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kat.hayes

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Safari keeps disappearing, not crashing on my early 2015 MBP. I have a window open with about 10 tabs and it just disappears. There is still another Safari window in the dock so it did not crash. When I try to reopen the most recent from history the tabs do not display. When I go to my iPad to see the open tabs in Safari on my MBP they do not display. I just finished an order at Amazon and caught it happening out of the corner of my eye. The window and tabs just disappeared. Anyone have any idea what might be going on?

Thanks.
 
It's possible a bad cookie is taking down the browser. If you know the sites of the 10 tabs you had open, you might try deleting those site's stored cookies one by one and see if that helps. You should be able to go into your Safari settings, under Privacy, Manage Website data... and remove each one. If that fails, you may need to clear all history and site data.
 
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I agree with Darmok above.
Do the "clear all history" trick.
BUT... This may wipe out ALL your stored passwords. Just be aware of that beforehand.

Also:
Try running with fewer tabs open.
Do you really, really need to have 15 open at once?
 
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I agree with Darmok above.
Do the "clear all history" trick.
BUT... This may wipe out ALL your stored passwords. Just be aware of that beforehand.

Also:
Try running with fewer tabs open.
Do you really, really need to have 15 open at once?
You should see my wife's computer. Sometimes it's 10+ tabs x 3 browser windows!
 
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