two days ago, Safari will not properly load Instagram

The sidebars will appear but nothing will show up in the feed, it is just blank - I have deleted cache, deleted website data, cleared history - even restarted Mac - still, IG will not load the feed

IG works fine in Chrome and Brave but, I prefer using Safari

Anyone else experiencing this? Fix?
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Try disabling limit IP address tracking under network preferences and report back.
 
Hello,

Same issue for me since upgrading to Ventura.
Now that I have found this post, I know that disabling "limit IP address tracking" can fix it, I confirm.
Weird thing is that as soon as I disable it, site loads but I can enable it back and it still works...for a certain time before the problem is coming back.

For info I am also using pi-hole on my network.
 
We need to find a common pattern here. For those that are having this issue and find this thread, when a site refuses to load, open console.app and start streaming. Let’s see if there is a common process or error that each of us can see at the time Safari stalls.
 
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Update: In the week since I disabled Time Machine, Safari has not hanged on me.
 
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